Manufacturing resistance: Rationalizing the irrationality of managerial control on the shop floor in a US medical electronics factory

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Devinatz, Victor G ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor process; Managerial control; Workplace resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847648146     PISSN: 08927545     EISSN: 15733378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10672-006-9028-5     Document Type: Article

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