"[The workmethods had] evolved from the experience of successive generations... Each other, often being members of the…"

"We are moving towards another type of society than that to which we have become accustomed. This is sometimes referre…"

"This paper introduces a concept of organizational ecology. This refers to the organizational field created by a numbe…"

"We know from experience that technology can be changed. We have learned in the quality-of-working-life enterprise not…"

"Faced with low productivity despite improved equipment, and with drift from the pits despite both higher wages and be…"

"The advantage of placing responsibility for the complete coal-getting task squarely on the shoulders of a single, sma…"

"The outstanding feature of the social pattern with which the pre-mechanized equilibrium was associated is its emphasi…"

"Occupational roles express the relationship between a production process and the social organization of the group. In…"

"Every time the cycle is stopped, some 200 tons of coal are lost. So close is the task interdependence that the system…"

"The longwall method [can be] regarded as a technological system expressive of the prevailing outlook of mass-producti…"