 Employee representation plans at the Minnequa Steelworks, Pueblo, Colorado, 1915-1942Greg Patmore Business History, 2007, vol. 49, issue 6, 844-867 Abstract: There has been revival of interest in employment representation plans as an alternative way of giving employees a 'voice' in a period of declining trade union density. J.D. Rockefeller Jr. played a crucial role in establishing the movement for employee representation plans in the United States before the Second World War, which at one stage may have covered more workers than unions. He established his employee representation plan at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CFI) in the wake of the Ludlow massacre of 1914 and it served as a model for other employers. This article examines his Plan at the CFI's Pueblo steelworks, which survived for 26 years. It examines to what degree the Plan gave voice to the steelworks employees and to what extent the Plan was a union avoidance strategy. It also highlights union efforts to destroy the Plan in the 1919 Steel Strike and the impact of resistance from supervisors, who resented the undermining of their authority by the Plan. Keywords: Colorado Fuel & Iron; John D. Rockefeller; Jr; Employee Representation Plans (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:bushst:v:49:y:2007:i:6:p:844-867 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00076790701710340 Access Statistics for this article Business History is currently edited by Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms More articles in Business History from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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