New Forms of Work Organization: The Challenge for North American Unions

by Tom Rankin and Thomas Donald Rankin

Taylorism has been the dominant mode of organizing paid work since early in the twentieth century. Tom Rankin argues that industrial unionism is inextricably linked to Taylorism, and Taylorism is breaking down. In its place is developing a new paradigm of organization. If unions are to survive and prosper they will have to develop a form of unionism better suited to the new paradigm.
Rankin uses a socio-technical systems framework to analyse the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802073980
• ISBN13: 9780802073983
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"