Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1992

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1992

Employee socialization strategies and the presence of union representation.
March 22, 1992... The employee socialization practices at two geographically separated plants of the same manufacturing company were examined. The plants were virtually identical in several respects with the notable exception of union representation at one of...

Efficiency is not enough. (Need for more worker participation at work)
March 22, 1992... All contemporary innovations tend to be evaluated against the criterion of efficiency. There are, however, other qualities that are essential to a dignified existence. In a democratic nation it is fundamental that all citizens be able to...

Responding to technological innovation: unions and cell manufacturing.
March 22, 1992... This article examines the reasons why unions must use proactive approaches to technological innovation in general and cell manufacturing in particular. We summarize die cell manufacturing concept and outline some of its implications for...

Toward a better understanding of unions: an education program for future managers.
March 22, 1992... This article describes and reports results of a labor education program for future managers. The three-year pilot program, sponsored by the Communications Workers of America, was designed to achieve the neglected labor education goal of...

Poletown: Community Betrayed.
March 22, 1992... This book is the story of a community in Detroit which was destroyed in the early 1980s to make way for a new General Motors plant. More than 4,200 residents lost their homes in this traditionally Polish neighborhood when it was razed to...

The Cruikshank Chronicles: Anecdotes, Stories and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal.
March 22, 1992... Nelson Cruikshank retired from his position as director of the AFL-CIO's Department of Social Insurance shortly after the passage of the Medicare Act in 1965. Early in his life, Nelson committed himself to the creation of a society in which...

Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780 - 1910.
March 22, 1992... In Men, Women and Work, Mary Blewett has crafted an extraordinarily rich account of the working lives of men and women in the New England shoe industry in the nineteenth century. The interrelationships of men and women workers during the...

Men's Work, Women's Work: A Sociological History of the Sexual Division of Labour in Employment.
March 22, 1992... In an age when scholars have yet to explain in any meaningful way the persistence of the sexual division of labor in the workplace, Harriet Bradley makes a substantial contribution in a recent work that reveals the nature, origins, patterns,...

The Roots of Community Organizing: 1917-1939.
March 22, 1992... "Community organization" is a nebulous term, which can be employed to describe the manner in which social service agencies endeavor to involve their clients in the solution of their problems, structured entities such as United Way campaign...

The Employment Contract: Rights and Duties of Employers and Employees.
March 22, 1992... This is not a book for everyone with an interest in labor law. As the dust jacket synopsis states, the book is intended for personnel management practitioners. Practitioners may find the book useful since it touches on the broad array of...

Discharge for Cause: Arbitral Enforcement Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
March 22, 1992... Douglas H. Thompson is an arbitrator and former administrative law judge of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. The author's experience is evident in this monograph, in which he argues that an arbitrator's analysis of whether...

The Management of Labor Unions: Decision Making with Historical Constraints.
March 22, 1992... John Dunlop, former Secretary of Labor, one time Harvard University Dean, economist, arbitrator, mediator and advisor to national union presidents, is uniquely well qualified to write a book about the management of unions. His has been a...

Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day.
March 22, 1992... Our Own Time is an overview and analysis of American workers' struggle for shorter hours from the colonial period to the present. It is a "must-read" for labor historians but would also be appropriate to workers' education classes. While...

Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868.
March 22, 1992... In the Summer and Fall of 1862, during the height of the Civil War, reports of widespread opposition to military conscription by immigrant coalminers led the Federal government to dispatch troops to the anthracite region of northeastern...

The Law and Occupational Injury, Diseases, and Death.
March 22, 1992... This is a brief, wide ranging but selective treatment of legal issues related to occupational injuries. The book is intended for professionals, practitioners or those seeking an entree to this subject area. Because it is not a detailed,...

Encyclopedia of the American Left.
March 22, 1992... The Encyclopedia of the American Left is a considerable accomplishment. Overall, the editors have done a great job of collecting and presenting a set of succinct writings on the main currents, figures, organizations, and issues of the U.S....

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.
March 22, 1992... What is the most effective lens through which to view a protracted and bitter labor dispute? Traditional labor histories offer the perspectives of union leaders, owners, government officials, even law enforcement operatives. In more recent...

Overtime: Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine, Worker Writer Anthology, 1979-1989.
March 22, 1992... A new and significant addition to workplace literature has emerged from the ranks of worker writers. Standing tall with similar cooperative efforts in San Francisco (Waterfront Writers and Artists) and Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Industrial...

U.S. Labor Relations, 1945-1989: Accommodation and Conflict.
March 22, 1992... Titles are deceptive in the publishing world today and Bruce Nissen's latest collection of essays is no exception. Although said to focus on labor relations in the context of accommodation and conflict, this theme is virtually non-existent in...

Women, Minorities and Unions in the Public Sector.
March 22, 1992... The author maintains in chapter one that there are shortcomings in public policy processes dealing with the enhancement of the employment status of women and minorities caused by overlooking the involvement of unions in the public sector. She...

Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America.
March 22, 1992... Laurie's account of the changeover of artisans into workers should prove valuable to a wide audience interested in either our contemporary workplace transformations or how, historically, self-sufficient craftsmen and farmers evolved intro...

The Medical Triangle: Physicians, Politicians and the Public.
March 22, 1992... In August 1989, about a hundred nurses' aides and employees of a rural nursing home in Butler County, Pennsylvania rallied in front of the County Court House. In an era of protest that in itself was not so significant, but the grievances of...

Labor Law Handbook.
March 22, 1992... Labor Law Handbook provides a readable and affordable overview of labor law for the rank and file. The author, Michael Yates, reviews the major labor and employment laws in an easy-to-read style. Included are plentiful examples and...

The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870 - 1930.
March 22, 1992... Lisa Fine has written an interesting and useful book about an important transformation in turn of the century employment patterns: the entry into and eventual domination of clerical occupations by women. Her focus is on Chicago during the...

The White Collar Working Class: From Structure to Politics.
March 22, 1992... By the mid-1980s, more than half the U.S. labor force was working in white collar jobs, those involving nonmanual work, usually in an office setting. In this book, Political scientist Richard Sobel asks whether the growing numbers of white...