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9780226261577
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NBER-Conference Report
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Private sector unionism is in decline in the United States. As a result, labor advocates, community groups, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals concerned with the well-being of workers have sought to develop alternative ways to represent workers' interests. Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to this drastically altered landscape.This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. The con
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets; I. STUDIES OF NONWORKER ORGANIZATIONS; 2. White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy; 3. The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What's Known About Its Impact?; 4. The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws; II. STUDIES OF MEMBERSHIP-BASED INITIATIVES
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5. Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation6. A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits; III. NEW UNION OPPORTUNITIES AND INITIATIVES; 7. A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the Nonwage Aspects of Work; 8. Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations; 9. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
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