Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1996

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1996

An explanatory model of participation in union activity.
March 22, 1996... Introduction The level of member participation in the union, the behavioral component of union commitment, is a prime concern of labor organizations. The effectiveness of union recruitment drives, collective bargaining, and political action is...

The continental classroom: teaching labour studies on-line.
March 22, 1996... Athabasca University is an open, distance university located in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada. Its mandate is to break down barriers that traditionally restrict access to university-level education. This mandate is interpreted broadly to include...

Too little, too late: the limits of stand-alone arbitration in discharge cases.
March 22, 1996... The last two decades have seen a continued decline in union representation and bargaining, judicial erosion of the longstanding "employment-at-will" (EAW) doctrine, and a shift of emphasis from labor law, the law of collective labor relations, to...

Unions and NAFTA's legislative passage: confrontation and cover. (North American Free Trade Agreement)
March 22, 1996... Introduction Since the days of Gompers, unions at all levels have attempted to achieve some of their objectives through political means. Not surprisingly, then, academic debate about the role and influence of unions on the national political...

Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition.
March 22, 1996... The comprehensive volume on wage labor that Marx at one time intended to include as part of Das Kapital Howard Botwinick's book may not be. But he has thought hard and deeply about the important and perennial conundrum of why workers of the same...

Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs: Employment and Unemployment in the United States.
March 22, 1996... Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs discusses the changes in the nature of jobs, employment, and unemployment in the United States over the past half-century. The first five chapters outline the problem: good jobs are disappearing and in order to make ends...

The Changing U.S. Labor Market.
March 22, 1996... This book addresses the fact that the American labor force has doubled from 60 to over 120 million during the past three decades, but along with this explosive growth of jobs there have been important problems of dislocation, and growing...

Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization.
March 22, 1996... If labor educators, negotiators, activists, and attorneys can read only one book about pay equity, Michael McCann's Rights at Work would be my recommendation. The book is an exceptionally comprehensive and readable assessment of the impact of...

The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States.
March 22, 1996... Noticeably absent from the flood of books on workplace change has been a comprehensive analysis of progress to date. This study represents an important step in filling that gap. Drawing upon previously published survey data, the authors paint a...

Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.
March 22, 1996... If you were to ask any two people to identify the key to Japan's economic success, at least one would claim that it grew directly from that country's unique, homogeneous culture. Using this observation as their starting point, the authors of...

African Labor Relations and Workers' Rights: Assessing the Role of the International Labor Organizations.
March 22, 1996... African Labor Relations and Workers' Rights addresses the degree to which African states have failed to conform to the International Labor Organization's (ILO) standards and why. The author is particularly concerned with ILO Conventions No. 87...

Confessions of a Union Buster.
March 22, 1996... In this well-written book, Marty Levitt, with the help of writer Terry Conrow, recounts his days as a highly successful union-busting consultant. Levitt spent 20 years as a self-confessed con-man and terrorist masquerading as a "labor relations...

Portraits in Steel.
March 22, 1996... Visual and verbal portraits nicely complement each other: oral historians often value cameras as fondly as tape recorders. Edward D. Ives of the University of Maine admits in his The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore...

Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers.
March 22, 1996... Cold War in the Working Class is a first rate institutional history of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE). The UE was at one time the third largest union in the CIO, and was its most successful union with left wing leadership. It was...

Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Lipin's Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians is an important contribution to the literature on working-class political culture in the nineteenth-century United States. By focusing on two small industrial cities on the Ohio River, New...

Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968.
March 22, 1996... Just as racial issues have caused Americans to confront the meaning and application of their democratic ideals, they have provided the American labor movement with challenges and opportunities. In this book, Alan Draper, a political scientist,...

Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s.
March 22, 1996... This book is about working class culture in the immediate post-WWII United States. It sketches the famous and not-so-famous "stars" of that working class culture. The hard drinking genius of Hank Williams is examined; from his malnourished youth,...

Worker Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990.
March 22, 1996... The focal point of an emerging radicalism in early Twentieth Century America is the story of one Midwestern worker-writer, Jack Conroy. Conroy, whose development and popularity as a writer occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, was the author of a...

Dying for a Job: Workers' Stories About Safety. A Dialogue with Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by Rich Klimmer, American Federation of Teachers This video of a town hall style meeting conducted on Workers' Memorial Day, 1994 will make any human being angry. Union activists will be further affected by the way in which it reveals...

Changing the Way We Work.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by Rich Klimmer, American Federation of Teachers This very professionally produced video opens with a montage of workers' images and buzzwords such as "empowerment," "cooperation," "quality" and "competitiveness." Its subject is one...

Songs of Solidarity: Solidarity Day '91.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by William A. Pelz, DePaul University A delightful medley of performances from the massive Solidarity Day rally of August 31, 1991 are preserved on this video. While it is impossible to do justice to the rich melodies and inspiring...

Sit Down and Fight: Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers' Union.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by William A. Pelz, DePaul University At first glance, the success of Walter Reuther and the United Auto Workers (UAW) seems improbable. After all, the Big Three auto makers - Ford, GM and Chrysler - had a power over their work force...