Labor Studies Journal articles from January 2001

Labor Studies Journal archives from January 2001

Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up. By Martha Gruelle and Mike Parker. Labor Notes, Detroit, MI, 1999. ISBN# 0914093118. 300 pp. $17 paper. Those of us who have toiled in the trenches of the trade union movement for...

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture & The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917.(Review)
January 1, 2001... From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture. By Paul Buhle. New York & London: Garland Publishers, 1997. ISBN# 0815322259. 258 pp. $54.00 cloth. The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917....

Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America; A Biographical Study.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America; A Biographical Study. By L.A. O'Donnell. Contributions in Labor Studies Number, 49, Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN# 0313299447. 227 pp. $59.95 cloth While there have been many...

Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora. Edited by Nancy Green. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN# 0520201272. 263pp. $40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. American labor researches and writers on American Jewish labor...

Participatory Unionism.(labor, history)
January 1, 2001... Charles Heckscher [1] Many labor scholars, today as in the past, advocate greater participation by members in decision-making as a cure for what ails the labor movement. A review of experience with such participation, however, shows that...

Why Participation? Lessons from the Past for the Future A response to Charles Hecksher's article, "Participatory Unionism".
January 1, 2001... Charles Hecksher's article, entitled "Participatory Unionism," could serve to provoke a useful debate about "the degree to which unions should be internally participative." Given the openness of discussion now possible in the labor movement,...

When is Co-Management Participatory? A response to Charles Hecksher's article, "Participatory Unionism".(analysis)
January 1, 2001... At the end of his article, entitled "Participatory Unionism," Heckscher suggests that his union typology provides a useful framework to focus future research, and that "participatory co-management," in particular, bears a closer look. Does...

Building a "Minority Union": The CWA Experience at NCR.(Communications Workers of America, NCR Corporation)
January 1, 2001... This article provides a theoretical and legal overview of the issue of "minority unions" or "members only" unions that attempt to represent workers in the absence of a majority status or a legally protected right to engage in collective...

Improving the Union Outreach Capabilities of Manufacturing Extension Centers.(union organizing)
January 1, 2001... Carol J. Haddad [1] This study investigates the effectiveness of structured union outreach activities at manufacturing extension centers. An analysis of interview and survey data from three centers that participated in a labor outreach...

Labor's Agonizing Struggle: The Victory and Overthrow of Fiji's Labor Government.
January 1, 2001... Darryn Snell [1] Satendra Prasad [2] May 17, 1999 was a day of celebration for Fiji's workers and trade unions. The Fiji Labour Party and its coalition partners had won a landslide victory in the general election. This paper examines...

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935. By Ruth O'Brien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Cloth: ISBN# 0807824305. Paper: ISBN#. 0807847372. 313 pp. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. ...

For Labor's Sake: Gains & Pains as Told by 28 Creative Inside Reformers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... For Labor's Sake: Gains & Pains as Told by 28 Creative Inside Reformers. Edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995. ISBN #0-8191-9775-0. 333 pp. $27 paper. For Labor's Sake is a collection of short pieces...

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women & The Sex Sector: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. By Ching Kwan Lee. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Paper: ISBN# 520211278. Cloth: ISBN# 0520211257. 210 + xiii pp. $45 cloth, $16.95 paper. The Sex...

The Business of Employee Empowerment: Democracy and Ideology in the Workplace.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Business of Employee Empowerment: Democracy and Ideology in the Workplace. By Thomas A. Potterfield. Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1999. ISBN #1-56720-261-6. 184 pp. $55 cloth. There is no bigger set of buzzwords in the...

Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable, and the Decline of Construction Unions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable, and the Decline of Construction Unions. By Marc Linder. Fanpihua Press: Iowa City, 1999. ISBN #0-9673899-0-9. 434 pp. Paper $15. "Jobs were taken by compatriots, some of them until...

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor. By Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN #0-8014-3633-8 245 pp. $29.95 hardcover. For purposes of full...

Why Unions Matter.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Why Unions Matter. By Michael Yates. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999. ISBN# 0853459290. 192 Pp. $17.00 paper. This short, well-written book provides a general introduction to unions and the labor movement for both union members and...

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. By Masayo Umezawa Duus. Tr. by Beth Carey and adapted by Peter Duus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Cloth: ISBN# 0-520-20484-0. Paper: ISBN# 0-520-20485-9. 386 pp....

Corporatism or Competition? Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Corporatism or Competition? Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison. By Coen Teulings and Joop Hartog. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN# 0521590736. 346 pp. $64.95 cloth. Corporatism...

Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence. By Katherine S. Newman. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN #0-520-21842-6. 328 pages. $13.95 paper. When the first edition of Falling From Grace was...