Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1993

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1993

Lean or mean: the MIT model and lean production at Mazda. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mazda Motor Corp.)
June 22, 1993... Is Japan's system of "lean production" the cure-all for American automakers? James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos, senior managers at MIT's International Motor Vehicle Project, say yes. According to their best-selling book, The Machine...

Participative regulation of hazardous working conditions: safety committees of the United Mine Workers of America, 1941-1969.
June 22, 1993... On June 19, 1941, the United Mine Workers of America and the leading bituminous operators signed the Appalachian Joint Wage Agreement. The contract allowed the union to select a safety committee at each mine. This group of rank-and-file workers...

Cultural diversity education: what is being done?
June 22, 1993... The U.S. labor force is undergoing massive demographic change. The number of white males in the manufacturing sector, once the bulwark of the American labor movement, is in decline. Meanwhile, as the service sector expands, women, minorities, and...

A preliminary investigation of determinants of local union steward power.
June 22, 1993... Immediately after World War II, analysts of labor and industrial relations proposed that union stewards in the United States had endured a continuous loss of power and authority since the war's inception. Typically, taking the mass organizing...

Creating Jobs, Creating Workers: Economic Development and Employment in Metropolitan Chicago.
June 22, 1993... Creating Jobs, Creating Workers is the product of a conference held in late 1989 on economic development options for the city of Chicago. A variety of academics and practitioners presented papers to this conference which became chapters in the...

Labor in a Global Economy: Perspectives from the U.S. and Canada.
June 22, 1993... This soundly structured and well-edited book brings together 36 papers by union leaders and academics which were delivered to the U.S.-Canadian "Labor in a Global Economy" conference, held in 1990. Co-sponsors included the British Columbia...

Industrial Relations in Japan: The Peripheral Workforce.
June 22, 1993... To paraphrase a joke that has often been heard in labor circles, no one wants to listen to another lecture about the wonders of Japanese industry. Fortunately, this study of small firm production in Japan offers a detailed and incisive look at...

Working Women: International Perspectives on Labour and Gender Ideology.
June 22, 1993... This volume consists of a series of essays resulting from the work of the University of Kent's women's studies program. Dealing with a wide range of topics in a variety of different nations, this book allows the reader to examine questions that...

Strikes have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography.
June 22, 1993... This book is the autobiography of Emma Mashinini, a black trade union leader in South Africa. It tells the story of a remarkable woman and her struggle for justice in the apartheid system of South Africa. It starts with Mashinini's childhood in...

How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers.
June 22, 1993... "Although grassroots groups and unions can sometimes attract media attention or develop friendly relations with a reporter, the desk is stacked against us," United Auto Workers editor Nancy Brigham writes. Portraying the news media as alternately...

Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life.
June 22, 1993... The poems collected in this volume -- 169 of them by 74 poets, nearly a third of them women -- are about blue collar America at work, or not working, or about workers themselves: men and women, on the job and off, their spouses, their families,...

Hoffa.
June 22, 1993... Hoffa is one of those historical figures who draws more invective than praise whenever he is the subject of literary inquiry. Unlike other authors, Arthur A. Sloane presents a balanced treatment of the labor giant in his recent work, Hoffa. He...

Rank and File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
June 22, 1993... The dramatic victory of Ron Carey over established leadership in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) raises questions of union democracy and member participation which are the focus of Rank and File Rebellion by Dan La Botz, a...

Order Against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915.
June 22, 1993... This book argues that the values of the American capitalist elite established broad and deep ideological hegemony in the United States at the turn of the century, a period when capital viewed labor as an antagonist to be crushed and ideologically...

Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States.
June 22, 1993... In Belated Feudalism, Karen Orren writes that nineteenth-century trade unionists often described American labor law as "feudal." She devotes her book to proving the description was apt. Orren defines feudalism as a system where tradition-bound...

Organizing and the Law, 4th ed.
June 22, 1993... If a union official, union educator, or university labor educator is interested in beginning, or adding to, a library of relevant materials, the fourth edition of Organizing and the Law should surely be one of the first books considered....

The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Practical and Legal Guide to Impact, Enforcement and Compliance. A BNA Special Report.
June 22, 1993... New and much needed federal legislation to provide disabled people with certain basic civil rights was signed into law on July 26, 1990. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will expand the protections that the disabled are legally entitled...

Settling for More: Mastering Negotiating Strategies and Techniques.
June 22, 1993... Alvin L. Goldman, a professor of law at the University of Kentucky and a labor arbitrator, has written a book about negotiating that is largely removed from macrolevel contexts. Settling for More's focus is clearly on the microlevel interaction...