Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1998

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1998

Working, playing, and fighting for control: steelworkers and shopfloor identity.
March 22, 1998... Theories of industrial democracy posit that workers maintain certain democratic rights in the workplace. As originally expressed by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, democratic principles are protected and codified in institutional forms of worker...

Protecting workers' rights in Mexico: local conciliation and arbitration boards, union registration, and conflict resolution in the 1990s.
March 22, 1998... The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its parallel labor agreement, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), have focused new attention on the operation of Mexico's labor justice system. Although...

Power, politics, and the union woman.
March 22, 1998... As the presidential election of 1996 neared, the media sharpened their focus on the role of women in determining the outcome of the race. The chase is on for women's votes, declared political commentator and former candidate Harriett Woods;...

The rise of South African trade unions.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Union membership levels fell in most developed countries during the 1980s - a trend that has continued into the 1990s. In the United States, union membership decreased from 22 percent to 16 percent of the workforce between 1980...

Contract Bargaining Handbook for Local Union Leaders.
March 22, 1998... Maurice Better's 1993 Contract Bargaining Handbook guides union negotiators through a useful step-by-step approach to collective bargaining. The handbook, expressly written for local union bargaining committee members, emphasizes tactics,...

How to Prepare and Present a Labor Arbitration Case: Strategy and Tactics for Advocates.
March 22, 1998... Let's say that you are getting ready to present your first, fifteenth, or even fiftieth arbitration and you don't have the back-up that you feel you need. This "how-to" guide for advocates is an excellent choice for your library. Focusing on the...

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace: Concepts and Techniques for Human Resource Executives and Their Counsel.
March 22, 1998... Labor educators will recognize ADR (alternative dispute resolution) as a strategic counterpart for the union grievance process, an appealing alternative to costly courtroom litigation, an attractive career option for experienced mediators and...

The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation.
March 22, 1998... Labor educators, labor historians, and labor leaders will find this updated edition of The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation of great interest. It is a thought-provoking book, originally published in 1988, which is...

Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality.
March 22, 1998... What are the links between the opportunity the American Ethos promises and the denial of equality actually experienced by employees? How much of the culture of a modern bureaucracy can be explained by the disparity between opportunity structures...

Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s.
March 22, 1998... This small, balanced volume distills the work of the Dunlop Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations into a concise, readable and engaging discussion of the state of U.S. labor law and its relationship to industrial relations...

Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational Drinking Culture.
March 22, 1998... Alcohol has been a part of working class life in America since colonial days when rum was considered part of wages. It is not news that drinking, in any number of jobs, is a major part of the occupational culture. The hard-drinking journalist and...

Are There Alternatives? Socialist Register 1996.
March 22, 1998... One of the greatest challenges facing progressives in the current era is to convince people who are struggling for social justice that there are alternatives to present social and economic arrangements. Of course, this project has been made much...

The Case for Tenure.
March 22, 1998... This is a book for everyone because the tenure issue affects everyone. While most of the focus of the tenure debate is on teachers, the fact is, parents, students, school boards, politicians, civil libertarians, industrial relations...

Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations.
March 22, 1998... Unlike the United States, labor relations in Europe have developed out of a particular corporatist tradition. This corporatism is defined by Hans Slomp as a relationship between capital and labor "characterized by tri-partism . . . social...

Conditions of Work Digest: Working Time Around the World, vol. 14.
March 22, 1998... The 1995 volume of the International Labour Office's Conditions of Work Digest is a valuable resource for academics and activists. If you're like me, to get your hands on trends in or regulations about work time in various countries, you must...

Privatization and Economic Performance.
March 22, 1998... An enduring legacy of politics in the 1980s that transcended both sides of the Atlantic Ocean was the extensive efforts of Reaganomics and Thatcherism to privatize government services. What that meant in detail often varied within each country...

Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries.
March 22, 1998... Freer Markets, More Rules seeks to combat some widely held ideas about the impact of "globalization" and the alleged "deregulation revolution" in the 1980s and 1990s. Vogel argues that globally, the deregulation revolution never happened. True,...

Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream.
March 22, 1998... This is a book for labor educators and unionists looking for short succinct articles that provide hard commentary on the contemporary experience of American workers and offer advice on what to do about it. The book is a compendium of articles...