1st Edition
The British Worker Question A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing
Part 1. The Mould of Opinion 1. Labour Productivity, Ideological Divisions and the Division of Labour in the Social Sciences 2. British Workers, ‘Attitudes’, ‘Effort’ and the Economists Part 2. Into Detail: Some Comparative Evidence Re-examined 3. British Workers in the World of Comparative Statics (1) 4. British Workers in the World of Comparative Statics (2) Part 3. Into Context: Productivity, Productiveness and Social Organisation 5. ‘The Difficulty’ Reconsidered (1): Quantity, Quality, and the Measurement of Management and ‘Men’ 6. ‘The Difficulty’ Reconsidered (2): Different Quantities, and Another Side to the Quality of Labour 7. ‘The Difficulty’ Reconsidered (3): The Social Organisation of Production and the British Context 8. ‘The Difficulty’ Reconsidered (4): A Closer Look at the Social Organisation of Production in Britain Part 4. The Difficulties Resolved? 9. Enter Mrs Thatcher: The ‘Fear and Anxiety’ Syndrome 10. The New ‘Realism’ and Reality: Workers and Management 11. Productivity, Productiveness and Myopia in Britain Today. Three Commentaries on Productivity and the Conventional Wisdom
Biography
Theo Nichols
