LABOR AND THE STATE: PRODUCTIVITY AS A SOCIAL PROCESS (NEW YORK CITY).
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Title
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LABOR AND THE STATE: PRODUCTIVITY AS A SOCIAL PROCESS (NEW YORK CITY).
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Identifier
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AAI8302566
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identifier
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8302566
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Creator
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ECKER, MARTHA.
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Contributor
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M ichael E. Brown | Raymond S . F r a n k lin
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
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Abstract
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This study develops a new perspective for analyzing productivity in application to the state sector. Through an analysis of one productivity improvement program in New York City, prevailing conceptions of state sector productivity and instruments designed to gauge changes in the productivity ratio, productivity is reconceptualized as a social process rather than as a concept rational to the precepts of economics.;The development of definitions of productivity and programs designed to improve the productivity of state personnel are found to be responsive to the following: labor-management relations; worker resistance; and legal and juridical procedures. The broadbanding and consolidation program in New York City is analyzed in detail in order to illustrate the significance of this perspective. This program restructured civil service titles in order to increase the range of duties and responsibilities associated with a given civil service title and to improve the productivity of municipal workers. Particular features of this program were modified in the course of union-management negotiations, through worker resistance and by appeal to adjudicatory agencies.;The broadbanding and consolidation program specifically, and productivity improvement, in general, are discussed in relation to labor process analysis and theories of the capitalist state. The results of this study indicate that contextually created definitions of productivity in the state sector are related to prevailing tendencies in the organization and objectives inherent in the work process as well as to the activities and functions of the capitalist state.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
