Who Rules America Now?
Who Rules America Now?

Author: G. William Domhoff

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.

Building More Effective Unions
Building More Effective Unions

Author: Paul F. Clark

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2013-09-02

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0801458463

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Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides an updated discussion of important lessons behavioral science holds for labor organizations. It also provides new examples of how unions and their leaders have benefited from putting the principles outlined in the first edition into practice.

Mutual Survival
Mutual Survival

Author: Edward Wight Bakke

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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Report on the state of labour relations in the USA - comprises two parts on (1) human behaviour in industrial relations, and the impact of the desire for sovereignty on the part of both management and trade unions, and (2) the building up of a collective bargaining system which brought about a working coexistence of antagonistic cooperation.

The Political Imperative
The Political Imperative

Author: Gus Tyler

Publisher: New York : Macmillan

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Study of cooperative and theoretical aspects of trade unions in the USA - covers traditional conceptions of the corporation, historical and political aspects, aspects of philosophy, aspects of leadership of unions (incl. Political leadership), legal aspects, sociological aspects, etc.

Organizing Matters
Organizing Matters

Author: Guy Mundlak

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-05-29

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1839104031

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Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.