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Book SynopsisBig Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.Trade Review"Big Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance... It will make a substantial contribution to scholarship. - Peter Clancy, author of Micro-Politics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines"Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgment 1 Introduction 2 A Tough Industry 3 Prices, Preferences, and Strategy 4 Trading Steel 5 Survival 6 Steel in a Global Perspective Notes; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBig Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures.Trade Review"Big Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance. - Peter Clancy, St. Francis Xavier University"Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgment 1 Introduction 2 A Tough Industry 3 Prices, Preferences, and Strategy 4 Trading Steel 5 Survival 6 Steel in a Global Perspective Notes; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this definitive guide, Forrest Mosten--an internationallyrecognized mediation expert--helps would-be mediators answer thecritical question Do I have the values, skills, personality, andcommitment necessary to mediate? A comprehensive resource, the book also explores a wealth of timelytopics including the need to establish standards of the profession,how to maintain confidentiality, the pros and cons of co-mediation,and the place of mediation in the process of court and law reform.Straightforward and reader-friendly, the Mediation Career Guide isfilled with practice tips, self-surveys, diagrams, readingresources, a list of training programs and volunteer opportunities,budget forms, and model standards of conduct. This hands-onresource is designed to make the challenging journey of becoming apeacemaker a one-step-at-a-time manageable process.Trade Review"This volume anticipates and answers all the practical questionsabout becoming a mediator and provides a map for those interestedin successfully traveling the mediation path." (Jay Folberg,professor of law and mediator, University of San Francisco and pastpresident, Academy of Family Mediators and Association of Familyand Conciliation Courts) "For all aspiring mediators who have asked the question "How do Imake mediation my career?" this book is for you.'"(Bernard Mayer,partner, CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado, and author of TheDynamics of Conflict Resolution ) "A complete (how is it that he misses nothing?) and practical guidefilled with brilliant ideas, useful tools, 'just go do it'insights, and invaluable advice for all."(Daniel Bowling, executivedirector, Association for Conflict Resolution) Recommended Book of the Month (November): Mediation Career Guide byForrest S. Mosten. If you have ever considered trying to makemediation your day job, this is the book to buy and read. It willhelp you decide if you have the skills, personality and commitmentnecessary to become a full-time mediator. It starts by pointing outthe time and difficulty three famouse mediators had in establishingtheir careers (Mosten, Meirding and Melamed) and then gives furtherexamples. It has self assesment materials (usefull ones, not fluff)and contains a solid, direct and applied set of tools for marketingyour practice, considering your options, and developing yourself asa mediator. NOT merely a collection of handouts, previous materialsor musings, well edited and complete. (Stephen R. Marsh, a mediatorin Dallas, Texas. http://adrr.com/index.htm ADR Resources) "This book applies useful advice about operating a professionalservices business to the special needs of mediators and is thus avaluable resource to both new and seasoned practitioners. (VirginiaMediation Network News, 1/02)"This volume anticipates and answers all the practical questionsabout becoming a mediator and provides a map for those interestedin successfully traveling the mediation path." --Jay Folberg,professor of law and mediator, University of San Francisco and pastpresident, Academy of Family Mediators and Association of Familyand Conciliation Courts "For all aspiring mediators who have asked the question "How doI make mediation my career?" this book is for you.'" --BernardMayer, partner, CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado, and author ofThe Dynamics of Conflict Resolution "A complete (how is it that he misses nothing?) and practicalguide filled with brilliant ideas, useful tools, 'just go do it'insights, and invaluable advice for all." --Daniel Bowling,executive director, Association for Conflict ResolutionTable of ContentsPreface. PART ONE: Is Mediation Right for You? 1. Can Mediation Be Your Day Job? 2. Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Mediator? 3. Can You Do the Work? 4. Education and Training. 5. Job Opportunities in Mediation. PART TWO: Building Your Career as a Mediator. 6. Creating Your Mediation Signature. 7. Expanding Your Mediation Services. 8. Defining Your Target Market. 9. Creating a Mediation-Friendly Environment. PART THREE: The Nuts and Bolts of Private Practice. 10. Setting Up Your Office. 11. Strategic Planning and Investing in Yourself. 12. Managing Your Practice. 13. Marketing Your Practice Effectively. 