Contested Terrain

by Edwards, Richards

• ISBN13: 9780465014132
• ISBN10: 0465014135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-07-06
• Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

The controversial study by a young radical economist of the transformation of the workplace-- where today impersonal bureaucracies legitimate hierarchies and enhance the employer's control over the worker.

Table of Contents

Preface
Three Faces from the Hidden Abode	p. 3
The Personal Touch: Competitive Capitalism and the Simple Forms of Control	p. 23
Running Full: the Breakdown of Competition	p. 37
Until the Battle Is Fairly Won: the Crisis of Control in the Firm	p. 48
Seeing the World: Corporations in Monopoly Capitalism	p. 72
Experiments, Beginnings, and Failures	p. 90
Technical Control: an All-Around Adjustor and Equalizer	p. 111
Bureaucratic Control: Policy No. 1.1	p. 130
Labor Re-Divided, Part I: Segmented Labor Markets	p. 163
Labor Redivided, Part Ii: the Fractions of the Working Class	p. 184
Capitalism or Democracy? the Contradictions of Modern Control	p. 200
Appendix	p. 217
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 253
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