Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1995

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1995

Joint labor management classes: a new role for labor education.
January 1, 1995... Introduction Traditional labor education addresses workplace issues from a worker perspective. It provides practical training to union officers and stewards to assist them in their roles as worker representatives. Labor advisory boards and...

Gender effects in grievance arbitration ... revisited.
January 1, 1995... Is the grievance arbitration process systematically biased in favor of or against individual grievants because of their gender? This is a provocative question, one that has attracted the attention of a number of researchers.(1) More recently,...

Beware old wine in new bottles: a comment on Burgess and Lane. (response to Robert Burgess and Michael Lane, Labor Studies Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall 1993)
January 1, 1995... It is mainly because we share with Robert Burgess and Michael Lane their conviction that accounting information and especially financial statements are often important in collective bargaining, and also "do not adequately serve potential...

Packaged for more convenient use: a response to comments. (response to article by Joel Amernic and Russell Craig in this issue, p. 45)
January 1, 1995... We appreciate the comments thai we received. We would like to address them in reverse order. First, of the technical comments, the Goodwill referred to was an allocated portion of goodwill from the parent; therefore we recommend its omission....

Women and Disability.
January 1, 1995... This collection of articles, excerpts, photographs and short stories explores the problems of women living with disability around the world. Each of the book's seven chapters addresses a different aspect of disability: the stigma surrounding...

Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs.
January 1, 1995... In meetings of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, there is often talk of feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, feeling "less than" and "not part of." When those observations are applied to the African American community, it is no...