Capitalist Collective Action - Competition, Cooperation and Conflict in the Coal Industry

Zusammenfassung This 1989 volume presents a theory of capitalist collective action and a case study of the pre-World War II American coal industry to which the theory is applied. The author examines the irony of capitalist firms that do not want to compete with each other! but often cannot avoid doing so. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: 1. Economic competition and market organization: the logic of capitalist collective action; 2. Forms of capitalist collective action; Part II: 3. Price and wage games in the bituminous coal industry; 4. Workers organize capitalists: collective bargaining and market organization, 1880-1914; 5. The coal industry on the defensive, 1916-22; 6. Labor-capital conflict and the disorganization of the coal market, 1921-8; 7. From free competition to state intervention; Part III: 8. Capitalists, workers, and the state; Bibliography; Indexes.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John R. Bowman, John R. (Queens College Bowman, Bowman John R.
• Mitarbeit: G. A. Cohen (Herausgeber), Jon Elster (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521028820
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02882-0
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Studies in Marxism and Social; Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA