The British Worker Question (1986) examines the productivity of British workers drawing upon a wide range of management trade union and other sources and spanning the traditional preserves of several other areas and disciplines – economic history industrial administration industrial relations and Marxism. It criticises much earlier research for its lack of a grounded sociological analysis of both workers and managements and for its lack of detailed attention to how goods and services are actually produced. The book accords a central place in its analysis of workers and productivity to the role of social organisation and management matters which both the orthodox and Marxist traditions neglect. |The British Worker Question A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing
