Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1995

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1995

Contracting out in New York State: the story the Lauder Report chose not to tell!
March 22, 1995... Introduction In New York State an attempt has been made by privatization ideologues to create a climate of panic and inevitability around the transfer of otherwise public services to the private sector. Current governmental financial and...

NAFTA and the EC "social dimension." (North American Free Trade Agreement; European Community)
March 22, 1995... In the early 1980s, references to "Eurosclerosis," a critical theme in advancing the project of a post-1992 Single European Market (SEM), were in great measure driven by invidious comparison with the United States. Prodigious job growth in the...

Economic regulation, employment relations, and accident rates in the U.S. motor carrier industry.
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction In 1980, deregulation of the U.S. motor carrier industry created highly competitive market conditions. Firms accustomed to forty-five years of market protection were suddenly confronted with numerous low-cost competitors and...

Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby.
March 22, 1995... The author of this book dislikes labels, so I will refrain from attaching any to him. His book is exceedingly well written, the obvious product of a scholarly mind at work examining some of the most controversial issues of the day in affirmative...

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers.
March 22, 1995... The black civil rights movement and the labor movement have always been closely connected, but rarely examined in such a thorough and thoughtful manner as Michael Honey's case study on organizing workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Although not...

The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present.
March 22, 1995... This is a very ambitious book. Jacqueline Jones, whose previous work concentrated on black history, expands the inquiry here to "illuminate the historic forces of marginalization that engulfed the poor," black and white, in post-Civil War...

If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left.
March 22, 1995... Maurice Isserman, a product of the New Left of the 1960s, is becoming our foremost historian of the Old Left, primarily the Communist party. His detailed research and clear writing style, combined with a critical empathy for the Left, has...

Police Under Pressure: Resolving Disputes.
March 22, 1995... Police Under Pressure: Resolving Disputes presents sixty-four summaries of arbitration cases between police officers and police departments. Each of the first eight chapters examines a cluster of conflicts related to a particular aspect of police...

The Grievance Process in Labor Management Cooperation.
March 22, 1995... The central propositions of this book are built around the premise that traditional, adversarial collective bargaining, based on the use of relative power, has diminishing returns. Cooperation is an option parties who have reached the point of...

Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association.
March 22, 1995... The Brown Lung Association originated during the decade of the 1970s in a series of mill towns located primarily along Horse Creek between Aiken, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. Within "the Valley" there resided approximately 400,000 men...

New Immigrants. Old Unions: Organizing Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles.
March 22, 1995... Hector Delgado debunks the "conventional wisdom" that undocumented workers are unorganizable. He says they have been unfairly blamed for diminishing labor's strength without sufficient study. Since they tend to be employed in secondary labor...

Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought.
March 22, 1995... Bettering Our Condition is a philosophical work examining the ethical foundations of the role of work and workers in different economic theories. The author covers classic English thinkers Adam Smith and David Ricardo, as well as German theorists...