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Shop stewards' organisation in Ford Halewood: from Beynon to today
Author(s) -
Darlington Ralph
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1994.tb00698.x
Subject(s) - vitality , business , management , operations management , economy , engineering , economics , philosophy , theology
This article revisits the Ford Halewood car plant on Merseyside to assess the extent of shop steward bureaucratisation since Huw Beynon's Working for Ford appeared twenty years ago. It suggests that, notwithstanding very substantial changes, there are important elements of continuity with the shop‐floor union vitality of the past.