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North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  March, 1997  by Amberg, Stephen

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Stephen Amberg, The University of Texas at San Antonio

The transformation of American governance has been stalemated in one area central to capitalist economies, namely, employment relations. A possible reason is that the dominant labor governance mechanism dating from the New Deal is an industrial relations system that is permissive of private ordering among contending interests, and the large-scale management-initiated changes of recent years have undermined the bargaining position of organized labor. Thus, because employers are getting what they want and unions have collapsed as ...

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