Labor Studies Journal articles from January 1999

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 1999

The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Cindy Hahamovitch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 287 pp. $45 cloth, $17.95 paper. This work places migrant farmworkers at the center of labor historians' ongoing reinvestigation of the role of the state in...

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Ruth Milkman. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1997. 234 pp. $45 cloth, $14.95 paper. The only constant for American industrial workers in the waning years of the twentieth century has been ongoing and...

Technology, Law, and the Work Environment.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldert. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. 641 pp. $42 paper. In 1976, Nick Ashford's book, Crisis in the Workplace, was published and earned a place as the most important resource for union and...

Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Deborah M. Figart and Peggy Kahn. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 225 pp. Price n/a, paper. The authors of Contesting the Market use the struggle for pay equity policies in Michigan from the 1970s to the 1990s to illustrate...

The New Insecurity: The End of the Standard Job and Family.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Jerald Wallulis. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. 237 pp. $19.95 paper. The New Insecurity is a philosophical meditation on people's changing life circumstances in the modern era. The author believes that changes...

When the Doctors Join Unions.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Grace Budrys. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1997. 177 pp. $35 cloth, $14.95 paper. Grace Budrys has made one of the first book-length attempts to describe the growing attraction of unionism for physicians. In her study of the now 26-year-old...

Adjusting to Capitalism: Chinese Workers and the State.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Greg O'Leary. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 181 pp. $62.95 cloth. This is a great collection, suitable for anyone who wants to get an education about "the various components of industrial and labor reform [in China] and their...

Class Struggle or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Seung-Kyung Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 206 pp. $49.95 cloth. When studying East Asian labor relations, U.S.-based scholars and educators encounter a triple-layered veil that obscures and distorts their view of...

Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Gary N. Chaison. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. 248 pp. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Due, in part, to improved communications and the movement toward a global economy, scholars of industrial relations have...

Education, Training, and the Global Economy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David Ashton and Francis Green. Cheltenham, UK, and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1996. 227 pp. $79.95 cloth. A key mantra of conventional wisdom on globalization holds that to remain competitive in the global economy requires us to...

Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By James J. Lorence. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 407 pp. $22.95 paper. This insightful study of Depression-era unemployed organizing in Michigan puts the jobless on center stage in the labor and political history of...

Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David L. Stebenne. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 539 pp. $45 cloth. This is an important contribution to the history of collective bargaining, labor law, and New Deal industrial relations. Few Americans played a larger role...

"We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Allen Ruff. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 312 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Allen Ruff has written a valuable study of the Chicago publishing house that gave voice to the left wing of American socialism in the...

Welfare As We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Charles Noble. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 210 pp. $45 cloth, $18.95 paper. As recently as the early 1980s, Social Security was viewed as untouchable, the third rail of American politics. Even Ronald Reagan knew that...

Distance learning in labor education.
January 1, 1999... Introduction Labor education programs are facing a challenge. As with many other programs, budgets are tight, and more students need to be reached. One way to provide services to more students at a reasonable cost is through distance...

Coverage of labor and management in the Willow Run assembly plant shutdown.(General Motors plants in Willow Run, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Arlington, Texas)
January 1, 1999... Introduction After decades of struggle, the American labor movement finally achieved political legitimacy in 1935 when Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). With broad NLRA protection for workers to organize, American...

Fanning the flames (after lighting the spark): multi-trade COMET programs.(Construction Organizing Membership Education Training)
January 1, 1999... Introduction The COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training), an educational program designed to generate rank-and-file support for organizing, has impacted construction markets across the United States and Canada...

Understanding the impact of mine health and safety programs: controlling and taking risks.
January 1, 1999... Introduction Since the 1970s, reforms in a number of industrialized countries have provided new legal rights and protections aimed at giving workers more control over their health and safety conditions (e.g., the Ontario Occupational...