Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1998

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1998

The impact of delay on arbitrators' decisions in discharge cases.
June 22, 1998... The decision-making process of labor arbitrators is the focus of a substantial amount of research. A number of studies examine the impact of arbitrator characteristics such as age, education, experience, and occupation on arbitrators' decisions...

Cuba, labor, and change.
June 22, 1998... Cuba is an island nation on the brink of social, economic, and political change. Pressures are mounting on its old command and control economy, including the United States' Helms-Burton law designed to discourage foreign investment in that...

The campaign to regulate causes of cumulative trauma disorders.
June 22, 1998... A few Western countries have promulgated regulations that provide limited protection from certain causes of cumulative trauma disorders, but fewer have tried to adopt ergonomics standards designed to identify and eliminate general machine or work...

Labor and social legislation in the United States: business obstructionism and accommodation.
June 22, 1998... In his Dispute Resolution, John Dunlop (1984) deplored the resistance of most business associations to dialog with organized labor concerning public policy initiatives. He asked, "How is one to account for [management's] intransigence at the...

Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job.
June 22, 1998... By Julian E. Orr. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996. 192 pp., $13.95 paper, $32.50 cloth. This book offers a sensitive look at the work experience of a group of photocopier repair technicians working for Xerox Corporation. It speaks to a number of...

Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force.
June 22, 1998... By Jeffrey Pfeffer. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 253 pp., $14.95 paper. Engaging and empowering, this handbook stands out from a crowded and endlessly growing bookshelf of advocacy for drawing on the "smarts" and dedication of a...

Working Smart: A Union Guide to Participation Programs and Reengineering.
June 22, 1998... By Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter. Detroit, MI: A Labor Notes Book, 1994. 315 pp., $20 paper. Turbulence is a word that workers have used to describe what they face in the workplace today. Instead of the regular (and sometimes hum-drum)...

Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky.
June 22, 1998... By Terry L. Besser. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. 199 pp., $14.95 paper. Over the past two decades many foreign corporations have established facilities in the United States. Nissan, Mazda, Honda, BMW, Mercedes Benz,...

Development, Geography and Economic Theory.
June 22, 1998... By Paul Krugman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. 117 pp., $20 cloth. Famed for tweaking orthodox economics' assumptions into "promising leads . . . on important economic questions," Paul Krugman here models development and geography insights...

Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Harry C. Katz. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1997. 401 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Most literature on work reorganization and unions has focussed on manufacturing and emphasized the auto industry. While manufacturing remains important,...

Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy.
June 22, 1998... By Kim Moody. New York, N.Y.: Verso, 1997. 342 pp., $20 paper. This is an important addition to the literature on globalization and should be read by all union activists. It may not win praise in all union halls because it challenges the core...

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency.
June 22, 1998... By Robert Kanigel. New York, NY: Viking, 1997. 675 pp., $34.95 cloth. Written to engage your intellect as well as your emotions, this well-composed biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) can expand a labor educator's substantive...

The FMLA Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act for Union Members and Stewards.
June 22, 1998... By Robert M. Schwartz. Cambridge, MA: Work Rights Press, 1996. 167 pp., $9.95 paper. Employers' uses and misuses of the Family and Medical Leave Act can boggle your mind - and break your heart. Now in its fifth year, this law has raised (and...

Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism.
June 22, 1998... By Daniel Ernst. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 334 pp., $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The first decade of the twentieth century was a period of great change in labor law in America. Ernst has taken a scholarly look...

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States.
June 22, 1998... By Mimi Abramovitz. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1996. 160 pp., $13 paper. For labor educators working with economic issues, there is a chronic lack of accessible materials thorough enough to provide a solid grounding in a subject,...

The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual.
June 22, 1998... by Randy Albelda, Nancy Folbre, & the Center for Popular Economics. New York: The New Press, 1996. 142 pp., $11.95 paper. For labor educators working with economic issues, there is a chronic lack of accessible materials thorough enough to...

A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.
June 22, 1998... By Lawrence B. Glickman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 220 pp., $35 cloth. Readers interested in the growing contemporary movement toward living wage campaigns will open Lawrence B. Glickman's book with great anticipation. While...

Gender and Class in Modern Europe.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. 365 pp., $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. This is a wonderful book. It shows marvelously the value and power of applying a gender perspective to...