Labor Studies Journal articles from September 2000

Labor Studies Journal archives from September 2000

From Union Identity to Union Voting: An Assessment of the 1996 Election.
September 22, 2000... An important but remarkably under analyzed labor studies subject is the relationship between union identity and union member voting behavior. The dominant political theory in America holds that pluralism generates overlapping and crosscutting...

Living Wage Campaigns From a "Social Movement" Perspective: The Miami Case.
September 22, 2000... This article uses the Miami living wage campaign to examine the potential and limitations of living wage campaigns to build enduring social movements which unite organized labor with community partners. Using the tripartite framework derived...

Determinants of Certification Election Outcomes in the Service Sector.
September 22, 2000... Our research examines union certification election activity in the service sector over a fourteen-year period and shows that unions in this sector consistently win a greater percentage of their elections than their counterparts in the...

Training and Equity Initiatives on the British Columbia Vancouver Island Highway Project: A Model For Large-Scale Construction Projects.
September 22, 2000... The equity initiatives in training and hiring on this large project were unique and stunningly successful. At peak production periods the equity hires constituted more than 20 percent of the workforce, a figure that is ten times higher than...

Whistleblowing at Work: Tough Choices in Exposing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse on the Job.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Whistleblowing at Work: Tough Choices in Exposing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse on the Job. By Terance D. Miethe. Boulder, GO: Westview Press, 1999. 252 pp. $25 cloth. Instances of fraud and corruption in government and industry are a...

Violence at Work.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Violence at Work. By Duncan Chappell and Vittorio Di Martino. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1998. 165 pp. $22.50 paper. At the Outset the authors state their goals are to raise awareness that workplace violence is a worldwide...

The Changing Nature of Work.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Changing Nature of Work. Edited by Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher. Washington, D.C. and Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1998. 417 pp. $60 cloth; $35 paper. For those of us whose eyes skittered off the...

The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective. By Herbert Applebaum. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 228 pp. $59.95 cloth. Herbert Applebaum's study of American work history, though published as one...

New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America. By Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 1998. 240 pp. $27.50 cloth. New Rules for a New...

Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany. By Lowell Turner. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 195 pp. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. The rapid recovery of West German industry from the devastation...

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy and the Decline of Liberalism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 410 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. In the introduction of Judith Stein's...

The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance. By Taylor E. Dark. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 233 pp. $37.50 cloth. It is with the same degree of certainty reserved for the calculations of the earth's rotations...

Managing Tomorrow's High-Performance Unions.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Managing Tomorrow's High-Performance Unions. By Thomas A. Hannigan. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1998. 320 Pp. $59.95 cloth. If and when the publisher is smart enough to bring out an affordable paperback edition, this book will belong in...

Spinning For Labour: Trade Unions and the New Media Environment.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Spinning For Labour: Trade Unions and the New Media Environment. By Paul Manning. Aldershot, England; Ashgate Press, 1998. 401 pp. $76.95 cloth. This well researched book is a combination of academic complexity, creative theoretical...

Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective. Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective. Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation. By Kenneth Lapides. Westport, CT. and London: Praeger, 1998. 288 pp. $59.95 cloth. Kenneth Lapides's study of Marx's wage theory grows out of the...

Workers' Control in Latin America: 1930-1979.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979. Edited by Jonathan C. Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 392 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. This collection of essays integrates interdisciplinary research from...

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster. By Alan Derickson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 237 pp. $22.95 cloth. In this tight monograph, Alan Derickson examines the concept of black lung (pneumoconiosis) and...

Labor on the March.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Labor on the March. By Edward Levinson. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1995. 325 pp. Price n/a. Edward Levinson's Labor on the March, originally published in 1938 and reissued in 1956, is a journalistic period piece celebrating the heyday of...