14. What Do You Do Next Monday? EPILOGUE: The Evolving Field of Mediation. APPENDIX 1: Mediator Self-Survey. APPENDIX 2: Professional Standards and Model Legislation. APPENDIX 3: Mediation Training and Educational Programs. APPENDIX 4: Books and Resources. APPENDIX 5: Mediation Organizations. APPENDIX 6: Sample Opportunities in Conflict Resolution. APPENDIX 7: Sample Budget Forms. APPENDIX 8: Sample Practice Forms. APPENDIX 9: Mediation Pledge. Notes. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers instructions for handling large and small public controversies, from national to the community level. This book includes ten principles to manage conflict; a framework with step-by-step procedures; seven illustrative case examples; and advice on methods for collecting information, conducting interviews, and analyzing a conflict situation.Trade Review"This book has become a classic, offering sound advice about how tounderstand and use conflict resolution processes in the publicpolicy arena." (Chris Carlson, codirector, Policy ConsensusInitiative) "A classic must-read for professional mediators, public officials,and involved citizens! Managing Public Disputes is a masterfulblend of theory, practical application, and engaging stories thattake the conflict resolver step-by-step through the dynamics ofresolving public disputes." (Susanne Terry, mediator and faculty,Mediation Program, Woodbury College) "Required reading for anyone wanting to turn stalemate intoresults. It is foundational for the practice and teaching ofcollaborative policy making." (Susan Sherry, executive director,California Center for Public Dispute Resolution, A Joint Program ofCalifornia State University, Sacramento and McGeorge School of Law,University of the Pacific) "The book is a truly excellent starting point for readers,mediators and facilitators..." (Mediate.com, 1/02)Table of ContentsThe Authors. Part 1: Public Controversies and Conflict Management. 1 Understanding Public Disputes: The Spiral of UnmanagedConflict. 2 Dealing with Conflict Productively: Alternatives and CaseExamples. 3 Developing an Effective Program of Conflict Management: TenPrinciples. Part 2: A Step-By-Step Process for Managing PublicDisputes. 4 Analyzing the Conflict. 5 Designing a Strategy and Setting Up the Conflict ManagementProgram. 6 Adopting Procedures, Educating Parties, and DevelopingOptions. 7 Reaching and Carrying Out Agreements. Part 3: Ensuring the Success of Conflict Management. 8 Guidelines for Making the Program Work. 9 Paying Attention to Underlying Dynamics: Values, Trust,Power. 10 Handling the Human Side of the Process. 11 Removing Roadblocks. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated second edition of When Health Care Employees Strike is an essential survival guide for health care administrators who must plan for and cope with the inevitable labor dispute. Written by Kenneth Kruger and Norman Metzger-- two experts in the field of health care labor relations-- this much-needed resource includes the critical information and useful strategies health care executives must have in order to be properly prepared. The authors provide detailed information on labor law, an analysis of the different types of disputes, advice on how to use mediation effectively, suggestions for assessing manpower needs before a strike occurs, and ideas for preparing contingency plans. In addition to presenting information on ways to prevent strikes, the book also contains a comprehensive step-by-step manual to ensure health care organizations can continue operation during a labor dispute.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix About the Authors xi Introduction xiii Part 1 Health Care Strikes: Legal and Moral Implications 1 The Impact of Labor Legislation on the Health Care Industry 3 2 Types of Strikes: Causes and Characteristics 19 3 Strike-Related Actions: Union and Management 29 4 Nursing Strikes: A Breed Apart 45 5 The Future: Proposals for Change 59 Appendix A: Ashtabula General Hospital Nurse Strike Chronology 74 Appendix B: The Use of Interest Arbitration in the Public Sector 81 Part 2 Sample Strike Plan Strike Planning Committees 95 Human Resource Policies 97 Financial Policies and Procedures 101 Personnel Plan 105 Patient Care Services 110 Food Services 126 Accommodations 128 Engineering and Plant Operations 130 Supplies Subcommittee 136 Security 138 Labor-Employee Relations 141 Morale Committee 142 Communication 145 Index 149

