Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1995

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1995

Lighting the spark: COMET program mobilizes the ranks for construction organization. (Construction Industry Organizing Membership Education Training program)
June 22, 1995... On March 8, 1994, organizing directors of the AFL-CIO affiliates gathered in the executive conference room of the Federation's Washington, D.C. headquarters to listen to a panel of building trades representatives describe the COMET, a membership...

Using microcomputer spreadsheets to teach industrial and labor relations applications.
June 22, 1995... Microcomputer spreadsheet software provides a valuable teaching and demonstration tool for undergraduate, graduate and adult industrial and labor relations (ILR) and labor studies students. Instructors or students can use this software to...

Indexing labor studies.
June 22, 1995... With this issue Labor Studies Journal publishes its first cumulative index. The index is an enhancement for Journal users and is the centerpiece of several related changes described in this article. Conception From early discussions to...

Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
June 22, 1995... In attempting to devise an effective enforcement program OSHA has historically faced a crucial puzzle: How can it convince employers to achieve compliance despite the fact that they are unlikely to be inspected? OSHA has enforcement...

Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life.
June 22, 1995... This is a very timely and fascinating book that attempts to establish the relationship between occupational stress and the organization of work. Part I lays out the psychosocial approach to worker health, productivity and well-being. The...

The Global Economic Mismatch: High Technology and Low Pay.
June 22, 1995... This book gives a timely, realistic, and extraordinarily comprehensive look at the interdependent, complex world economy dominated by "transnational corporations" (TNCs). It describes TNC operations as lessening competition and contributing to...

Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations.
June 22, 1995... The initiative for this book came from seminars held by the now-defunct Center for Labor Management Policy of the City University of New York, whose purpose was "to review innovative responses to economic restructuring that have involved the...

In the Public Interest? Privatization and Public Sector Reform.
June 22, 1995... In this book, which should be required reading for such courses as Labor, Government and Politics, International Affairs, and Labor Economics, the author offers a detailed examination of the powerful international forces that are propelling the...

The End of Equality.
June 22, 1995... Mickey Kaus has printed his thesis statement for The End of Equality on the book's cover: "The venerable liberal crusade for income equality is doomed. The gap between rich and poor will keep on growing, and no one knows how to stop it. It's time...

Rights At Work: Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era.
June 22, 1995... This easy to read prescription for the future, in which unions no longer act as America's driving economic force, should deservedly provoke discussion. Some will agree that present circumstances demand a break with outmoded aspects of our labor...

Training in Organizations: Needs Assessment, Development and Evaluation.
June 22, 1995... Originally published in 1974, this third edition continues to focus on training in corporations, however it includes valuable information for anyone interested in designing and evaluating training and education programs for labor organizations....

The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era.
June 22, 1995... All too frequently, labor history books become so littered with theories, statistics and other "facts" that the lives, hopes and feelings of those who actually labored become lost within their pages. Happily this volume is quite the opposite. By...

Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden.
June 22, 1995... Sweden has been described as the model industrial welfare state, complete with progressive labor market and social policies, and a highly unionized workforce. Many of these policies were developed under the stewardship of the Social Democratic...

From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada.
June 22, 1995... From Plant to Politics is an excellent history of the autoworkers' union in Canada from World War II into the 1980s. The author has done the necessary research thoroughly, and the book is very well written. In addition to "telling the story,"...

Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis.
June 22, 1995... Labor historians today are dealing with a kind of crisis in their discipline. The break-up of the Soviet Union and the failure of communism is causing a re-examination of the principles behind the socioeconomic conditions that led to the rise of...

The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1995... Historians and sociologists have worried about the nature of "American exceptionalism" for a long time. The United States was born in revolution, and radical farmers, mechanics, and laborers played a decisive role in the upheaval. Why, then, did...

The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720-1830.
June 22, 1995... Over the last two decades, Sean Wilentz, Bruce Laurie, Howard Rock, and others have argued that the rise of the American working class, so visible by the 1820s, can best be explained by the concept of "republicanism." In this view the foundation...