Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor

by William Lazonick

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674154169
• ISBN13: 9780674154162
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"