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In addition, though despotic authority was certainly a pervasive influence, it often had to accommodate to the power of other figures in the enterprise, such as craft workers. Hence the image of the all-seeing, all-knowing employer underestimates the struggles at the frontier of control in the workplace. There is also considerable evidence that a more significant mode of control involved contracting arrangements. Contracting Outsourcing functions and work to contractors is now a growth area in many companies (see Chapter 11).
There were other head-on clashes in the 1890s, including those between the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and their employers in the UK, and major conflicts in the US steel industry, such as the Homestead strike of 1892 (Stone, 1973). Employers began to assert their general right to run production as they saw fit. This took a particularly virulent form in the US with its weaker unions, as manifested in the ‘open shop’ campaign run by some employers. The predominant measures used by capital there and elsewhere to challenge and change existing modes of control were, however, less dramatic.
This required new forms of co-ordination, integration and control, and methods of keeping down labour costs. The orientation of larger firms towards professional managers, engineers and consultants additionally provided a supportive framework for the rise of Taylorism.