Negotiating The Future

Barry Bluestone is Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. He is the co-author (with Bennett Harrison) of The Deindustrialization of America and The Great U-Turn.Irving Bluestone is University Professor of labour Studies at Wayne State University. He retired in 1980 as vice president of the United Auto Workers' Union (UAW) and as director of its General Motors Department.

• Introduction * A New Vision for American Enterprise From The Glory Days To Troubled Times * The Glory Days and the Traditional Workplace Contract * Goodbye to the Glory Days * What Went Wrong? From The Adversarial Workplace To Employee Involvement * Management Rights and Union Demands * Employee Involvement in Action * Does Participation Work? Toward An Enterprise Contract * From Co-Managing the Workplace to Co-Managing the Enterprise * The Enterprise Contract * Creating a Benign Climate for the New Labor-Management Accord