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Book SynopsisInvestigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints is a hands-on guide for human resource professionals who are called upon to conduct a legally sound investigation into harassment, discrimination, or retaliation complaints. This important manual blends the information investigators need to develop the skills and competencies that are critical to successfully investigating harassment and discrimination complaints with a proven framework for undertaking the investigation itself. Investigating Harassment and Discrimination Complaints walks the investigator through the process of conducting a successful investigation and includes information about: The critical legal aspects of conducting an investigation How diversity affects harassment What needs to be in place prior to an investigation Creating a step-by-step plan How to properly document an investigation, and Administering discipline for policy violations and remTable of ContentsCD Content. Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgment. Introduction. PART ONE: ESSENTIAL INFORMATION. 1. Investigator Fears, Motivations, and Jargon. An Investigator’s Greatest Fears. An Investigator’s Greatest Motivations. Interpreting Legal Jargon. 2. The Law of Harassment and What Investigators Need to Know. Why Investigators Need to Know the Law. Relevant EEO Laws. Definition of Harassment Under Title VII. Employer Liability for Supervisory Harassment and the Affirmative Defense. EEOC’s Guidance on Supervisory Harassment. Other Types of Harassment. Retaliation After the Original Complaint. Special Problems in Harassment Law. 3. The Psychology of Harassment. The Nature of Harassment. Harassers. Coping with Harassment. The Impact of Harassment on Individuals and Workgroups. Environmental Factors Affecting Harassment. Implications for Investigators. 4. Diversity and Harassment. The Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, and Other Cultural Differences. Differences Between Men and Women. Tips for Investigators. PART TWO: PRIOR TO THE INVESTIGATION. 5. Characteristics of Effective Investigators. Unbiased Pursuit of the Facts. Superior Communication Skills. Ease with Difficult Behaviors and Emotions. Legal Knowledge. Excellent Relationship with Management. Knowledge of Hierarchy and Culture. Presentation Skills. Emotional Maturity and Detachment. Valuing and Understanding Diversity. Choosing the Right Investigator. 6. Organizational Settings Conducive to Effective Investigations. A Dynamic Organizational Model. Policies to Prevent Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation. Procedures for Investigating Allegations. Role of Leadership. Role of Training. Role of HR and the Investigators. PART THREE:THE INVESTIGATION. 7. The Investigative Plan. When to Do an Investigation. Intake of Complaints. Developing an Investigative Plan. Setting Up Interviews. Size of the Investigation. Other Legal Issues to Consider. 8. Documentation. Record Keeping. Attorney-Client Privilege. Writing an Investigative Report. Disseminating the Written Report. 9. Tips and Techniques for Conducting the Investigation. Confidentiality. Civil vs. Criminal Investigations. Conducting the Investigation. The Interviewing Process. Interviewing the Complainant. Interviewing the Alleged Harasser. Interviewing Witnesses. Completing the Process. Gathering Factual Documentation. 10. Making the Determination. Deciding When You Are Finished. Policy Violations vs. Violations of the Law. Determining Credibility. Deciding What Is Relevant. Corroborating Evidence. Boorish Behavior and Bad Management. Risk Factors. Making a Determination. PART FOUR: BEYOND THE INVESTIGATION. 11. Prompt, Corrective Action. AWorking Definition of Zero Tolerance. Presenting the Issues to Top Management. Judging the Severity of the Behavior. Disciplinary Considerations. Types of Discipline. Training for Workgroups. Training for Individual Harassers. 12. Remedies, Healing, and Follow-Up. Remedies for Aggrieved Employees. The Need for Debriefing. Leading the Debriefing. Debriefing the Complainant. Debriefing the Accused. Debriefing Workgroups. Debriefing Employees and Witnesses. 13. The Investigator as Witness. Testifying During Trial. Surviving Cross-Examination. Conclusion. Training Program: Training Internal Investigators. Training Internal Investigators Handouts. Appendix. Sample Policy. Sample Investigative Forms. Sample Report. Federal Cases of Importance for Sexual Harassment Issues. Federal Cases Addressing the Affirmative Defense, 1998–2002. Enforcement Guidelines Issued by EEOC. Policy Guidance on Current Issues of Sexual Harassment (1990). The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity. Commission Enforcement Guidelines. Bibliography. Index. About the Authors. How to Use the CD ROM. CD Contents. Training Program: Training Internal Investigators Handouts. Handout A: Self-Evaluation Form. Handout B: Microcosm Respectful Workplace Anti-Harassment Policy. Handout C: Case Studies. Handout D: Four Layers of Diversity. Handout E: Stereotypes and Generalizations. Handout F: You as a Diverse Entity. Handout G: Triad Role Play. Handout H: Forming an Investigative Plan. Handout I-1: Witness Summary: Willima Michaels. Handout I-2: Witness Statement: Tom Torrance. Handout I-3: Witness Summary: David Lee. Handout I-4: Witness Summary: B.J. Raymond. Handout I-5: Witness Summary: Michelle Cline. Handout J-1: Role Play Preparation and Feedback Forms. Handout J-2: Role Play Feedback Guidelines. Handout K: Remedies, Healing, and Aftermath. Handout L: Debriefing the Workgroup Exercise. Handout M: Your Organization’s Follow-Up Issues. Sample Policy. Sample Investigative Forms. Investigation Activity Log. Investigator’s Checklist. Checklist for Interview with Complainant. Checklist for Interview with Accused. Checklist for Interviews with Witnesses. Sample Report.

