Table of Contents:
  • 1. Basic issues concerning industrial conflict
  • Problems and viewpoints / the Editors
  • The natural history of the strike / Arthur M. Ross
  • Constructive aspects of industrial conflict / Robert Dubin
  • Industrial harmony as a goal / George C. Homans
  • 2. Roots of industrial conflict
  • a. Motivational analysis
  • Human motivations underlying industrial conflict / Arthur Kornhauser
  • Satisfactions and deprivations in industrial life / Daniel Katz
  • b. Organization and leadership of groups in conflict
  • The labor union as an organization / Joel Seidman
  • Labor unions and workers' rights in jobs / Solomon Barkin
  • Internal conflict and labor-union solidarity / Lloyd H. Fisher and Grant McConnell
  • The labor leaders and the power elite / C. Wright Mills
  • The corporation as an organization / Neil W. Chamberlain
  • Bureaucratization in industry / Reinhard Bendix
  • The role of supervision / Melville Dalton
  • c. Social and economic influences
  • The interindustry propensity to strike- an international comparison / Clark Kerr and Abraham Siegel
  • Industrial conflict and business fluctuations / Albert Rees
  • Occupational structure and industrial conflict / Wilbert E. Moore
  • Social structure and power conflict / Herbert Blumer
  • Industrial conflict and public opinion / Daniel Bell
  • Ideologies and industrial conflict / Philip Taft
  • 3. Dealing with industrial conflict
  • a. Accommodating to conflict
  • Collective bargaining and American capitalism/ Frederick H. Harbison
  • Grievance negotiation / Van D. Kennedy
  • Mediation and fact finding / Edgar L. Warren
  • Arbitration / Irving Bernstein
  • b. Efforts to remove sources of conflict
  • Basic employment relations / Charles A. Myers
  • Wage administration and production standards / Edward R. Livernash
  • Work methods, working conditions, and morale / Charles R. Walker
  • Union-management cooperation / Ernest Dale
  • Group dynamics in the industrial situation / Mason Haire
  • Recognition and utilization of employees' abilities / Edward T. Raney
  • Social-security legislation and industrial conflict / William Haber
  • c. Social control of industrial conflict
  • Social control of industrial conflict / Theresa Wolfson
  • Changing legal concepts and industrial conflict / Benjamin Aaron
  • Industrial conflict in periods of national emergency / Edwin E. Witte
  • Labor and management influence on social controls / Kermit Eby
  • 4. Industrial conflict in other societies
  • Industrial conflicts in British nationalized industries / T.E. Chester
  • Industrial relations in National Socialist Germany / Matthew A. Kelly
  • Soviet Russia / Walter Galenson
  • Industrial conflict-Sweden / Oliver A. Peterson
  • 5: Industrial conflict : present and future
  • Alternative roads ahead / the Editors
  • Concluding interpretations : (A) The undetermined future of industrial conflict / Arthur Kornhauser
  • (B) Prospects of industrial conflict-a prediction / Robert Dubin
  • (C) Concluding observations / Arthur M. Ross.