Labor Studies Journal articles from September 1998

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 1998

Living Inside our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Staughton Lynd. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 281 pp. $14.95 paper, $39.95 cloth. Staughton Lynd has packed enough experience into the last few decades to fill several lifetimes - college dropout, army medic,...

Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler. New York: Routledge, 1998. 282 pp. $18.99 paper. Cybernation and the exploration of the future of work in America is the topic of this collection. The editors posit some questions: can...

Half A Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Chris Tilly. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 202 pp. $19.95 paper, $49.95 cloth. For some years now, labor educators have been discussing the contingent labor force as a component of the modern American workplace. Chris...

Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Miriam A. Golden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 195 pp. $18.95 paper, $59.95 cloth. Heroic Defeats is an attempt to answer the question, "Why do unions sometimes strike over widespread job loss and at other times do...

Unnecessary Suffering: Managing Market Utopia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Maurice Glasman. New York: Verso Press, 1997. 167 pp. $18 paper. As we are bombarded by continued celebrations of the "free market" and relentless attacks on "big government," Maurice Glasman reminds us of an alternative between...

Airline Labor Relations in the Global Era: The New Frontier.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Peter Cappelli. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. 250 pp. $14.95 paper, $30 cloth. The airline industry has undergone a revival unparalleled by any other in recent years. Just a few years ago the industry was awash in...

Labor Arbitration Under Fire.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by James L. Stern and Joyce M. Najita. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1997. 265 pp. $39.95 cloth. While this is a useful book, its title is a misnomer; the editors make note, without substantiation, of labor arbitration being "under fire"...

Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited with Introduction by Marion K. Barthelme. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. 248 pp. $16.95 paper, $39.95 cloth. There was a time, not so long ago, when students of history could spend a career reading and studying...

"Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking: 1930-90.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Roger Horowitz. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 373 pp. $17.95 paper, $44.95 cloth. Working with oral histories, archives, and newspapers, Roger Horowitz has written a book that should be on the "must read" list...

Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses: 1904-54.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Rick Halpern. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 309 pp. $17.95 paper, $44.95 cloth. Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz worked together on the United Packinghouse Workers Oral History Project, and they came out of it as...

New Deal Days: 1933-1934.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Eli Ginzberg. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. 109 pp. $29.95 cloth. With so many good books going unpublished, one wonders why Transaction invested the time and money to publish what is essentially a vanity press book....

Working Stiffs, Union, Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Tom Zaniello. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. 295 pp. $18.95 paper, $39.95 cloth. This reference guide to 150 "labor-related" films will be a great help to labor educators planning classes and public film showings, and it...

Fighting the union in a 'union friendly' company: the AT&T/NCR case.
September 22, 1998... In 1991, AT&T acquired the NCR Corporation in an all-stock transaction reported to be valued at $7.4-7.5 billion. Business analysts were skeptical; previous attempts to merge telecommunications and computer businesses had failed, and the...

The individual decision to unionize.
September 22, 1998... Introduction Unionization occurs only when individual employees support it, typically during the course of an organizing campaign that culminates in a certification election. Better understanding an individual's decision to support union...

Property rights or entitlements: how ESOPS influence what workers value about their unions.(employee stock ownership plans)
September 22, 1998... Introduction The essence of unionism in the West has been historically grounded in two fundamental dichotomies: a commercial property-owning class, and a class of workers with only their labor to sell. First, owners control the means of...

Horace Kallen's workers' education for industrial democracy.
September 22, 1998... Introduction Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) was esteemed as one of America's leading social philosophers and educators and, for more than fifty years, his name was intimately associated with New York City's New School for Social Research,...