Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at AT&T

Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at AT&T
ISBN-10
0791412733
ISBN-13
9780791412732
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
1993-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Steven Peter Vallas

Description

This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Vallas reveals the mechanisms that enable advanced capitalist firms to achieve and maintain control over the workers they employ. He demonstrates that the spread and integration of automated technologies place lower level human labor in positions of declining power. The new regime does not deskill workers and need not lead toward what some have called electronic sweatshops. Nevertheless, Vallas concludes that increasing managerial control over production poses a major challenge to those who advocate labor participation in the management of American industries.

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