Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1994

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1994

Union wage effects: an overview of recent literature.
June 22, 1994... The issue of how unions impact on wages has spawned a voluminous literature. Attempts to bring this extensive body of research into one place in a compact form have been limited. In the last two decades, few such endeavors have been undertaken....

Training women for union office: breaking the glass ceiling.
June 22, 1994... Introduction: The Glass Ceiling A glass ceiling exists in corporate America which effectively blocks qualified women and minorities from positions of power. As defined in a recent U.S. Department of Labor publication, the glass ceiling is...

Unions in Crisis.
June 22, 1994... An archival retread of labor history, from the inspirational organizing of the 1930s through the McClellan Committee revelations in the late 1950s, leads to a look at the labor movement today--what's wrong, and what to do about it. After...

Picking Up the Torch.
June 22, 1994... Some of the militant tactics and rank-and-file involvement advocated by Unions in Crisis are on display in Picking Up the Torch, an upbeat, fast-paced tour of three sectors of Los Angeles's sprawling economy. Drawing upon footage provided by...

The River Ran Red.
June 22, 1994... The River Ran Red retells the infamous events of 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Years in the making, this hour long videotape taps a rich vein of labor history that nonetheless resonates with the recent closure of the era of large scale steel...

Pay equity in local government: a case study.
June 22, 1994... In April 1992, Tompkins County became the first municipality in New York State to complete a pay equity job evaluation through the Local Government Pay Equity Project. The study tested a "bias-free" point-factor job evaluation system which the...

Construction Industry Labor-Management Cooperation Committees: defining essential elements.
June 22, 1994... Labor-management cooperation, employee involvement, and quality-of-work-life have become catch phrases for efforts to transform U.S. labor relations within the past several years. Much time and energy have been invested in attempting to make...

Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy.
June 22, 1994... Bachrach and Botwinick's book places workplace democracy and participatory democracy back on the agenda for discussion in the 1990s. In a clearly written overview of democratic theory and efforts to develop participatory democracy in the...

Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below.
June 22, 1994... In his preface, the author expresses the hope that the book will be read by labor historians, lawyers, law students active in the labor movement, and especially by rank and file workers. If the reader is wondering why Lynd has not included...

Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions.
June 22, 1994... In the last decade, workers increasingly have faced a multitude of broken employment covenants. None are more disheartening than those associated with the so-called "pension promise." The combined effects of pension underfunding, terminations,...

Bargaining for Change: Union Politics in North America and Europe.
June 22, 1994... Based on papers presented at a 1986 Cornell University conference, this volume has an academic tone that might put off lay readers at first. If they stick with it, however, readers will find themselves drawn into the drama of how unions in a...

Public Sector Industrial Relations.
June 22, 1994... In the 1970s and early 1980s there was a groundswell of interest in public sector labor relations among academics and practitioners. The result was an abundance of literature on the issue. Since that time interest in this area appears to have...

Labor Relations Law in State and Local Government.
June 22, 1994... The authors promote the book as a "practical guide to labor-management relations law in state government." It is a guide to this area of legal concern; however, it does not attempt to be an exhaustive analysis of this area. It also is not an...

What To Do When You Get Burned by the Press: How to Fight Back Effectively and Win Better News Coverage for Your Union.
June 22, 1994... Bill Puette, of the University of Hawaii, has written a comprehensive evaluation of the media's treatment of organized labor which is very useful to labor educators, union leaders and media professionals. The book is interesting, understandable...

The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement.
June 22, 1994... Teaching the last week in January and in July for the last twelve years at the Meany Center, I have reserved time twice a year to read widely among the Center's broad selection of current labor press offerings. Certain union papers and...

Basic Patterns in Union Contracts, 13th ed.
June 22, 1994... Does your contract inadequately protect workers who have been improper discharged? If so, tell your negotiating team that 22 percent of the contracts analyzed by the BNA call for reinstatement with "full back pay." Does your contract allow...

Auditing Local Union Financial Records: A Guide for Local Union Trustees.
June 22, 1994... John Lund describes his Guide for union trustees as a basic road map and a toolbox of skills and worksheets, an accurate description of this clearly written and eminently useful booklet. The opening summary chapter of this ILR Cornell...

American Communism and Black Americans: A Documentary History, 1930-1934.
June 22, 1994... Between 1920 and 1935, no one engaged in more theoretical discussion about the situation of black Americans or was so actively involved in organizing black workers and fighting racial injustice as the American Communists. Moreover, no previous...

The Andrew Carnegie Reader.
June 22, 1994... This work is an anthology of representative selections of Carnegie's writings. Carnegie, a prolific writer, was fortunate to have his views widely disseminated through the major intellectual magazines in both America and England. Add in his own...

Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950.
June 22, 1994... Until recently historians of the working-class focused on shop floor labor dynamics, giving only passing consideration to how workers obtained and lost jobs. Walter Licht's history of Philadelphia workers' search for employment between 1840 and...

Big Rig Souls: Truckers in America's Heartland.
June 22, 1994... This slim but engaging paperback is an attempt to analyze and penetrate the "souls" of big rig drivers in the midwestern heartland of the United States. It was written by Frederic Will, an acclaimed poet and Fulbright Scholar who resides in Mt....