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Book SynopsisConflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' market-structuring objectives in the "political economy", and...Trade Review"Fair Shares is an excellent book which will make a significant impact on our understanding of industrial and organized class relations in Sweden and Germany, as well as on comparative theory." -- Peter Lange, Duke Universtiy

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Book SynopsisUnion of Parts examines one of the central puzzles in the economic and political successes of West Germany (FRG). In the decades between world war and reunification with the East, the FRG provided a model for combining high rates of unionization and...

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book exemplifies salutary trends in anthropology: practice theory, respect for ethnography in the face of the inadequacy of one-dimensional theoretical abstraction, and the importance of time depth. You may learn more than you ever wanted to about strawberries in California, but you will understand it and that will help you understand other phenomena. -- E. Paul Durrenberger, University of Iowa * American Anthropologist *

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Book SynopsisOran R. Young is a key participant in recent debates among international relations scholars about the dynamics of rule-making and rule-following in international society. In this book, he weaves together theoretical issues relating to the formation of...Trade ReviewCreating Regimes is a highly persuasive and perceptive work about two international regimes that have become central to nonmilitary cooperation in the Arctic in recent years.... Provides helpful insights into current policy and legal issue at the poles. -- Even T. Bloom * American Journal of International Law *This book is to my knowledge the first to account for the emergence of Arctic cooperation explicitly employing concepts from the literature on regimes, and it reinforces the author's longstanding efforts to draw attention to the Arctic as a test-bed for examining various aspects of regime analysis. The fact that Oran Young has at times himself been a 'player' in Arctic cooperation adds to the validity of his insights. * Environmental Politics *Young's latest volume is in many ways a logical extension of his Polar Politics; it builds on his experience as a theorist of international organization and his experience with regime-building in the circumpolar north.... Young is not presenting another grand theory of regime formation but a needed corrective to the tendency to find single-factor explanations. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWhy, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here...Trade ReviewAn explosively important book.... Marie Gottschalk's marvelous book... relieves us of the need to conjecture and hypothesize in trying to make sense of the little that we really knew of what was going on at the highest levels of the AFL-CIO ten years ago. She lifts the veil and at last we can all understand—and share in—the anger of those courageous union leaders within the federation who steadfastly stood firm for a universal, single-payer system of health care.... The working rank-and-file will ignore this book at their own peril. * The Harbinger *Gottschalk has written an incisive analysis of the failure of President Clinton's health reform proposal... Her account provides superior perspective on the debacle, because it roots the debate about employment-based health insurance plans in developments in labor-management relations and in the accommodation of leading Democrats to the business agenda that surged to the fore in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is written with verve and theoretical sophistication. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Gottschalk provides a thorough analysis of the political climate in which organized labor must operate. * Boston Book Review *In The Shadow Welfare State, Marie Gottschalk recounts labor's half century-long fight for decent health care coverage through both collective bargaining and political action. More than most writers, she brings these two sides of the coin together to analyze both the fragility of the private welfare state, even for those who are covered by it, and the closely related political weakness of labor in the U.S. * Labor Notes *Several solid studies of the failure of the Clinton health reform campaign of the early '90s attempt to assess the role of all the key players. Gottschalk, a University of Pennsylvania political scientist, focuses on the interaction of labor and business in that debate.... A cogent, provocative analysis of a particular battle that also raises larger questions for the future. * Booklist *This very well written and engaging book touches myriad issues in the history of labor, social democracy, and American political institutions.... All labor scholars will find her book a rich source of analysis and information on a wide variety of topics. * RI/IR, *

