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The worker and the job : coping with change

Title
The worker and the job : coping with change / [edited by Jerome M. Rosow].
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1974]

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Additional Authors
  • Rosow, Jerome M.
  • American Assembly.
Description
x, 208 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Monographic compilation of articles on employees attitudes towards working conditions in the USA - examines the causes and economic implications (low productivity, increasing absenteeism and strikes) of decreasing job satisfaction, and discusses the responsibility of governments, trade unions and employers for reconciling profit-making with quality of working life, etc. Statistical tables.
Series Statement
A Spectrum book
Uniform Title
Spectrum book
Subject
  • Working class > United States > Congresses
  • Job satisfaction > Congresses
  • Job satisfaction
  • Working class
  • Arbeitszufriedenheit
  • Arbeidswaardering
  • Arbeidsomstandigheden
  • employees attitude
  • working conditions
  • economic implication
  • productivity
  • absenteeism
  • strike
  • job satisfaction
  • government
  • trade union
  • employer
  • profit
  • quality of working life
  • statistical table
  • Job satisfaction > United States > Congresses
  • Organizational change > United States > Congresses
  • attitude des salariés
  • conditions de travail
  • conséquences économiques
  • productivité
  • absentéisme
  • grève
  • satisfaction au travail
  • gouvernement
  • syndicat
  • employeur
  • qualité de la vie de travail
  • tableau statistique
  • actitud de los trabajadores
  • condiciones de trabajo
  • consecuencias económicas
  • productividad
  • ausentismo
  • huelga
  • satisfacción en el trabajo
  • gobierno
  • sindicato
  • empleador
  • utilidad
  • calidad de la vida de trabajo
  • cuadros estadísticos
  • United States
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • At head of title: The American Assembly, Columbia University.
  • Background papers for the 43d American Assembly, Arden House, Harriman, N.Y., Nov. 1973.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Jerome M. Rosow -- Part one. An overview -- The meaning of work / Daniel Yankelovich -- The changing American economy and the labor force / Eli Ginzberg -- Part two. Contemporary issues -- Workers : attitudes and adjustments -- Unions : a new role? / Agis Salpukas -- Economic effects : reviewing the evidence / Peter Henle -- Part three. New horizons -- Innovative restructuring of work / Richard E. Walton -- Policy implications and future agenda / Sam Zagoria.
ISBN
  • 0139653503
  • 9780139653506
  • 0139653694
  • 9780139653698
  • 0139653696 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
74000765
OCLC
  • ocm00803711
  • 803711
  • SCSB-2022166
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library