Between 1860 and 1910 the population of the US tripled, and so too did the industrial work force. New types of commercial enterprise sprung up to stand alongside the pre-Civil War textile factories.

Rather than help to make our lives better, this "workplace-industrial complex" only provides cover for bad bosses and obfuscates the ease with which workplace conditions can be improved.

(Photo Illustration by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) “Let many ideas flourish as industrial policy doesn’t work.” Those are the words of the excellent Andy Kessler in his latest Wall ...

Miller, Doug Turner, Simon and Grinter, Tom 2011. Back to the Future? A Critical Reflection on Neil Kearney’s Mature Systems of Industrial Relations Perspective on the Governance of Outsourced Apparel ...