Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1992

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1992

A new approach to decision-making research in labor arbitration using alcohol and drug disciplinary case.
September 22, 1992... The literature related to arbitrators and their decision-making practices has expanded over the past thirty years. While issues related to labor arbitration have been examined extensively, little information is available regarding the...

Unionism and altruism. (union voting research)
September 22, 1992... Since the late 1970s and particularly Kochan's seminal article(1) on U.S. workers' views of unions, a virtual explosion of studies on individual workers' attitudes and intentions toward unionization has occurred. The vast majority of these...

Employer financial information and wage bargaining: issues and evidence.
September 22, 1992... Are employer finances relevant to employee wage rates? Many union officials would argue that they are not. Nonetheless, claims of economic hardship by employers are relatively common during wage negotiations. Union wage proposals, too, are...

Despatches from a foreign front: the decline of workers' education in U.K. universities.
September 22, 1992... "Academic Freedom and the Labour Movement," ibid. Writing in this journal in 1984, Al Nash noted that U.K. labor educators "were almost unanimously pessimistic about what the future will bring."(1) This pessimism has, to a degree, proved...

The Politics of Plant Closings.
September 22, 1992... Portz presents a clearly written series of cases studies and a much needed analytical framework that examines the diversity of local municipal responses to plant closings. The book opens by examining the dynamics of the urban political economy...

Changing Labor's Image: A Union Member's Guide.
September 22, 1992... This booklet addresses, in a very practical manner, an issue of concern both to trade unionists and supporters of the labor movement: the negative stereotypes held by many members of the public of the American labor movement. Labor's public...

Passing the Torch: The Influence of Economic Incentives on Work and Retirement.
September 22, 1992... The authors (QBM) "focus on the economic determinants of retirement within a public policy framework." They are concerned that defined benefit "pensions--and to some extent Social Security--are designed to make sure that workers do not stay on...

Women Changing Work.
September 22, 1992... At a time when diversity in the workplace is a critical topic for labor educators, Women Changing Work by Patricia Lunneborg makes a substantial contribution to the growing body of literature on the subject. While many acknowledge women's...

What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement.
September 22, 1992... Entitled What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement and written by Julia Swindells and Lisa Jardine, this book has an exceptionally broad sweep. Into the stew march English poets and artists; contemporary intellectuals associated...

Women Workers in the First World War.
September 22, 1992... This book deals with the plight of working women in English munitions plants during World War I. The book is written from the feminist perspective and is very critical of the role played not only by employers, but also by male-dominated unions...

Labour in British Society: An Interpretative History.
September 22, 1992... Until the 1960s, historians of British labour studied how a movement had grown to maturity. The working class generated well-organized trade unions from the late nineteenth century, and a political party based on a broadly socialist programme...

A Celebration of Work.
September 22, 1992... Norman Best's autobiography offers a unique look at a blue-collar worker's life-long dedication to craftsmanship, union organizing, and political activism. Covering the 1920s through the 1970s, he interweaves personal accounts of highway...

Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Workers in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh.
September 22, 1992... A growing body of historical literature is dealing with the rise of clerical work at beginning of the twentieth century and particularly with the feminization of the clerical work force. Previously on these pages, I have reviewed Lisa Fine's...

The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, 1880-1940.
September 22, 1992... Ton Korver's book offers a reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor market from the late nineteenth century until the end of the New Deal. It is not based on primary sources and does not attempt to uncover new facts or events. Rather,...

Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.
September 22, 1992... In Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Lizabeth Cohen deals with an epoch of U.S. labor history dealt with many times before, though certainly not from her perspective. Unlike nineteenth century labor history, the...

The State and Labor in Modern Japan.
September 22, 1992... In recent years considerable attention has been focused on the industrial relations system in Japan. Garon's book provides important background information on the history of the Japanese labor movement, the role of the Japanese government in...

Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Political Writings, 1921-1926.
September 22, 1992... Antonio Gramsci was arguably the most important Western European Marxist of the twentieth century. Gramsci's writings span a period of twenty-seven years from 1910 through 1937 when he died at the age of forty-six as a result of eleven years of...

Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.
September 22, 1992... Weapons of the Weak investigates everyday forms of resistance among the poor peasantry in the village of Sedaka, Kedah, Malaysia. In Scott's analysis, the concept of resistance is a broad one, not just confined to overt or collective forms of...