Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1998

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1998

Contesting the dinosaur image: the labor movement's search for a future.
January 1, 1998... Flashback It is March 1986 and labor educators from unions and universities have gathered for their annual conference. This year's site is the Seafarers International Union's (SIU) magnificent training facility in Piney Point, Maryland....

A change of image is not enough. (response to article by Richard W. Hurd in this issue, p. 5)
January 1, 1998... In this well-written piece, "Contesting the Dinosaur Image: The Labor Movement's Search for a Future," we find a summary of the growth and decline of the American labor movement. With recent changes in the leadership of the national AFL-CIO,...

Leadership is critical to resurgence. (response to article by Richard W. Hurd in this issue, p.5)
January 1, 1998... My response to "Contesting the Dinosaur Image" is grounded in my experience as an AFL-CIO State Director for the Department of Mobilization and Field Services, and as a president of a Central Labor Council (CLC). The historical account presented...

Conservative interest group impact on union voters: the link between social and economic issues.
January 1, 1998... The political fortunes of the American labor movement suffered a serious setback when the Republican Party dominated the 1994 elections on both the national and state levels. Just two years after seeing their endorsed candidate win the presidency...

The emergence of faculty unions at flagship public universities in Southern New England.
January 1, 1998... The unionization of faculty at public institutions of higher education is a significant piece in the story of public sector unionization, but the topic has attracted little attention from researchers. The arrival of faculty collective bargaining...

The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyond.
January 1, 1998... The Activist's Handbook claims to provide strategic and tactical lessons for those working for social change. It is a close study of social movements in the past twenty years. On the whole the book succeeds admirably in achieving its goal....

Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition.
January 1, 1998... In this book Louis Filler provides an impassioned defense of the reforms associated with the Progressive Era as well as a plea for progressivism's return in our own time period. Filler's work is detailed and painstaking. He covers politics,...

Talking Union.
January 1, 1998... The Native American novelist Thomas King says that "there are no truths, only stories." Everyone has a story, and everyone's story is different even when it is based in the same events as someone else's story. Therefore everyone's story is worth...

Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America.
January 1, 1998... The outright elimination or reduction of government regulation over private industry represents one of the cornerstones of the free market attack on the surviving remnants of the New Deal. The initial steps undertaken by the Carter Administration...

Industrialization & Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries.
January 1, 1998... This volume complements "Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region" also published (in 1993) by Cornell and edited by Stephen Frenkel. Together, these books provide an authoritative overview of labor relations in the industrializing economies of...

Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business, rev. ed.
January 1, 1998... In Playing for Dollars, business professor Paul Staudohar provides a readable and concise account of labor relations in the four major team sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey). Labor relations before the 1970s, he writes, did not...

Negotiation: Process, Tactics, Theory, 2nd ed.
January 1, 1998... Negotiation: Process, Tactics, Theory is a short nontechnical encyclopedia that uses forty-eight pages with four figures to define seventy standard negotiation "tactics." These tactics range alphabetically from "acceptance time" to "venue." The...

Winning at the NLRB.
January 1, 1998... In the preface to this book, the author clearly defines the intent and the target audience of this publication. Although the book discusses the National Labor Relations Act, it is not meant to be a "treatise on substantive law" or a substitute...

The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995.
January 1, 1998... For both survey instructors trying to include working class issues in their classes, and labor history specialists trying to develop and conduct advanced classes, no period is more difficult to teach than the modem era. Labor historians have...

The Immigrant Left in the United States.
January 1, 1998... The organization of immigrants is central to the future of the American labor movement. Hardly an academic exercise, this collection of historical essays provides much needed information to today's union activists. It demonstrates that, far from...

A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization.
January 1, 1998... Flint, Michigan, was recognized throughout most of the twentieth century as "Motor City, U.S.A." For a generation, from the 1950s to the early 1980s, it was second only to Detroit as the world's leading automaker. Flint was the manufacturing hub...

Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland.
January 1, 1998... This insightful study of Depression-era unemployed organizing in Michigan puts the jobless on center stage in the labor and political history of the 1930s. Detroit militants formed the nation's first Unemployed Council. During the early 1930s,...