Fairfields. A study of industrial change
Details:
- Author(s) Alexander, Kenneth J W, & Carson L Jenkins
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1970
- Pages 285pp
- Publisher Allen Lane Penguin
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account of the Fairfield 'Experiment' to rescue the Fairfield shipyard from closure, based on extensive interviews with the parties involved - management and labour. Deals with background to the collapse of the businesses, the new structure introduced, changes in management and labour practices, etc. Has chapters: 'Background to the Fairfields experiment and the research'; 'Shipyard economics'; 'Management - reconstruction and problems'; 'Decision making at board level'; 'Labour relations 1 - attitudes, communications, institutions'; 'Labour relations 2 - beginnings of productivity bargaining, the ASB agreement'; 'Labour relations 3 - disputes and productivity bargaining'; 'Labour relations 4 - job evaluation, progress towards stability, overall assessment'; 'Training'; 'Productivity'; 'Evaluating the experiment'