Management Divided Contradictions of Labor Management

by Vidal, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780198795278
• ISBN10: 0198795270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Matt Vidal, Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. He is author of Organizing Prosperity (with David Kusnet) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (with Paul Prew, Tomás Rotta and Tony Smith) and Comparative
Political Economy of Work (with Marco Hauptmeier). He has published over twenty articles or book chapters on work, human resource management, employment relations, labor markets, comparative political economy, and social theory. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

I. The Problem
1. The Problem of Labor Management
2. Lean Management and Employee Involvement
II. Theory
3. A Theory of Organizational Political Economy
III. Analysis
4. The Postfordist Field in American Manufacturing
5. Four Approaches to Lean Production
6. Routine Politics of Production I: Quality Not Quantity
7. Routine Politics of Production II: The Workforce Contradiction
8. Routine Politics of Production III: The Management Contradiction
9. Lean Workplace Regimes: Valorization Logics and Organizational Logics
IV. Conclusion
10. Capitalist Management and Routine Inefficiency