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Book SynopsisMuch of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another...Trade ReviewThis small book packs a big punch. We've long sought evidence that innovative work practices, such as teams and employee participation in problem solving, are worth the effort that it takes to implement them. Anecdotal studies and manager self-reports have offered some support that overall firm performance improves, but we've had little empirical evidence for our skeptical colleagues. Manufacturing Advantage delivers. -- Wendy S. Becker, University at Albany * Personnel Psychology *

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Book SynopsisThe failure of the Textile Workers Union of America to organize its jurisdiction has often been considered the CIO''s most critical setback in establishing industrial unionism in the United States. The textile industry had more than 1,250,000 workers, and the massive organizing campaign the CIO launched in 1937 resulted in perhaps the longest, most bitter, and most significant labor-capital clash of the century.In Culture of Misfortune, Clete Daniel integrates many primary sources, including extensive archival records and numerous oral interviews, into his examination of this conflict. He pays close attention to the internal political culture of the TWUA and how it was affected by the dislocation and transformation of the textile industry, the postwar assault on workers'' rights, and the risks of activism in the face of the rampant anti-unionism of the South.Daniel explains the inability of the TWUA to match the achievements of CIO unions in other mass-productioTrade ReviewThe major thrust of the text and its contribution to theory is in reminding us that the frailties of union leadership in changing contexts can provide a rich understanding of an organisation.... It is, however, the focus on the character of union leadership and their actions within a particular social context that ensures the contribution of this text. -- Martin Birt, University of Cape Town * The Journal of Industrial Relations *Daniel is masterful in interpreting efforts to unionize textile workers in the 20th century.... The book is strongest in delineating the divisions within national efforts.... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections. * Choice *Daniel relates this story with insight and sensitivity. He demonstrates his grasp of the historic dynamics of the American textile industry and the formidable obstacles that workers faced (and continue to face) in attempting to gain a collective voice.... Culture of Misfortune provides an interesting and controversial contribution to an important chapter in North America's labour history. -- Jonathan Eaton * Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations *Daniel's book is both a pleasure to read and fills in an important gap in the historiography of textile workers. It provides the first comprehensive history of the TWUA. While not a substitute for community studies, anyone undertaking a study of textile workers in the future will need to refer to this volume in order to gain an appreciation of how the union's internal politics effected its external relations. -- Lawrence Richards, University of Virginia * EH.Net *This superbly researched and brilliantly written monograph tells a profoundly depressing tale, as its title indicates.... This is easily the best study of the TWUA to date. Culture of Misfortune is based on solid research in the union archives and wide knowledge of the secondary literature. It is also beautifully written, and in its connecting of the TWUA's problems with those of industrial unionism in general in the concluding years of the twentieth century, the book has a wide significance. -- John Salmond, La Trobe University * The North Carolina Historical Review *Was industrial unionism the panacea that the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and those historians who praise it claim? Maybe not, suggests Clete Daniel.... His 'interpretive history' is short on glory and long on failure. Daniel persuasively argues that textile unionism was moribund from its inception.... He probably got it right in the book's early pages. Once the culture of misfortune became entrenched, all that was left to fight over was a pile of loose threads. -- Robert E. Weir, Bay Path College * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisJob training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployment. Both Democrats and Republicans have trumpeted training as the answer to everything from welfare to NAFTA. The Job Training Charade provides a comprehensive...Trade ReviewIn The Job Training Charade, Lafer attacks the U.S. economic policy that calls for the advancement of the skills and education of American workers as their way out of poverty.... Agree or not, readers will be challenged by this criticism of the underpinnings of American labor policy. -- Harvard Business School * Working Knowledge *Lafer suggests there are other things the government could do that would help more than training. Among those are restricting the use of permanent-temp workers; stopping competition from goods made under illegal conditions in other countries; increasing the minimum wage; and capping prescription drug and health care costs. * Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal *Lafer's intention is to provide 'the first comprehensive critique of