Labor Studies Journal articles from June 22 1991

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 22 1991

The AFL-CIO's effort to minimize union membership conflicts: 1962-1987. (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
June 22, 1991... During the early 1950s both the AFL and the CIO began programs to curtail disputes among their affiliates. The merger of the two federations in the mid-1950s accelerated these efforts. In 1962 all affiliates of the AFL-CIO were held to be bound...

Organizational struggles of working women in the nineteenth century.
June 22, 1991... In the latter part of the 1860s a small group of women typesetters in New York City began demanding higher wages, better working conditions, and membership in a male-dominated union. Within a two-year period the women were bought into conflict...

A longitudinal analysis of content issues in labor arbitration: views from arbitrators themselves.
June 22, 1991... This article compares the responses from members of the National Academy of Arbitrators regarding their opinions about how certain variables affect arbitration decisions and awards for two time period 1975 and 1987. The results not only...

What do unions do now? A study of the provision by British trade unions of benefits and services to their members.
June 22, 1991... British trade union density has fallen dramatically over the past decade. This article examines one particular aspect of the response of British trade unions to declining membership, namely the provision of new benefits and services to union...

Theories of the Labor Movement.
June 22, 1991... Theories of the Labor Movement is a volume of thoughtful and discriminating excerpts of the central ideas of relevant theories of the labor movement. They include the Marxists, the Webbs, Commons, Hoxie, Perlman, Tannenbaum, and a varied...

The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past.
June 22, 1991... "Intelligent human being are dangerous." This philosophy - unvoiced, perhaps even unrecognized sometimes - lies at the heart of new office technology, argues Barbara Garson in The Electronic Sweatshop. At a time when labor educators are...

High-Tech Society: The Story of the Information Techno;ogy Revolution.
June 22, 1991... High-Tech Society is a book that has a lot to say about high-tech and very little to say about society. Forester devotes a significant amount of the book to tracing the development of computer technology and to the evolution of the computer...

Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept.
June 22, 1991... Anyone seeking an in-depth analysis of the "Team Concept," with all of its warts, should read Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept. Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter provide background on the analyze the "team concept" as it exists in...

Job Saving Strategies: Worker Buyouts and QWL.
June 22, 1991... Early in 1982, A&P announced it was closing all of its remaining stores in greater Philadelphia area. Job Saving Strategies looks at the innovative strategies that were used by the unions, workers and managers to save the jobs lost to these...

Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace: Costs, Controls and Controversies, a BNA Special Report.
June 22, 1991... The "war on drugs" has generated lots of rhetoric and not very much useful information, and the real problems of drug/alcohol use in the workplace have remained intractable. One employee "profile," for example, prepared by Workplace...

Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform.
June 22, 1991... Pay equity is one of the key economic issues for women today. Wage Justice innovatively explores comparable worth as an integral "part of the process" to achieve such equity. Unlike previous studies which are bases on a paradigm of unions as...