Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority

James R. Zetka, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Sloanism as a System of Market and Shop-Floor Regulation 1. Sloanist Market Regulation2. Sloanist Labor Regulation Part II. Ideal Types Linking Nonindustrialized Militancy, Work Organization, and Systems of Market Regulation 3. Work Organization and Work-Group Solidarity4. Evidence Supporting the Solidary Work-Group Thesis5. The Market/Shop-Floor Conjunctures Part III. The History of Market- and Shop-Floor Regulation in the Postwar Automobile Industry 6. The Skittish Emergence of a Hegemonic Order, 1946-19527. Bursting Two Seams in the Early Hegemonic Order: Market Breakdown and Shop-Floor Response, 1953-19588. Repairing the Seams of the Hegemonic Order: State-Inspired, Sloanist-Regulated Market Relations, 1959-19739. Repairing the Seams of the Hegemonic Order: Labor Process Dualism, 1959-197310. Toward a General Theory of Postwar Industrial Development Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

"This book is important for students of industrial sociology and for labor historians. Zetka has created an original data base and has analyzed it perceptively. The author, a sociologist, has solidly grounded himself both in the literature of the firm and in the literature of the labor movement in the U.S. auto industry. Consequently, his sociological paradigm is credible and helps us understand how the most autonomous production workers resisted the worst effects of the post-World War II speedup for twenty-five years." — Robert Asher, University of Connecticut"This is much better than anything I have read on either the management-and-market side or the labor-relations and strike-militancy side." — Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University