Linden, Marcel van der
(ed.)
Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 16
Número de páginas: 353 págs.
Fecha de edición: 04-07-2023
EAN: 9783111082356
ISBN: 978-3-11-108235-6
Precio (sin IVA): 27,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 28,55 €
Between working men and women (which may include “free” wage earners, chattel slaves, indentured labourers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, and many others) and those employing them, there has always been a constant – mostly silent but sometimes overt – struggle concerning employers’ discretionary power and over the interpretation of formal and informal rules. There is a constantly shifting frontier of control, that is, an ongoing struggle for control in the workplace, with managers and supervisors trying to increase their power over their subordinates, and their subordinates, in reaction, trying to maintain and increase their relative autonomy. The detailed case studies in this volume span three centuries and cover different parts of the world.