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Daniel B Cornfield
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Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations

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AuthorDaniel B Cornfield
PublisherSpringer
PublishedApr 15 2014
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139781461290186
Dimensions10 X 7 X 0.8 inches
Weight 1.49 pounds
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CategoriesPolitical Science > Labor & Industrial Relations
LanguageEnglish

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Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations contributes significantly to an important subject. Technological change is one of the most powerful forces transforming the American industrial relations In fact, the synergistic relationships between technology and indus- system. trial relations are so complex that they are not well or completely understood. We know that the impact of technology, while not independent of social forces, already has been profound: it has transformed occupations, creating new skills and destroying others; altered the power relationships between workers and managers; and changed the way workers learn and work. Tech- nology also has made it possible to decentralize some economic activities out of large metropolitan areas and into small towns, rural areas, and other coun- tries. Most important, information technology makes it possible for interna- tional corporations to operate on a global basis. Indeed, some international corporations, especially those based in the United States, are losing their national identities, detaching the welfare of corporations from that of particu- lar workers and communities. Internationalization, facilitated by information technology, has trans- formed industrial relations systems. A major objective of the traditional American industrial relations system was to take labor out of competition.

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Daniel B Cornfield is professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and the winner of Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award and elected member, Sociological Research Association and Fellow of Labor and Employment Relations Association.

Over the last half-century, the transition from manufacturing toward a two-tier service economy has been accompanied by the individualization of risk and sharpening income inequality. These trends have diminished societal capacity for addressing the marginalization of social and cultural minorities, and for realizing inclusive, diverse, democratic communities.

I am presently engaged in two research projects. The first is a book project on how pre- and post-movement biographical and occupational trajectories of 1960-era Nashville civil rights activists, trained in non-violence in movement workshops, contributed to the continued mobilization of the civil rights movement and the diffusion of movement messages of non-violence and social integration. This is a collaborative project with Professors Larry Isaac and Dennis Dickerson and the Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr.

The second project—“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policies and Practices in Local Arts Agencies in the United States”—addresses organizational and contextual determinants of variations in DEI grantmaking policies and practices across more than 500 U.S. local arts agencies. The project is conducted in collaboration with Americans for the Arts and the Vanderbilt University Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Source: Vanderbilt University

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