Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises THOMAS WELSKOPP : The interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises

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Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises THOMAS WELSKOPP

ABSTRACT

A theoretically sound re-conceptualisation of the ‘firm’ in modern society thus constitutes a necessary precondition for examining both the inner workings of industrial capitalism and the fabric of societies at large structured by it.