Industrial Conflict, the Quality of Worklife, and the Productivity Slowdown in U.S. Manufacturing

Michele Naples

Eastern Economic Journal, 1988, vol. 14, issue 2, 157-166

Abstract: Productivity analysis generally omits the study of labor performed per labor hour hired. It therefore fails to identify two important determinants of productivity: workplace conflict and industrial accidents. Consideration of the effect of deteriorating work relation s increases the proportion of the variance of productivity growth explained for 1951-80 by 37 percent above technical models; and social-relations variables alone explain almost two-thirds of the productivity slowdown of 1973-80. The seemingly small impact of the energy crisis is also clarified: the labor-effort/labor-hours distinction implies that the energy/labor ratio is subject to measurement error.

Date: 1988
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