More with Less : Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1: Introduction -- 'A Sign of the Times' -- The Issues of Post-Fordism and Post-Industrialism -- The Study: Genealogy, Design, Accident, and Politics -- 2: Market Preliminaries: Product and Labour Markets in the Potash and Uranium Industries -- Use-Values and Exchange-Values: Markets and Prices -- The Labour Markets -- Summary -- 3: Corporate Cultures of Employment I: Two Traditional Firms -- Corporate Cultures and the Management of Workers -- PCS Inc.: Fordism and Radically Marketized Industrial Relations -- Cameco and Radically Spatialized Industrial Relations -- 4: Corporate Cultures of Employment II: Two Post-Fordist Firms -- Central Canada Potash: Elements of a Passive Post-Fordism -- Agrium and the Ethic of Continuous Improvement -- Reprise -- 5: The Labour Process -- The Labour Processes -- Labour Process Theory -- Some Evidence on Skill and Related Matters -- Conclusions -- 6: Production Politics at Five Mine Sites -- Control and Conflict at the Mines -- Production Politics and the Work Environment -- Conclusions -- 7: Final Reflections -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Explores the changing character of industrial relations and labour processes in two staple industries, potash and uranium mining, through an innovative case-analytic approach that compares the managerial strategies used by five transnational firms.

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