the history, track record, and economic assumptions underlying' American job training policies since the early 1960s (page 1). His book delivers on that promise. From cover to cover, it is an unrelenting, tough, thoroughly documented, passionately argued, and uncompromising indictment of the politicians, powerful economic interests and bureaucrats he holds responsible for the policies he so roundly condemns. -- Michael Law, University of Waikato * Journal of Industrial Relations *In this well-written and hard-hitting critique, Lafer... argues that job training, as a federal policy response to poverty and unemployment, has been a near total failure.... This well-researched and insightful book should provoke widespread debate among scholars, politicians, policy makers, labor leaders, and employment and training professionals alike. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWhat are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United...Trade Review"Jonas Pontusson's new book rates with the finest work in comparative political economy. He tackles the old question of the presumed trade-off between equality and economic growth with fresh ideas and a mass of data and compellingly demonstrates that the institutions of northern European social market economies can produce employment and growth without the inequality characteristic of Anglo-American liberal market economies."—John Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of North Carolina"Jonas Pontusson makes a consistent and convincing argument against conventional wisdom that there is always a trade-off between equity and efficiency, showing that liberal market and social market economies face different challenges and must find different solutions to their problems. Most significant, however, he makes a very strong case that social market economies have a great many advantages over liberal market economies."—Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University

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Book SynopsisThe history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...Trade ReviewRuth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. Children Bound to Labor demonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent political and economic contexts in early America. * Georgia Historical Quarterly *This excellent collection brings together a dozen essays that explore the history and significance of pauper apprenticeship (also known as orphan apprenticeship or binding out). Most of the essays are based on detailed research in the records and circumstances of particular communities; they focus on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and range across North America, mainly in the British colonies but with interesting essays on New Netherland and Montreal as well. Taken together, these essays do much to advance our knowledge of the institution, and they make a convincing cases for its importance to our understanding of early American culture and development, including the central issues of labor, poverty, ideas about child rearing, society, and the state, and the effects of economic and social changes. -- Helena M. Wall * Journal of Southern History *

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Book Synopsis"An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers."-China JournalTrade ReviewThis ethnography is an indisputable contribution to both Asian studies and anthropology and a pioneering work in the field of transnational migration studies. I strongly recommend this lively and readable study of the complex lives of domestic workers in Hong Kong as a textbook for use in a variety of classes. * American Ethnologist *An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers. * China Journal *Constable undertakes extensive naturalistic and participant observation.... The interviews are lively, presenting an array of experiences. * China Quarterly *Maid to Order in Hong Kong is a stimulating and compellingly written book. * American Anthropologist *The combination of analyses of the social structural forms of domination and the individual forms of resistance makes Constable's work insightful and useful. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *This book contains rich qualitative data and provides sophisticated analysis of the plights, resistance, and accommodation of domestic workers. The writing is highly engaging. I strongly recommend it to students of qualitative methodology, gender and migration studies, as well as to all those who are interested in agency and contestations of women, and who care about the struggles of the disadvantaged. -- Catherine C. H. Chiu * Work and Occupations *

