Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1992

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1992

Unintended consequences of flexible scheduling: a union/management cooperative program gone wrong.
June 22, 1992... A large public utility company and a labor union recently agreed on a joint, cooperative program to introduce flexible scheduling to a large subunit on a trial basis. After one year, despite a number of highly positive outcomes,...

Making access to higher education meaningful to unionized workers: a case report.
June 22, 1992... In recent years unions and universities have been cooperating more closely in developing degree program for union members, but many barriers remain to block access to higher education for these adult workers. This article examines the...

Part-time employees, unions, and applications for the health care industry.
June 22, 1992... This article looks at the rising tide of part-time employment from several perspectives. Beyond the usual division of voluntary and involuntary part-timers, the distinction is made between part-time employees who have good jobs...

Cellular manufacturing and plant administration: some initial evidence.
June 22, 1992... This article reports the results of an international survey of 463 factories. In the article we compare Production, plant administration, and human resource policies for plants that have manufacturing cells and for those that do not. This is...

Which Side Are You On? Trying to be for Labor When Its Flat on its Back.
June 22, 1992... By Thomas Geoghegan. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. 287 pp. $19.95 cloth. Which Side Are You on? is a lively, readable account by a literary-minded lawyer of his career in the labor movement. Written in a pithy, easygoing style,...

The End of the Cold War: European Unity, Socialism, and the Shift in Global Power.
June 22, 1992... By Bogdan Denitch. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. 123 pp. $25.00 cloth. $10.95 paper. Bogdan Denitch is a political sociologist at the City University of New York Graduate School and Queens College. He was recently...

Governing the Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law.
June 22, 1992... By Paul C. Weiler, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. 317 pp. Price n/a. Peter Weiler's new book takes a comprehensive look at labor law reform in the organized and unorganized sectors of the economy. His position on reform...

Plant Closings: Worker Rights, Management Rights, and the Law.
June 22, 1992... O'Connell's book is paradigmatic of the simple-minded arguments given for management prerogatives and against plant closing legislation and workers' employment rights that some states have adopted or contemplated. The book purports to be an...

The Human Side of Factory Automation.
June 22, 1992... Domestic and international competition is the motive force pushing U.S. manufacturers to adopt and apply advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT). Further encouragement comes from an increasing number of state government programs that are...

Joint Management and Employee Participation: Labor and Management at the Crossroads.
June 22, 1992... After reading this book, one is left with two very contradictory reactions. On the one hand it is possible to consider this a visionary preview of the future course of labor-management relations in the United States. On the other hand, a reader...

Managing in the New Team Environment: Skills, Tools, and Methods.
June 22, 1992... Larry Hirschhorn of the Wharton Center for Applied Research in Philadelphia provides contemporary managers who have been "schooled in the old ways" of obtaining productivity and meeting the competitive challenge by "control orientation" with...

Hard-Hatted Women: Stories of Struggle and Success in the Trades.
June 22, 1992... Not all of the women in this book wear hard hats, and not all of them are in the trades, but they have all certainly struggled to win success and achievement in jobs that, as recently as fifteen years ago, were not |women's work.' ...

Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism.
June 22, 1992... With labour movements throughout the world contemplating the apparently terminal crises of "actually existing socialism," this fascinating study helps us to understand why socialism has often been dismissive of the need for parliamentary...

Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915.
June 22, 1992... By Ken Fones-Wolf Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. 266 pp. $34.95 cloth. The multifacted interrelationships between religion and labor in the Philadelphia of the Gilded Age down to World War I is examined in Fones-Wolf's...

Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s.
June 22, 1992... By Richard J. Altenbaugh. Philadelphia: Temple University press, 1990. 339 pp. $39.95 cloth. Brookwood Labor College, Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, and Commonwealth College, are legendary names to today's labor educators. Many...

Agitprop: The Life of an American Working Class Radical - The Autobiography of Eugene V. Dennett.
June 22, 1992... By Eugene V. Dennett. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. 270 pp. $49.50 cloth. $16.95 paper. Reared by socially conscious parents, and named after Socialist party stalwart Eugene Victor Debs, it was almost preordained that...

Women and Industrialization: Gender at Work in Nineteenth-Century England.
June 22, 1992... By Judy Lown. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. 260 pp. $45 cloth. This book describes the effects of paternalism in the Courtauld family mechanized silk mill in Halstead, England, during the nineteenth and early twentieth...

The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation.
June 22, 1992... By Laurrnce J. Kotlikoff and David A. Wise. Kalamazoo, Michigan, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1989. 155 pp. Price n/a. This technical monograph is based on a major empirical analysis of a very large sample of defined...