Daily Labor Report, June 1, 1994
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Converging Divergences
Author: Harry C. Katz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1501731440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented, and joint team-based strategies. The authors go on to show that these changing employment patterns are closely related to the decline of unions and growing income inequality. Drawing upon plant-level evidence on emerging employment practices, they provide a comprehensive analysis of changes in employment systems and labor-management relations. They conclude that while the variation in employment patterns is increasing within countries, evidence suggests that there is much commonality across countries in the nature of that variation and also similarity in the processes through which variation is appearing. Hence the term "converging divergences."
Rights, Not Interests
Author: James A. Gross
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1501714260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy in U.S. labor law and labor relations. James A. Gross argues that the NLRA was and remains at its core a workers’ rights statute. Gross shows how value clashes and choices between those who interpret the NLRA as a workers’ rights statute and those who contend that the NLRA seeks only a "balance" between the economic interests of labor and management have been major influences in the evolution of the board and the law. Gross contends, contrary to many who would write its obituary, that the NLRA is not dead. Instead he concludes with a call for visionary thinking, which would include, for example, considering the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers’ rights. Rights, Not Interests will appeal to labor activists and those who are trying to reform our labor laws as well as scholars and students of management, human resources, and industrial relations.
Labor Law Series
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1188
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The Right and Labor in America
Author: Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0812207912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility to the very idea of trade unionism put forward by a conservative movement whose roots go as far back as the Haymarket Riot of 1886. The controversy in Madison and other state capitals reveals that labor's status and power has always been at the core of American conservatism, today as well as a century ago. The Right and Labor in America explores the multifaceted history and range of conservative hostility toward unionism, opening the door to a fascinating set of individuals, movements, and institutions that help explain why, in much of the popular imagination, union leaders are always "bosses" and trade union organizers are nothing short of "thugs." The contributors to this volume explore conservative thought about unions, in particular the ideological impulses, rhetorical strategies, and political efforts that conservatives have deployed to challenge unions as a force in U.S. economic and political life over the century. Among the many contemporary books on American parties, personalities, and elections that try to explain why political disputes are so divisive, this collection of original and innovative essays is essential reading.
Strategic Human Resource Management
Author: Kenneth A. Kovach
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780761803317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from a strategic perspective, this book addresses some of the most pressing problems facing human resource managers today. There is a section of cases that requires the reader to apply human resource knowledge and principles to practical situations. The cases include questions which require either interpretation of legal issues, the application of interpersonal skills, or value judgments concerning appropriate courses of action. The major issues discussed are motivation, compensation, physical environment, separation and legal, social, and labor issues.
A Workable Balance
Author: United States. Commission on Family and Medical Leave
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyth and Measurement
Author: David Card
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0691169128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.
One World, Ready Or Not
Author: William Greider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-02-10
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0684835541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting the viewpoints of politicians, workers, and others, the author assesses the global economy, points to problems of unregulated capital and labor, and proposes solutions the U.S. must take to lead the world economy onwards.
