Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1994

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1994

Regional distributions of corporate and union power: a case study of the UAW. (United Auto Workers)
September 22, 1994... The decline of labor unions in the United States has reached crisis proportions.(1) Since 1953 when 34 percent of U.S. workers were members of unions, the percentage of workers in unions has fallen to 16 percent. One of America's largest unions,...

An antiunion corporate culture and quality improvement programs.
September 22, 1994... For some thirty years after World War II, American manufacturers dominated world markets. Many unionized employers shared the fruits of the expanding economic pie with their employees in return for union acceptance of management rights. Based on...

The changing situation of U.S. labor law: alternative legislative initiatives for workers and workplaces.
September 22, 1994... Theorizing about the causes and consequences of the long-term and continuing decline in union density in the United States--from almost 40 percent in the mid-fifties to barely over 10 percent in the private sector in 1993--has generated a...

Predictors of unionization: the role of specific beliefs, general beliefs, and normative pressures.
September 22, 1994... The decline of U.S. union representation from roughly 33 percent of the labor force to less than 17 percent over the past thirty years has been well documented and explored by various researchers. Most of the scholars agree that external causes,...

Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership.
September 22, 1994... In the introduction to Women and Unions, Dorothy Sue Cobble declares that working women and the labor movement are interdependent. The ability of organized labor to recognize the problems of working women will determine whether women are forced...

The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class and Power.
September 22, 1994... This book is a collection of essays originally published in the author's commentary series appearing in newspapers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and India from 1988 to 1991. Specific topics include the following: the health care...

The New Unemployed: Joblessness and Poverty in the Market Economy.
September 22, 1994... It is not news to anyone that the market economies of the European Community and the United States are undergoing structural changes, experiencing low levels of growth, and must cope with serious unemployment problems. Against this backdrop, The...

The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective.
September 22, 1994... Why do employers act the way they do? While the study of workers and labor organizations acknowledges various motivations and behavioral models, research on managerial strategies, this volume argues, has all too often "given little causal weight...

Honesty in the Workplace.
September 22, 1994... Authored by an academic psychologist, this matter-of-fact and colorless volume can help labor educators assess recent research on this incredibly broad topic, advise unionists how to deal with its implications and weigh direct involvement...

Eastern's Armageddon: Labor Conflict and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines.
September 22, 1994... The bitter struggle between the Air Line Pilots' Association and Eastern Airlines from 1986 to 1991 resulted in the loss of more than forty thousand jobs--most of them pilots, machinists, transport workers, and flight attendants. For labor, the...

Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations in the Commonwealth Caribbean: History, Contemporary Practice and Prospect.
September 22, 1994... This slender volume reviews the "origin, character and contemporary practice" of, and prospects for, Commonwealth Caribbean unions. Nurse notes that since the mid-1960s, while increased government intervention has been anti-union in character,...

The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo.
September 22, 1994... Historian John French of Duke University has produced a major work which contributes both to Brazilian labor and working class studies, and to unraveling the mystery of Brazilian populism. It covers the period 1900-1950, but its strengths lie in...

Labor in the Puerto Rican Economy: Postwar Development and Stagnation.
September 22, 1994... "This study is concerned with economic efficiency," observes Carlos Santiago in his preface. "In particular, it focuses on efficiency in the use of human resources in the course of industrialization. Human resources," he reminds us, "are a...

Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy.
September 22, 1994... 0The thesis of this book is forthright. Sims argues that American labor has engaged in extensive international efforts on behalf of U.S. foreign policy with resulting damage to workers both here and abroad. Wedded to a pro-business philosophy of...

The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy.
September 22, 1994... "The links between (British) trade unions and the Labour Party is crucial to any understanding of the past, present and future of (British) unions." British trade union power was greatly curbed after the Conservative Party won the 1979 general...

In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Immigrants, Workers, and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920.
September 22, 1994... This collection, based on a colloquium held in Paris in October 1986 in the centennial year of the Statue of Liberty, offers a challenging examination by labor and immigration historians of the freedoms promised and liberties denied immigrant...

"The River Ran Red": Homestead 1892.
September 22, 1994... Most labor educators and union activists are familiar with the Homestead strike of 1892. In one of the most dramatic events in American labor history, striking steel workers laid siege to a boatload of Pinkertons, eventually forcing them to...

Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steeltown.
September 22, 1994... This book is a community history of Homestead, Pennsylvania, located on the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. Serrin, a former New York Times labor reporter who covered industrial decline, declares: "A strange way to run a county . . . use...