Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1993

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1993

Canadian labor and the Free Trade Agreement.
January 1, 1993... On January 1, 1989, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) became law. This landmark accord has had a relatively low profile in the United States, whereas across Canada its negotiation and passage stirred strong passions. This is...

Steward training in the construction industry: the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America faces the challenge.
January 1, 1993... In recent years, providing uniform steward training has emerged as an important challenge for building and construction trades unions. The two largest B&CT unions, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the United Brotherhood...

How arbitrators view the process of labor arbitration: a longitudinal analysis.
January 1, 1993... What are the critical variables employed in reaching an arbitration decision and award? Have these variables changed over time? What changes, if any, have occurred in the "process" of labor arbitration? In this study, the process of labor...

Economic challenges and the changing concerns of actors in the industrial relations system of Nigeria.
January 1, 1993... Economic recession has had various effects on employees, employers, and the state all over the world. Developing countries, by their very nature as "soft" or evolving states, seem to be hardest hit. Various traditional fights of employees in...

Bridges to Retirement: Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market.
January 1, 1993... Edited by Peter B. Doeringer. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, ILR Press, 1990. 251 pp. $14.95, paper; $32, cloth. Certain demographic and work force trends are clear: the population of those 55 and older is growing, life expectancy has...

Women's Quest for Economic Equality.
January 1, 1993... By Victor R. Fuchs. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Harvard University Press, 1988. 171 pp. Price n/a, paper. It should come as no surprise that not only have women realized few economic gains over the past thirty years, but...

Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings: An Anthology.
January 1, 1993... Edited by Janet Zandy. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 366 pp. $12.95, paper. Over the last several years moviegoers and readers interested in work and workers have had something to see and read. John Sayles's...

The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker.
January 1, 1993... By Theresa Serber Malkiel. Introductory Essay by Francoise Basch. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, ILR Press, 1990 [1910]. 224 pp. $12.95, paper. Many historians view individual identity as a thing that is constantly renegotiated. Men and...

Managing to Discriminate.
January 1, 1993... By David L. Collinson, David Knights, and Margaret Collinson. London and New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1990. 261 pp. $17.95, paper. Using data from dozens of British workplaces. Collinson et. al. offer a revealing look at how...

Labor Guide to Labor Law, 3rd ed.
January 1, 1993... Third Edition. By Bruce Feldacker. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1990. 477 pp. $42.50, cloth This book is an encyclopaedic guide to private sector labor law. First published in 1980, it appears now in its third edition, and there...

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
January 1, 1993... By William E. Forbath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. 211 pp. $10.95, paper; $21.95, cloth. In Law And The Shaping Of The American Labor Movement, William Forbath argues that law, probably more than any other...

Future Work: Seven Critical Forces Reshaping Work and the Work Force in North America.
January 1, 1993... By Joseph F. Coates, Jennifer Jarratt, and John B. Mahaffie. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1990. 445 pp. (+ workbook). Price n/a, paper. Future Work is an effort by three management consultants to examine the forces that are...

Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor.
January 1, 1993... By William Lazonick. Cambridge, MA.: University Press, 1990. 419 pp. $37.50, cloth. Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor is a highly complex book weaving together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence about productive efficiency...

The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s.
January 1, 1993... By Paul Krugman. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990. 204 pp. $17.95, cloth. Krugman describes his book as an attempt to educate the general public about basic trends in the U.S. economy while "maintaining intellectual quality." He...

Labor-Management Cooperation: New Partnerships or Going in Circles?
January 1, 1993... By William N. Cooke. Kalamazoo, MI.: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1990, 198 pp. Price n/a, paper. William N. Cooke contends that global competition, the rapid pace of technological change, and weakened unions do not allow...

Labor Conflict in the United States. An Encyclopedia.
January 1, 1993... Edited by Ronald L. Filippelli. New York, N.Y.: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. 609 pp. $95, cloth. This volume provides brief historical accounts of the numerous struggles between capital and labor in the United States from colonial times...

Disintegration and Change: Labor Relations in the Meat Packing Industry.
January 1, 1993... By Charles R. Perry and Delwyn H. Kegley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Industrial Research Unit, 1989. 239 pp. $30, paper. Disintegration and Change deals with the recent turbulent history of the meat packing...

Dilemmas of Activisim: Class, Community, and the Politics of Local Mobilization.
January 1, 1993... Edited by Joseph M. Kling and Prudence S. Posner. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. 327 pp. $39.95, cloth. Dilemmas of Activism contains a number of thoughtful essays on the politics of local community activism, for the most part...