Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1997

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1997

Organizing strategies and organizing reform in New Zealand service sector unions.
September 22, 1997... Introduction The dramatic deregulation of the labor market brought about by the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (ECA) has forced New Zealand (NZ) labor unions to reexamine their structures and strategies. This article examines the extent...

The impact of social class on attitudes towards strikes: a four-country study.
September 22, 1997... Over a century ago, Karl Marx predicted that conditions faced by the working class would deteriorate, leading them to become militant, form labor unions, and turn to revolution. Critics of Marx have challenged his prediction, contending...

Labor's efforts sustain workplace safety.
September 22, 1997... Introduction "To assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources" was Congress' lofty goal when it passed the Occupational Safety and Health...

The fair deal campaign: the evolution of a non-NLRB election organizing strategy for unionizing Milwaukee asbestos-abatement workers. (National Labor Relations Board)
September 22, 1997... Introduction: An Overview of Non-NLRB Election Campaigns Non-National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election union organizing strategies are growing in popularity, especially in light of the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU)...

The Flight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Struggle.
September 22, 1997... directed by Rick Tejada-Flores and Ray Telles, 1997, 120 minutes. The historic march of Watsonville strawberry workers and their supporters is but the latest event in the long story of California farmworker struggles for justice and dignity....

Struggles in Steel.
September 22, 1997... directed by Tony Buba and Ray Henderson, 1996, 57 minutes. Like The Fight in the Fields, Struggles in Steel is simultaneously heart-breaking and inspirational. In recounting the previously untold stories of African American men (and some...

Turn It Around: Teamster Stewards Solving Problems on the Job.
September 22, 1997... Education Department, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1994, 17 minutes. Reviewed by Frank Borgers, University of Alabama at Birmingham Turn it Around follows a group of rank-and-file Teamsters, their steward, and business agent in...

Wonder of the World.
September 22, 1997... Active Image, 1996, 50 minutes. Reviewed by Robert Cvornyek, Rhode Island College This is a poignant documentary that succeeds in introducing a general audience to the human side of modernization. As such, it makes a significant...

Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia.
September 22, 1997... By Lawrence C. Soley. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1995. 203 pp. $13 paper. Labor educators and other faculty members on college and university campuses will become even more concerned about the future of their programs and institutions...

Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994.
September 22, 1997... By James A. Gross. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. 404 pp. $49.95 cloth. The third volume of James Gross's authoritative history of the National Labor Relations Board explores the agency's role in shaping federal policy within...

The Invention of the White Race, vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control.
September 22, 1997... By Theodore W. Allen. London: Verso, 1994. 319 pp. Price n/a. Theodore Allen has produced an intriguing book that will be cited in all future discussions about the origins of racism and slavery in America. The author, writing as a...

Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 379 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The subject of women's "protection" under labor laws rests at the complex intersection of work,...

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968.
September 22, 1997... By Kevin Boyle. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. 338 pp. $35 cloth. According to Nelson Lichtenstein, no person had a better chance to define the very meaning of modern trade unionism than did Walter Reuther. In the quarter...

The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor.
September 22, 1997... By Nelson Lichtenstein. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 1995. 575 pp. $35 cloth. According to Nelson Lichtenstein, no person had a better chance to define the very meaning of modern trade unionism than did Walter Reuther. In the quarter...

Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Cyrus Bina, Laurie Clements, and Chuck Davis. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. 261 pp. $24.95 paper; $62.95 cloth. The eleven essays in this valuable collection address the crisis and the promise of the contemporary labor...

NAFTA as a Model of Development: The Benefits and Costs of Merging High- and Low-Wage Areas.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Richard S. Belous and Jonathan Lemco. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. 216 pp. $16.95 paper. NAFTA as a Model of Development examines the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from a wide variety of...

Corporate Power and the American Dream: Toward an Economic Agenda for Working People.
September 22, 1997... New York, NY: The Labor Institute, 1996. 132 pp. $12 paper; 5 or more copies, $8 each. Designed for use in small discussion groups or workshops, this 8-1/2 x 11 inch book makes considerable effort to be accessible to readers. Type size is...

In Defense of Affirmative Action.
September 22, 1997... By Barbara R. Bergmann. New York, New York: A New Republic Book, Basic Books, 1996. 213 pages. $23 cloth. The future of affirmative action promises to continue to be a major policy question through the rest of this century, and no doubt...

Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action.
September 22, 1997... By Herman Belz. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994. 320 pages. $21.95 paper. The future of affirmative action promises to continue to be a major policy question through the rest of this century, and no doubt into the...

The Remedy Class, Race and Affirmative Action.
September 22, 1997... By Richard D. Kahlenberg. New York, New York: A New Republic Book, Basic Books, 1996. 350 pages. $25 cloth. The future of affirmative action promises to continue to be a major policy question through the rest of this century, and no doubt...

Wrongful Termination: A State-by-State Survey.
September 22, 1997... By Lionel J. Postic. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1994. 860 pp. $125 cloth. Make no mistake: this is a reference work. After a four-page introduction and a thirteen-page table with a row for each of the fifty states'...

Reducing Unemployment: A Case for Government Deregulation.
September 22, 1997... By Garry K. Ottosen and Douglas N. Thompson. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1996. 171 pp. $49.95 cloth. Ottosen and Thompson argue in this book that unemployment in the United States can be reduced without increasing inflation....

The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project: Six Year Follow-Up and Summary Report.
September 22, 1997... By Walter Corson and Joshua Haimson. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1996. 151 pp. Price n/a. In 1986 the U.S. Department of Labor, in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Labor,...

Privacy and Its Invasion.
September 22, 1997... By Deckle McLean. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1995. 130 pp. Price $45 cloth. In this book, the author declares that "The desire to assert power has always been an incentive to invade privacy." He then attempts to explain the...

Arbitration 1995: New Challenges and Expanding Responsibilities, Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Joyce M. Najita. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau of National Affairs, 1996. 343 pp. $40 cloth. This book, which contains documents and presentations from the proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the National Academy of...