Labor Studies Journal articles from June 2000

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 2000

It's Time to Come Clean: Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations.
June 22, 2000... This article discusses the two general approaches to foreign affairs taken by the AFL-CIO since 1962, considering foreign policy under Presidents George Meany and Lane Kirkland (1962-95), and comparing them to the emerging foreign policy of...

Response I: On Building an International Solidarity Movement.
June 22, 2000... In late 1999 in the streets of Seattle, Washington thousands of grass roots activists from many different movements and countries came together with tens of thousands of union members, mobilized by their unions and the AFL-CIO. Collectively...

Response II: Review of "It's Time to Come Clean: Open the AFL-CIO Archives on International Labor Operations".
June 22, 2000... This article appears to have several objectives. First, it looks at the history of AFL-CIO operations abroad, in particular with respect to the 1973 military coup against the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Scipes explores...

Labor Perspectives on Accounting and Industrial Relations: A Historical and Comparative Review.
June 22, 2000... The role of accounting in industrial relations has received minimal attention in the research literature. Academics, when they have looked at the area at all, have tended to research from a managerial perspective; the interests of labor are...

Changing to Organize in a Multiethnic Union: The Role of Education at ILWU 142.
June 22, 2000... ILWU 142 is the largest private sector union in Hawaii with a history of organizing in key economic sectors, from the docks to sugar to tourism. The economic changes of the 1990s slowed the union's organizing efforts and required a shift to an...

Organizing Tactics in a Faculty Unionization Drive at a Canadian University.
June 22, 2000... This analysis of Queen's University Faculty Association's (QUFA) 1995 certification drive stresses the importance of using specific organizing techniques to enhance the likelihood of achieving successful unionization drives at a time when it is...

A New Labor Movement for the New Century.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A New Labor Movement for the New Century. Edited by Gregory Mantsios. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998. 353 pp. $24 paper. When John Sweeney ran for AFL-CIO president, he invited suggestions about ways to revitalize the labor...

Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism. Edited by Andrew Herod. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 1998. 372 pp. $54.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Labor Studies is undergoing an important restructuring away...

Education and Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements and Educational Reform in S[tilde]o Paulo.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Education and Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements and Educational Reform in S[tilde]o Paulo. By Maria del Pilar O'Cadiz, Pia Lindquist Wong, and Carlos Alberto Tones. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 270 pp. $60 cloth. Brazilian...

How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education.(Review)
June 22, 2000... How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education. By Joe L. Kincheloe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 450 pp. $69 cloth, $21 paper. Vocational education has long been an unproblematic endeavor....

Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian. By Noam Chomsky. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996. 185 pp. $15 paper. Noam Chomsky is an anarchist, but the bombs he throws are intellectual. With an extraordinary breadth of interest...

The Betrayal of Local 14.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Betrayal of Local 14. By Julius Getman. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1998. 259 pp. $29.95 cloth. This book is a page-turner, even though we know the sad end results of the 1987-88 International Paper (IP) Strike in Jay, Maine. Julius Getman...

The Myth of the Powerless State.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Myth of the Powerless State. By Linda Weiss. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 260 pp. $45 cloth. $17.95 paper. Linda Weiss opens her insightful book with the chapter title "The State is Dead: Long Live the State." The heading...

Workers' Compensation: A Reference and Guide.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Workers' Compensation: A Reference and Guide. By Peter M. Lencsis. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1998. 192 pp. $59.95 cloth. While the subject of this book is workers' compensation, the book's subtitle aptly describes its usefulness. As a...

Your Rights in the Workplace. Third Edition.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Your Rights in the Workplace. Third Edition. By Barbara Kate Repa. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1997. 492 pp. $19.95 paper. At the beginning of this book, the author assumes that the reader is either curious, cautious, or most likely an...

Changing By Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Changing By Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard. By Deone Zell. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1997. 161 pp. If you are looking for an in-depth ethnographic account of how difficult it is for a major company to achieve far-reaching...

All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek.(Review)
June 22, 2000... All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. By Elizabeth Jameson. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 367 pp. $60 cloth, $23.95 paper. You read about the decade of victories strung together a...

Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry. Edited by Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. 272 pp. $32.95 cloth. These nine essays, which were...

Wasn't That a Time? Growing Up Radical and Red in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Wasn't That a Time? Growing Up Radical and Red in America. By Robert Schrank. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998. 452 pp. $30 cloth. Wasn't That a Time? is Robert Schrank's autobiography. Schrank was born in 1917 to a radical German...

Burning Valley.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Burning Valley. By Phillip Bonosky. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998 (1953). 288 PP. $15.95 paper. Burning Valley is a reprint of a 1953 novel in the series The Radical Novel Reconsidered, which is edited by Alan...