Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1993

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1993

Rationalizing the irrationality of the shop floor: a reinterpretation of Juravich's 'Chaos on the Shop Floor.'
March 22, 1993... Tom Juravich, in his provoking industrial ethnography entitled Chaos on the Shop Floor--A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (Temple University Press, 1985), argues that the American system of industrial production is largely...

Grievance and arbitration trends within the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226.
March 22, 1993... Introduction The Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, AFL-CIO, located in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest culinary local in the United States. It represents nearly 40,000 Nevada workers employed in virtually every job classification in the...

The internal politics of trade unions: the neglected view of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
March 22, 1993... Curiously, and unfortunately, some of the finest original empirical and theoretical work on trade unionism -- conducted in the 1890s by Sidney and Beatrice Webb -- is today largely neglected in the United States. According to Hyman, "it is...

The effects of advance notice on displaced manufacturing workers: a case study.
March 22, 1993... After fourteen years of lobbying by organized labor, federal legislation requiring advance notice of plant shutdowns was enacted in August 1988 in the Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification Act (WARN). The legislation mandates employers...

Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement.
March 22, 1993... The concept of this book -- to examine innovative efforts of unions in a variety of areas -- is an intriguing and valuable idea. Unfortunately, as Shostak notes, information on new union initiatives is difficult to come by. Although this volume...

Unfit to Manage! How Mis-Management Endangers America and What Working People Can Do About It.
March 22, 1993... Few books I have used in 15 years of teaching industrial sociology to unionists have earned as much praise as this book, and the decision, therefore, by McGraw-Hill neither to publish a paperback edition or to reprint the first cloth edition is...

Does Training Work for Displaced Workers? A Survey of Existing Evidence.
March 22, 1993... Both of these books report on studies designed to test the efficacy of employment and training programs for dislocated workers. Back to Work by Howard Bloom is a detailed in-depth study of demonstration projects in Texas. These Texas projects are...

Debt, Taxes, and Corporate Restructuring.
March 22, 1993... The basic assumptions associated with corporate finance changed remarkably during the last decade. Prior to 1980, corporations sold equity, had little debt, and their shareholders received income in the form of dividends. But during the 1980s,...

Safety in the Use of Industrial Robots, Occupational and Safety and Health Series No. 60. Geneva: International Labor Office.
March 22, 1993... Brief, understandable and complete, would best describe this primer on robot safety. If we can accept the idea that "less is more," this well written and illustrated, comprehensive sixty nine-page publication packs an informing punch. The...

Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement.
March 22, 1993... In this insightful study, Linda Blum analyzes the role played by two major actors in the comparable worth movement: organized labor and the feminist movement. Relying on two case studies of public sector comparable worth efforts in Northern...

The Mediator Revisited: Profile of a Profession, 1960s and 1985.
March 22, 1993... In The Mediator Revisited author Ruth Necheles-Jansyn reports her findings regarding a replication of two 1960s surveys on the mediation profession, originally conducted by the Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations. Among the...

Remedies in Arbitration, 2nd ed.
March 22, 1993... Marvin F. Hill, Jr. and Anthony V. Sinicropi, two prominent arbitrators, have revised and updated their 1981 book on the remedial authority of arbitrators. This edition expands on the role of remedies while examining a wide variety of cases in...

It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America.
March 22, 1993... There is a curious sameness to these thirty-four accounts of American political persecution which I couldn't put my finger on until Frances Lardner spoke of the effect on their children when Ring Lardner, Jr., one of the Hollywood Ten, was sent...

A Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government.
March 22, 1993... There is an inherent assumption in many organizations that people desire and wish to participate. In the United States, governmental institutions are typically characterized as fundamentally democratic, relying on a basic view that "the people,"...

Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932.
March 22, 1993... In the last decade no press series has been more instrumental in pressing labor history in new directions, in offering new analytical orientations and theoretical frameworks, and in presenting insightful views into the lives of workers than the...

Letters of Eugene V. Debs.
March 22, 1993... Eugene Debs was certainly one of the most important figures in the entire history of the American labor movement. His half century of involvement touched on every critical theme ever raised in labor activism: craft unionism and industrial...

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers.
March 22, 1993... The essays in Masters to Managers provide points of entry into, and help define the boundaries of an emerging interdisciplinary field: employer history. Despite "the pivotal role that employers play in the workplace and in the larger industrial...

The Labor Leader, A Novel.
March 22, 1993... Harry Kelber's novel, The Labor Leader, is a densely woven tale about Marty Somers, aging president of the retail clerks union in New York. The author's competent but lifeless prose is at times redeemed by the passionate lives led by the book's...