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Book SynopsisReveals how management regimes and company policy on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border apply different strategies to exploit their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.Trade ReviewTransnational Tortillas is a case study of two tortilla factories owned by the same company but located across the U.S.-Mexico border from each other. This transnational company organizes labor control differently in the two social and political contexts: The Mexican factory deploys a 'gender regime,' employing young women on the factory floor under the sexist supervision of men; while the U.S. factory uses an 'immigration regime,' employing undocumented Mexican men for the worst jobs and the night shift and Mexican American men (who are U.S. citizens) for the better jobs, some of which are unionized. -- Christine L. Williams * Gender & Society *Carolina Bank Munoz has written a passionate, polemical, but scrupulously objective volume on the intersection of race, gender, and class in two tortilla factories located on opposite sides of the United States–Mexico border in California. -- Julio César Pino * Enterprise & Society *The ethnographic data presented in Transnational Tortillas are impressive. The authorobserved workplace practices in both factory sites and interviewed managers and workers, giving us an insight not only into the mundanities of workplace practice on the production lines of a transnational tortilla firm, but also providing a look at the everyday lives of the workers themselves. -- Juanita Elias * International Studies Review *Ultimately, Bank Munoz has woven together admirably the macro, meso, and micro levels of state policies, labor markets, and workplace dynamics, producing a well-written, accessible, and fascinating account of exploitation and resistance among tortilla workers along the border. Transnational Tortillas should be of considerable value to scholars and students of labor, immigration, and global production. -- Gretchen Purser * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents1. The Tortilla Behemoth and Global Production 2. The Political Economy of Corn and Tortillas 3. A Tale of Two Countries: Immigration Policy and Globalization in the United States and Mexico 4. Hacienda CA: Immigration Regime 5. Hacienda BC: Gender Regime 6. Fighting Back? Resistance in the Age of Neoliberalism 7. Shop-Floor Politics in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisThe realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Chun shows that as the base of worker power shifts from those who hold high-paying, industrial jobs to the formerly unorganizable, labor movements in both countries are employing new strategies and vocabularies to challenge the assault of neoliberal globalization Trade ReviewOrganizing at the Margins successfully points to the importance of extralegal tactics used in campaigns seeking to redefine the working conditions of low-wage contract and subcontracted employees who lack the legal protections afforded to regularly employed workers. This well-organized book lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork for further cross-national analyses of campaigns that use symbolic leverage in support of the struggles of marginalized workers. * American Journal of Sociology *In an excellent work, Jennifer Jihye Chun compares concrete cases of labour organization by marginalized workers in these two different countries and situates them within the context of broader shifts in power between labour, capital and the state. * Pacific Affairs *Jennifer Jihye Chun's comparison of two seemingly very different labor movements—the militant Korean movement on the one hand and the bureaucratic U.S. movement on the other—reveals striking similarities in their leverage of power for the powerless. In Organizing at the Margins, Chun skillfully examines how and under what conditions marginalized workers successfully challenge their employment status. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Jennifer Jihye Chun's rigorous methodology incorporates a masterful blend of comparative historical and ethnographic approaches and her writing is lucid and fine-grained. This book reveals eye-opening connections and parallels between the South Korean and U.S. labor movements’ responses to the erosion of workers’ rights in the face of neoliberal globalization policies. It is a must-read for scholars of labor and labor movements, as well as an engaging text that will provoke students to think about how ideas of justice and morality are forged through protest, state policies, and public sentiments. * Contemporary Sociology *This book comprises a fascinating comparison of the seemingly incomparable—namely, labor movement strategies to organize marginalized service sector workers in the United States and South Korea. Chun draws on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of classification struggle and symbolic power to provide a substantial theoretical understanding of new forms of struggle in a way that I have not seen done elsewhere; in doing this she demonstrates the value of bringing new theoretical perspectives to bear on labor studies, a field sorely in need of this. * Global Labour Journal *Table of Contents1. The Symbolic Leverage of Labor 2. Employer and State Offensives against Unionized Workers 3. Reconstructing the Marginalized Workforce 4. Social Movement Legacies and Organizing the Marginalized 5. What Is an "Employer"? Organizing Subcontracted University Janitors 6. What Is a "Worker"? Organizing Independently Contracted Home Care Workers and Golf Caddies 7. Dilemmas of Organizing Workers at the MarginsNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty.

