Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1996

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1996

Union representation elections and labor law reform: lessons from the Minneapolis Hilton.
January 1, 1996... The statistics are well-known: in 1953, 35.7 percent of U.S. private, nonagricultural employees belonged to labor unions whereas in 1993, 11.2 percent belonged to unions (Troy and Sheflin, 1985; U.S. Department of Labor, 1994). The reasons...

Boston Harbor and project labor agreements for public owners: a strategy for union and university labor educators.
January 1, 1996... Introduction Shrinking union density in the building and construction trades has created a multitude of problems for building trades unions, including lower dues collections (a significant part of dues are based on a cents per hour working...

Computerized technology, jobs and the union's role: the views of union members in a skilled craft industry.
January 1, 1996... Introduction This study, using 1994 survey data from 350 union members working in the mill-cabinet segment of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, focuses on two key issues: (1) How do union members view the new...

Mexican labor in the era of economic restructuring and NAFTA: working to create a favorable investment climate. (North American Free Trade Agreement)
January 1, 1996... Mexicanists have frequently been in the position of explaining the exceptional nature of their case. For several decades Mexico stood out in the region for its remarkable political stability, seemingly immune to the threats of either armed...

Collective Bargaining as an Instrument of Social Change.
January 1, 1996... Collective Bargaining as an Instrument of Social Change is an essay on the possibility that U.S. unions could use collective bargaining to transform both U.S. industrial relations practices and the larger social environment. Jacobs believes...

Working Part-Time: Risks and Opportunities.
January 1, 1996... While they make up 25 to 35 percent of our workforce (or almost 34 million people), and thereby outnumber the employees of the Fortune 500 combined, the nation's part-timers remain the Rodney Dangerfields of the workplace. Their plight gets no...

Sexual Harassment at Work: A Training Workbook for Working People.
January 1, 1996... This excellent basic primer should prove valuable to labor educators, union officers and stewards both for educating others and as a reference guide. It includes realistic clear descriptions of sexual harassment, practical exercises useable by...

Occupational Subcultures in the Workplace.
January 1, 1996... The author of this book draws on cultural anthropology to examine the role of occupational cultures in the workplace. Occupational cultures are group phenomena which develop over time; they are dynamic, adapting in response to changes in...

Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies.
January 1, 1996... Authored between 1972 and 1990, nine previously-published essays (with wry new introductions) explore overt and covert ways by which workers worldwide are simultaneously controlled and seek to resist. Drawing on extensive experience in Nigeria...

International and Comparative Industrial Relations: A Study of Industrialised Market Economies.
January 1, 1996... This volume is the second edition of a well presented and concise comparison of the industrial relations systems in seven industrialized countries; Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, and Japan. As a result of...

The Long Death of British Labourism: Interpreting a Political Culture.
January 1, 1996... This work attempts to dissect the reasons behind the failure of the Labour Party to transform British society. Rejecting simplistic explanations such as those which focus on the supposed treachery or incompetence of the Party's leadership,...

Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise.
January 1, 1996... What does the history of the idea of industrial democracy offer in the way of guidance to those promoting or opposing its revival? Given current interest in this ambiguous idea stirred by the Dunlop Commission on the Future of Worker-Management...

Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution.
January 1, 1996... Two decades ago, Joan Wallach Scott and Louise Tilly vigorously challenged both Marxist and modernization theorists who contended that women's wage labor had been a step on the road toward emancipation and equality. In a series of influential...

The Strike of '28.
January 1, 1996... During the mid-1920s, New England textile workers faced pay cuts, stretchouts, and speedups. In 1928, New Bedford operatives shattered the industry's deceptive calm with an explosive six-month, strike against a 10% pay cut. Georgianna and...

Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields.
January 1, 1996... The struggles of coal miners and their families during the first few decades of the twentieth century have recently attracted considerable attention from students of the American labor movement. Powerless to control what happened in their...

The Origins of Southern Sharecropping.
January 1, 1996... Too often, sharecropping has been examined through the lens of what it became: de facto enslavement and segregation. Royce, however, keeps his analysis rooted squarely in the ideas, feelings, and rhetoric of the post-bellum South. In a...

Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1996... This volume contains excerpts drawn from a collection of almost one thousand interviews with trade union activists housed in the Special Collections of the State Historical Society in Iowa City, Iowa. The collection had its origins in the...

On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War.
January 1, 1996... Nearly a generation ago, historians reshaped our understanding of labor history when they discovered that "workers" extended beyond white, skilled, male unionists. The current generation of labor history researchers and labor history readers...