How to stop New Management Techniques
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'NEW Management Techniques are sweeping through thousands of workplaces: car factories; hospitals; public services; local government.
Buzz words like quality management", 'flexibility" and "team work', are the jargon of what Swansea academic Dan Jones has dubbed 'the machine that changed the work!' The heart of 'New management Techniques' is the drive to restructure modern capitalism -imposing stepped up demands on every worker, cutting jobs, busting unions and boosting NOTHIS In a world of prolonged economic crisis, 'New Management Techniques' are posed as inevitable and necessary for the survival of jobs and services. Strategies of resistance have to start with an unectstanoing of what 'New Management Techniques means: what the real Most trades unions are silent on these issues or actively collaborate with the dissemination of 'New Management" ideology.
A Socialist Outlook dayschool in central London on Saturday July 3 will explore the detailed facts about New Management Techniques.
Running from 11am to 6pm at Conway Hall, Holborn, it will provide a discussion forum and trades unionists and others wishing to confront this offensive.
The dayschool will open with first-hand accounts of the offensive by teacher Gill Lee, carworker Tony Richardson, health campaigner John Lister and Andy Kilminster from the Oxford Motor Industry Research Project. The first round of workshops will look into automation, casualisation, quality control, de-unionisation and at homeworking. Further workshops will separately consider the situation for rail. local government, communications, health and education workers. • For advance tickets send ES (waged) or E2 (unwaged and students) to Socialist Outlook, P.O. Box 1109, London N4 2UU. The 3rd Socialist Outlook
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