Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1994

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1994

Lawyers and grievance arbitration: delay and outcome effects.
January 1, 1994... Introduction A common complaint voiced nowadays is that the grievance arbitration process has become "too legalistic." For example, in a recent nationwide survey of nearly 300 members of the National Academy of arbitrators conducted by Allen...

The UAW and CAW confront lean production at Saturn, CAMI, and the Japanese Automobile transplants. (United Automobile Workers, Canadian Auto Workers, General Motors Corp.'s Saturn plant, General Motors Corp.-Suzuki joint venture)
January 1, 1994... During the decade of the eighties, ten East Asian automobile assembly plants were built across the industrial heartland of North America from Smyrna, Tennessee to Bromont, Quebec.(1) This experience, rooted in the restructuring of the global...

Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-37.
January 1, 1994... When this book was first published in 1977, some reviewers praised it as a thoughtful, lucidly written account of our most important Black union. But they criticized its old-fashioned organizational approach to labor history, especially since...

Farewell to the Self-Employed: Deconstructing a Socioeconomic and Legal Solipsism.
January 1, 1994... This book means to be a comprehensive look at self-employment, incorporating legal, sociological, and economic theory. Linder examines the methods used to count the self-employed, various definitions of the term, statistics on this group's...

From Middle Income to Poor: Downward Mobility Among Displaced Steelworkers.
January 1, 1994... From Middle Income to Poor is a study of the Shenango Valley in western Pennsylvania after a series of steel mill closures in the early 1980s. The author interviewed displaced steelworkers four to seven years after their lay-off from the mill...

Training for Older People: A Handbook.
January 1, 1994... Demographic projections suggest that people over 55 will make up nearly 30 percent of the population of the United States by the year 2025. Ignoring this group's desire and potential for useful and gainful employment will be an increasingly...

States, Labor Markets, and the Future of Old-Age Policy.
January 1, 1994... "The shape of the future is established in the present." The future of old-age policy is forged by politics and current market conditions. Economic and social forces such as an aging population, a declining labor force participation rate and...

We're Worth It! Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace.
January 1, 1994... While women have made many workplace gains, they continue to predominate in clerical and administrative office jobs and the "vast majority . . . remain unorganized." Some have argued that female office workers are a group that unions must...

Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States.
January 1, 1994... In this book, Amott and Matthaei present an historical account of many social, political and labor market experiences of American women. Women represented here are African-Americans, American Indians, Chinese Americans, European-Americans,...

The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions.
January 1, 1994... This work is a republication of a book originally published in 1903 titled: History of the Carnegie Steel Company. The fortunate addition is John Ingham's introduction, which is full of background discussion of James Bridge's motives in writing...

The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War.
January 1, 1994... Over the last thirty years the "new" labor historians have provided us with a massive storehouse of excellent localized and specialized monographs, which have revealed the multifaceted nature of American working-class history. In the present...

The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure to Move from Innovation to Mass Production.
January 1, 1994... Thanks in large part to organized labor's deliberately low-profile, but highly effective political campaign in the fall of 1992, a Clinton presidency is now struggling with the three greatest anxieties of unionists coast-to-coast, namely, the...

Unions and Free Trade: Solidarity vs. Competition.
January 1, 1994... Unions and Free Trade combines economic statistics with personalized local stories to argue that the Bush-inspired North American Free Trade Agreement "fast-tracked" through Congress will be a disaster for working people throughout North...

Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalization.
January 1, 1994... This slender book improves our understanding of Japanese direct investment (JDI) in the United States, especially in California: causes, history, size, locational and industrial patterns, management practices and attitudes toward unions....

Technoculture.
January 1, 1994... This has to be one of the most exasperating books I have reviewed in the last 30 years! Few have been as trying and tiring, so loaded are the pages with jargon, esoterica, and brow-arching notions that invite a double take and a second and...

Labor Arbitration in America: The Profession and Practice.
January 1, 1994... This book is based on research done for a 1987 project of the Research Committee of the National Academy of Arbitrators, which examined the profession and practice of arbitration. An extensive questionnaire survey was sent out to the entire...

Justice on the Job: Resolving Grievances in the Nonunion Workplace.
January 1, 1994... As a disciple of the democratic and nonpaternalistic principles established by the Wagner Act, I can not conceive of a credible grievance procedure that does not provide for representation by an independent union bargaining representative. To...

Grievance Mediation: A Union Member's Guide.
January 1, 1994... This is a book, that despite its title, can be utilized by management as well as labor. In fact, anyone who is interested in industrial and labor relations and/or dispute resolution will find this book very useful. The chapters are arranged so...