1. The Mechanization and Modernization Agreements have received considerable attention in the past. For example, see Paul Hartman, Collective Bargaining and Productivity: The Longshore Mechanization Agreement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
2. Lincoln Fairley, Facing Mechanization: The West Coast Longshore Plan (Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, 1979).
3. Stephen Hill, Competition and Control at Work (London: Heinemann, 1981).
4. Control is sometimes viewed as an end in itself. See for example Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974).
5. Robert Blauner, Alienation and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).