Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1995

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1995

A program for building cooperative shop floor labor relations: the UAW, the International Harvester Corporation and the " new look" procedure, 1960-1964. (United Auto Workers)
September 22, 1995... The key to good shop floor labor relations between a company and a union is an effective, efficient and just grievance procedure. The establishment of such a grievance procedure can provide employees with a method of obtaining "industrial...

New production techniques, employee involvement and unions.
September 22, 1995... Japanese manufacturing has, at least in recent years, consistently been held up as the benchmark by which U.S. manufacturers should measure themselves. While much of the general public is familiar with the idea of Quality Circles, there has been...

A mighty voice for labor: the struggle to create a national daily labor newspaper, 1952-1958.
September 22, 1995... In response to a long perceived need on the part of organized labor for fairer coverage from the press, on September 16, 1952, the International Typographical Union (ITU) launched Labor's Daily. According to the ITU, Labor's Daily was the first...

Becoming shop stewards: perspectives on gender and race in ten trade unions.
September 22, 1995... Increasingly scholars and activists have recognized the importance of women and people of color to the labor movement. They have argued that the future flourishing and indeed the viability of trade unions depend on the full inclusion of these new...

Race in America: The Struggle for Equality.
September 22, 1995... Now forty years after Brown v. Board of Education and thirty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, race continues to be, to borrow from W.E.B. DuBois, the problem of the twentieth century. This collection of essays amounts to an...

The Machine That Changed the World.
September 22, 1995... So that the reader has no doubts about its authority, the cover of The Machine that Changed the World proclaims that the book is "based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-Million-Dollar 5-Year Study" of auto manufacturing. The authors...

Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry.
September 22, 1995... In Alternatives to Lean Production, Christian Berggren skillfully challenges the methods, conclusions and particularly, the assumptions of lean production advocates. What characterizes most U.S. studies of the auto industry is that they are...

Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business.
September 22, 1995... Negotiating the Future has as its central concern U.S. competitiveness in the world economy: how can U.S. firms obtain or retain a competitive edge, and what has been causing its loss in recent decades? Bluestone and Bluestone argue that American...

What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise.
September 22, 1995... Technological innovation continues to occupy center-stage as a component of competitive business strategy. The literature on technology adoption is extensive, yet much of it falls into the predictable categories of labor process theory, or...

Employee Participation and Labor Law in the American Workplace.
September 22, 1995... On December 12, 1992, the National Labor Relations Board announced its long awaited decision in Electromation Inc. In a 4-0 vote, the Board found that the employee participation teams created by the Electromation company were illegal labor...

Legal Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Analysis of Federal Law.
September 22, 1995... Though an excellent study of the area of disability law, this text may not be the first choice for budget strapped labor studies related libraries, as much of it concerns disability issues that are not employment related, such as issues of public...

Tenure, Discrimination and the Courts.
September 22, 1995... The last few years have seen some serious legal inroads into the secrecy and sanctity of the tenure granting process of most American universities and colleges. Where once the system was completely shrouded in mystery, courts have, under the...

Finding and Using Economic Information: A Guide to Sources and Interpretation.
September 22, 1995... If you have ever wondered what economic data mean, how they are collected, where you can find them, and how you can use them, this is the book for you: an easy and ready source of answers to your questions. For those who seldom use statistics...

Dangerous to Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care.
September 22, 1995... Using current facts and statistics, Vicente Navarro presents a compelling argument that class dominance is the underlying factor that keeps the U.S. from a universal health care program. Dangerous To Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care is a...

Women, Community and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86.
September 22, 1995... This book is a collection of interviews with the women who formed the Austin United Support Group in October of 1984 in response to the announcement by the George A. Hormel Company of a wage and benefit cut at the plant in Austin, Minnesota. The...

Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer.
September 22, 1995... To hear John Abt tell it, the chief counsel to the American Communist party knew virtually nothing about the inner workings of the party. He was unattached to any club and not privy to policy discussions at the top. Abt just seemed to be along...

Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986.
September 22, 1995... Inevitably, but frustratingly, teaching lags behind research. Historians' "discovery" of such rich topics as workers, women, blacks, ethnics, and immigrants in the 1960s and 1970s was followed over the next decade by the appearance of college...

Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860.
September 22, 1995... This study of canal construction workers in the United States and Canada during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries operates on two related yet distinct levels. On one hand it is an exhaustive examination of how changes in the nature and...