Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1996

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1996

A study of reversal determinants in discipline and discharge arbitration awards: the impact of just cause standards.
September 22, 1996... The American Arbitration Association (AAA) reports that approximately 30 percent of all grievance arbitrations heard by its neutrals involve some form of discipline or discharge.(1) Since almost 50 percent of all discipline and discharge cases...

Tailoring union-wide innovations to local conditions: the case of member assistance program implementation in the airline industry.
September 22, 1996... The steady decline in the proportion of unionized employees in the United States (Barling et al., 1992) has spurred the interest of labor researchers and union leaders in innovation (Heckscher, 1987; Kirkland, 1985; Craver, 1993). An innovation...

Production standards and the Americans with Disabilities Act: a preliminary review and analysis.
September 22, 1996... Introduction Production standards have been used as a measure of work performance in a variety of industries for some time. Unlike wage incentives which pay for productivity above a predetermined norm, production standards generally establish...

Union certification elections in hospitals.
September 22, 1996... The health service sector is an important part of the U.S. economy. In recent years, U.S. citizens have spent over $600 billion a year on health care.(1) National health care expenditures were 10.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 1985...

Union Organizing in the Public Sector: An Analysis of State and Local Elections.
September 22, 1996... Over the past 35 years, public sector unions have become increasingly important in American union life. The role of public sector unions in the turnover of AFL-CIO leadership is probably the most recent example. As private sector union...

Member Assistance Programs in the Workplace: The Role of Labor in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse.
September 22, 1996... Member Assistance Programs (MAPs) are union-sponsored counseling and referral programs that provide union members to help co-workers suffering from substance abuse and other personal problems. MAPs are promoted by an organization called Labor...

Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States.
September 22, 1996... Why are our nation's farmworkers still the poorest of the working poor? For three decades the media and assorted advocates have helped bring to light stories of exploitation and neglect. Leaders emerged from the fields, rallying their co-workers...

Farm Labor Organizing: Trends and Prospects.
September 22, 1996... Why are our nation's farmworkers still the poorest of the working poor? For three decades the media and assorted advocates have helped bring to light stories of exploitation and neglect. Leaders emerged from the fields, rallying their co-workers...

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal.
September 22, 1996... This book is a well written examination of the effects of the Great Depression on the migratory work force which harvested the cotton crop of California in the 1930's. As background, the author also acquaints the reader with information on the...

American Labor in the Era of World War II.
September 22, 1996... The 50th anniversaries of the beginning and end of World War II have prompted a considerable amount of new research into the effects of the war era on home front labor. That is both appropriate and welcome as the war, arguably, did more to shape...

The American Radical.
September 22, 1996... The designation "radical" has meant many things over the years, from turn-of-the-century images of bomb-throwing anarchists to present-day images of bomb-throwing right-wing survivalists. Some young people turn the opprobrium around and use the...

The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront.
September 22, 1996... To put it simply, The Union Makes Us Strong is the best book written about what it has meant to be a longshore worker in the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union over the past fifty years. Using a variety of research methodologies,...

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor.
September 22, 1996... Labor Will Rule is Steven Fraser's masterful biography of Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) founder Sidney Hillman. Arguably one of the top three union leaders in American labor history, Hillman has...

The Samuel Gompers Papers, vol. 3, Unrest and Depression, 1891-94.
September 22, 1996... In this third volume of the Samuel Gompers Papers, editors Stuart Kaufman and Peter Albert have compiled news clippings, editorials written by Gompers in the American Federationist and other publications, speeches, and communications with wayward...

Labour and Society in Britain and the USA, 2 vols.
September 22, 1996... The field of American labor history underwent an intellectual revolution some twenty-five years ago. Scholarship shifted sharply from the economic aspects of trade unions to the social history of working people. But the research which underpinned...

The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico.
September 22, 1996... The Paradox of Revolution is an attempt to explain the paradoxical results of the Mexican revolution (1910-1920) up to the present time. On the one hand, the revolution has involved organized labor as a central element in its ruling coalition,...

Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985.
September 22, 1996... Local union leaders wrack their brains: how to motivate members to get involved? What makes one person devote hours to union work, missing out on the things most people do for fun, while the majority are solely consumers of unionism? The...

Class, Democracy, and Labor in Contemporary Argentina.
September 22, 1996... With an urbanized, literate citizenry, a large and politically conscious middle class, and lacking the extremes of wealth and poverty that mark her neighbors, Argentina has for some time resembled the industrialized states of the Northern...

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.
September 22, 1996... During his years of power, Juan Peron legalized and institutionalized the Argentine labor movement by government decree, mobilizing millions of union members as a populist counter-weight to his conservative opposition. Ousted by army coup in...