Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1997

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1997

Visions of success: national leaders' views on union effectiveness.
March 22, 1997... Although unions gained members in 1993 and 1994, unions once again lost members in 1995, resuming a decline in absolute numbers that has spanned more than a decade. In relative terms (membership as a percentage of the labor force), union decline...

Factors differentiating union and nonunion organizations: some evidence from Canada.
March 22, 1997... Introduction With declining union density in a number of countries and a growing recognition that nonunion organizations have generally been ignored by industrial relations scholars, researchers are beginning to place additional attention on...

The emerging significance of Internet patterns of association.
March 22, 1997... Traditionally, the pooling of expertise for the expression and exchange of ideas and knowledge has been accomplished in the context of close physical proximity (e.g., academic institutions, committees, or work teams) or organizational affiliation...

The effects of workplace-based college degree programs on the academic persistence rates of selected automobile workers: a pilot study.
March 22, 1997... The purpose of this study was to attempt to determine whether the existence of workplace-based college degree programs in automobile manufacturing plants had an effect on the academic persistence rates of automobile workers who utilize their...

Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry.
March 22, 1997... Projecting Capitalism shows that construction is not always local, immune from international competition. For over a century, contractors have competed for building projects across borders, especially in North America and Europe. Contractors...

Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy.
March 22, 1997... Comparative industrial relations studies still give us new vistas, new perspectives on labor problems and labor issues in the United States. But how do we fit the vast amount of often confusing broad-brush and nitty-gritty details of our own and...

The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy.
March 22, 1997... The process of economic globalization in the last century has produced an interesting twist in the relationship between capital and labor. In the nineteenth century, labor was highly mobile and capital was relatively fixed. Birds of passage...

Autowork.
March 22, 1997... Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth have edited a book of original essays on the complex nature of autowork. Written from the workers' perspective, and employing mostly union sources, the book essentially highlights the autoworkers' struggle against...

The CIO: 1935-1955.
March 22, 1997... In the first sentence of the introduction, Robert Zieger states that he set out to write an "archives-based history of the industrial union federation." He has impressively accomplished his goal. Relying exclusively on the formal records of CIO...

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60.
March 22, 1997... Historians have reconstructed in impressive detail the extraordinary extent to which the early post-World War II period was a turning point for labor-capital relations in the United States. Elizabeth Fones-Wolf inserts another facet into the...

Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther.
March 22, 1997... Bill Goode has written a well reasoned and interesting account of Walter Reuther's initial 1946 presidential election and his 1947 convention successes. The first chapter surveys early UAW organizing history and the subsequent left/right...

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order.
March 22, 1997... This ambitious political history of the UAW demonstrates how the New Deal political framework has undermined both the ability of this country to compete in global markets and the range of democratic options available for ordering the economy....

Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics: Labor Politics in American Life.
March 22, 1997... In Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics, William Form has set out to disprove the efficacy of class theory argued in 1969 by David Greenstone in Labor in American Politics. According to Form, organized labor's political behavior has been...

Constraints and Impacts of Privatization.
March 22, 1997... The occasionally rancorous debate around the world on the subject of "privatization" is continued in this important and informative book. Based on a set of papers by internationally recognized experts on the subject, this work presents research...

Social Protection Versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-off?
March 22, 1997... Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility consists of eleven papers that explore and compare the effects of social protection policies on labor markets in the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan. Both the excellent introduction by the editor,...

Labor Arbitration: An Annotated Bibliography.
March 22, 1997... This bibliography appears at a time when the field of labor arbitration is going through much soul searching. With the contraction of collective bargaining and the retirement of many senior practitioners it is unclear how prominent grievance...

American Workers, American Unions, 2d ed.
March 22, 1997... Robert Zieger has produced a second edition of his survey of the American labor movement from 1920-1985, carrying the story forward into the 1990s. Describing his work as "the civic history of American workers since 1920," Zieger makes an...

The New Left and Labor in the 1960s.
March 22, 1997... This interesting and complex study attempts to unravel the relationship that existed between student radicals, civil rights workers, the counterculture and organized labor during a very tumultuous and misunderstood period of American history. The...