SOSC 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Scientific Management, Strike Action, United Automobile Workers
3 Feb 2017
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Work stoppage: stop doing work, can be temporary, simple form of protest. Work-to-rule: workers will do only tasks that are in the contract. Legal/institutionalized: process set up by government stating when you can strike and when you can"t. Wild/cat: regardless of what is legal, you go on strike anytime. Fordism: various tasks reduced to smaller tasks, so you can increase production. Assembly-line methods production of cheap, uniform commodities in high volume. Winning employee loyalty with good wages and a reduced work week. Initially intolerant of unionism or employee participation forced to recognize uaw. Assembly-line system - constantly moving conveyor belt and minute division of labour. Delivered just-on-time parts and assemblies with precise timing. Reduced time to produce a complete chassis from 728 minutes to 93 minutes. Paid workers a minimum wage of a day, more than double the average for the motor industry at that time,
