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Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire Huberman, Michael (Universite de Montreal)
Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
Huberman, Michael (Universite de Montreal)
This book questions the idea that wages were set by thoroughgoing competition in the heyday of laissez-faire capitalism. Drawing on the experience of workers during industrialisation, this book shows that workers and firms have good reasons to fix wages independently of market fluctuations.
240 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 12, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521561518 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 242 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 236 × 23 mm · 508 g |
| Language | English |