Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781849502153
Series Statement:
Advances in industrial & labor relations volume 12
Content:
Introduction / David Lewin, Bruce E. Kaufman -- Partnerships of steel? : forging high involvement work systems in the U.S. steel industry : a view from the local unions / Saul A. Rubinstein -- The union commitment of adjunct faculty / Kathleen L. Pereles -- Shaping political preferences through workplace mobilization : unions and the 2000 election / Roland Zullo -- John Fitch, David Brody and the culture of management in American labor history / Jonathan Rees -- Sumner Slichter on personnel management and employee representation before the New Deal / Bruce E. Kaufman -- Labor market regulation and production worker hiring standards : international comparisons / Kirsten Daniel, W.S. Siebert -- Company unions, wages, and work hours / John Pencavel -- Capital mobility and the social accord : a critical examination of the GE coordinated bargaining committee / Frank Borgers
Content:
This volume contains papers dealing with topics such as the effects of company unions on wages, the effects of labour market regulation on hiring standards, coalition bargaining at General Electric, cooperative labour-management partnerships in the steel industry, the union commitment of adjunct faculty, the effects of union political outreach on union members political perceptions, preferences and voting behaviour, reinterpretation of new labour historians differences with old labour historians, and newly discovered lecture notes by industrial relations scholar Sumner Slichter that detail his views on the early development of welfare capitalism in the US. These papers contain a vibrant mix of disciplinary perspectives, analytical methods, arguments and conclusions about key industrial relations topics - and do so from both contemporary and historical perspectives. The volume should be of interest to industrial relations scholars and students worldwide
Note:
Volume 12 of this title contains eight papers that deal with contemporary and historical aspects of unionism and other forms of union and labour representation
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780762310289
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780762310289
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1016/S0742-6186(2003)12
