Labor Studies Journal articles from January 2000

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 2000

Unions and Information Technology: From Luddites to Cyberunions?
January 1, 2000... Survey data are used to examine the use of, and views about, information technology (IT) among U.S. national unions. Usable responses were received from nearly two-thirds of such unions. In addition to descriptive information regarding IT use...

Trade Union Strategy and Teamwork: The British and German Car Industry.
January 1, 2000... There have been many studies on teamwork in the car industry but only a few have compared trade union strategies on teamwork in two countries. The two case studies analyze the strategies of a British and a German trade union in their respective...

A Union-Initiated Safety Training Program Leads to Improved Workplace Safety.
January 1, 2000... Workplace safety training programs initiated by unions have gained strength and numbers over the past ten years. Union-initiated peer training offers a new twist on joint labor-management health and safety programs, which have become an...

Innovations Section: Editorial Introduction.
January 1, 2000... This is a time of great change in labor education. A revitalized labor movement that is placing more emphasis on organizing, a renewed interest in bottom-up, train-the-trainer, and "popular" styles of teaching, a radically changing economic...

Developing Rank-and-File Leaders: A Union/University Collaboration.
January 1, 2000... At times, balancing the individual and immediate needs of rank-and-file members with the loftier ideals of progressive unionism can appear to be a daunting task. The labor movement, at its best, is engaged in a long-term process of transforming...

The Birth of SCOTT: A Study Circle on Teaching Techniques.
January 1, 2000... UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education In the past ten years, the labor education staff of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH) have rediscovered, developed...

Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis. Edited by Cary Nelson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 308 PP. $19.95 paper. In Will Teach for Food, Cary Nelson has succeeded in producing a timely and much-needed look at...

We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard.(Review)
January 1, 2000... We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard. By John Hoerr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. 292 pp. $29.95 cloth. At a time when union organizing in academia is on the rise, John Hoerr tells a timely success story...

Working Class Stratification and the Demand for Unions in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Working Class Stratification and the Demand for Unions in the United States. By Hyunhee Kim. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997. 151 pp. $61 cloth. Intent on aiding the revitalization of the American labor movement, the author uses...

The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Work Place.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Work Place. By Brian Towers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 294 pp. Price n/a, paper. Brian Towers' extensive analysis of the perceived decline of trade union...

The Practice of Workplace Participation: Management-Employee Relations at Three Participatory Firms.
January 1, 2000... The Practice of Workplace Participation: Management-Employee Relations at Three Participatory Firms. By S. Lance Denning. Westport, CN: Quorum Books, 1998. 192 pp. $55 cloth. While of some interest to those concerned about empowering...

Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World. Edited by Saroj Parasuraman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1997. 240 pp. $59.95 cloth. This thoughtful compilation has weaknesses, but it could...

Violence on the Job: A Guidebook for Labor and Management.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Violence on the Job: A Guidebook for Labor and Management. By the Labor Occupational Health Program. Berkeley: Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California, 1997. 105 pp. $15 paper. Preventing Workplace...

How Arbitration Works. Fifth Edition.
January 1, 2000... How Arbitration Works. Fifth Edition. Edited by Edward P. Goggin and Marlin M. Volz, ABA. Washington D.C., BNA, 1997. 1,266 PP. $135 cloth. This edition of a book often referred to as the "bible of arbitration" since its publication in...

An Introduction to Labor Law, Second Edition.(Review)
January 1, 2000... An Introduction to Labor Law, Second Edition. By Michael Evan Gold. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1998. 72 pp. $8.95 paper. Michael Evan Gold's revised edition of An Introduction to Labor Law is a no--frills primer on the National Labor Relations...

Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. By Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 pp. $17.95 paper. Radium Girls is a rich education in how "knowledge about industrial...

Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism. By Richard W. Judd. State University of New York Press: Albany, New York, 1989. 254 Pages. $24.95 paper. Richard Judd begins his book by asking the critical...

The Politics of Agricultural Labor: From Slavery to Freedom in a Cotton Culture, 1862-1902.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Politics of Agricultural Labor: From Slavery to Freedom in a Cotton Culture, 1862-1902. By Robert Hinton. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 183 pp. $58 cloth. This book provides a rare look at the conditions of black plantation...

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. By Mark M. Smith. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 303 pp. $45 cloth, $16.95 paper. Mastered by the Clock takes us to early eighteenth...

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. By Kevin Kenny. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. 336 pp. $39.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The drama and horror of violence, undercover detective work, show trials and mass hangings which played out...

Errata.(correction to "Leadership Development and Organizing: For What Kind of Union?" in Summer 1999 issue)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2000... References for Michael Eisenscher's article "Leadership Development and Organizing: For What Kind of Union?" were not included in the Summer, 1999 issue. We apologize for any inconvenience. References Bain, George Sayers and Robert...