Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1993

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1993

Building union commitment among new members: the role of formal and informal socialization.
September 22, 1993... The viability of the labor movement as a significant institution in American society is, at the most fundamental level, dependent on unions generating commitment among members and potential members. The effectiveness of labor organizations at the...

The union role in labor-management cooperation: a case study at the Boise Cascade Company's Jackson mill.
September 22, 1993... Introduction Labor education classes that discuss labor-management cooperative (L-MC) programs usually occur in response to demands of local union officers for training after management makes it an issue in contract negotiations or attempts to...

Collective Voices: The Textile Strike of 1912.
September 22, 1993... Once when I was teaching a course in film theory a student turned in a paper on a Renoir film. At first I thought the argument sounded familiar. Then the words themselves started to become recognizable. The student had plagiarized the work of...

Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union.
September 22, 1993... |This review was originally published in The Dispatcher, the newspaper of the International Longshoreman and Warehousemen's Union. It was written by Gene Dennis Vrana, the ILWU Librarian and Archivist, and reprinted with permission.~ In recent...

A new tool for collective bargaining.
September 22, 1993... Introduction In many negotiations, relationships are strained as each party struggles to argue its position. In negotiations between a union and management the financial statements and operating results are often a focal point in positioning....

Learning about health care cost containment: the CWA-Bell South case. (health care program negotiations between the Communication Workers of America and BellSouth Co.)
September 22, 1993... Health care costs have skyrocketed 100 percent since 1980. The government and the private sector have found health care cost difficult to control since the 1970s when inflation prompted a dramatic surge in costs. Today, health care costs consume...

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure.
September 22, 1993... The Overworked American is a look at the way our brand of capitalism functions in the area of worktime. We Americans work longer hours per week and year than any other "advanced" society. How come? For one thing, we are driven to consume more...

Joint Training Programs: A Union-Management Approach to Preparing Workers for the Future.
September 22, 1993... The many examples of labor management cooperation in this book prove how unsound is the notion that in matters of employee training and education, unions cannot exercise foresight, cooperation and good judgment. This volume explores...

Rethinking Labour-Management Relations: The Case for Arbitration.
September 22, 1993... Arguing for an arbitration-centered labor relations framework is problematic at best. Historically, the strike-based system is considered far superior to any alternative. Bruce and Carby-Hall, authors of Rethinking Labour-Management Relations,...

The Future of Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the Second Bargaining Group Conference.
September 22, 1993... The Future of Industrial Relations is a series of papers presented to a May 1991 conference by some of the leading English-speaking industrial relations academics in the United States and abroad. The result is an interesting but highly diverse...

Avoiding the Cracks: A Guide to the Workers' Compensation System.
September 22, 1993... This book is a general overview of the workers' compensation system in the United States with special emphasis on the roles and perspectives of the various "players" involved: injured workers, medical providers, employers, insurance companies,...

Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies For Occupational Health.
September 22, 1993... Professor Robinson explores the strategies and options available to workers to deal with the risks posed by toxic substances. He identifies and critiques four worker responses to occupational health risks: the "exit" (or quit) option, the "voice"...

In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk.
September 22, 1993... There is a great concern about substances that cause cancer, given that one-in-three Americans develops cancer and one in four dies of it. There is also widespread belief that we can attribute cancer to chemicals in our food and water, our places...

Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
September 22, 1993... In her study of waitresses in the twentieth century, Dorothy Sue Cobble embarks on an elaborate path to integrate institutional history with that of the more recent social history. Although at times rather strained, Cobble nonetheless...

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
September 22, 1993... For the casual or general reader of labor history, this book is too dense and difficult to read; however, for the serious student or specialist in the field, this book is too important to miss. While William Forbath's effort reads like the...

After Marx, Before Lenin: Marxism and Socialist Working-Class Parties in Europe, 1884-1914.
September 22, 1993... How Marxian were the socialist parties of Europe between the death of Marx and the onset of World War I? Gary Steenson, who has written two previous monographs on European Marxism in this period, explores the efforts of workers' political...

The Proletarian Movement: The Controversy Over Leftism in Literature.
September 22, 1993... The 1970s and 1980s witnessed the renascence of a vital Marxist criticism that owed much to an earlier period of American letters. Now that Marxism, at least as a political institution, is in the dustbin of history, James Murphy in a...

Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution: 1910-1924.
September 22, 1993... Shoulder to Shoulder? is an analysis of the reaction of organized labor to the Mexican Revolution and the role of Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor in the formation of foreign policy between the United States and Mexico from...

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
September 22, 1993... Hard issues of race and class continue to manifest themselves in our world, from the Los Angeles uprising after four policemen were acquitted for brutally beating an African-American man, to Eastern Europe, where ethnic divisions create...