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Book SynopsisExplaining the causes and impact on working Americans of the most catastrophic economic policy failure since the 1920s.Trade ReviewBivens succeeds at exposing the 'cracked foundation' of the economy...: falling wages, assaults on unionism, globalization for workers and insulation for elites, the rise of the nonproductive financial sector, and the abandonment of full employment as a policy target. In graph after carefully and simply explained graph, Bivens walks the reader through the historical trajectory of these and other economic developments that have come to define the current situation. -- Cecilio Morales * America *In this useful and timely work, Bivens provides an assessment that will clarify for many the widely held view that the current 'great recession' need not have occurred but rather was due to government policy errors. These included minimum wage erosion by inflation; weakening of laws governing unions and collective bargaining; globalization that benefitted the already privileged; and slow growth of wages and income at the middle of the income distribution.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Lawrence MishelI. The Great Recession: The Damage Done and the Rot RevealedII. The Great Recession's Trigger: Housing Bubble Leads to Jobs Crisis Fallout: The Job Market Fallout: Broader Measures of Economic Security—Poverty, Health Insurance, and Net WealthIII. The Policy Response to the Great Recession: What Was Done, and Did It Work? The Dynamics of the Great Recession Recovery Act Controversies: What Was in It? Recovery Act Controversies: Did It Work at All? Recovery Act Controversies: Why Has Consumer and Not Government Spending Led the Recovery? IV. The Great Recession Ended More Than a Year Ago—So, "Mission Accomplished"? Apathy, Not Overreach Exchange Rate Policy Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Clear Economics, Fuzzy Politics V. The Cracked Foundation Revealed by the Great Recession Falling Minimum Wage Assault on Workers' Right to Organize Global Integration for America's Workers and Insulation for Elites The Rise of Finance Abandoning Full Employment as a Target You Get the Economy You Choose Incomes in the 30 Years before the Great Recession: Growing Slower and Less Equal Is Everybody Getting Richer but the Rich Are Just Getting Richer Faster? Why Have Typical Families' Incomes and Overall Economic Growth De-linked? The Arithmetic of Rising Inequality: Falling Wage Growth for Most American Workers The Economics of Rising Inequality Lower Wage Growth Did Not Buy Greater Economic Security or Sustained Progress in Closing Racial Gaps How Did American Families Cope with Lower Wage Gowth and Rising Insecurity?VI. Where to from Here?Bibliography About EPI About the Author The State of Working America Website

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Book SynopsisIn From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society.Trade ReviewKuruvilla et al. chart the journey from employment security—known as the 'iron rice bowl' in colloquial Chinese—to informalization in 10 chapters. This sad tale is standard fare in the global labour studies literature, but the underlying arguments in this book are more nuanced and at times controversial.... This book... [is a] valuable addition to the Chinese labour relations canon. Kuruvilla et. al. point the way to further research opportunities.... -- Tim Pringle * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of Contents1. Introduction and Argument Mary E. Gallagher, Ching Kwan Lee, and Sarosh KuruvillaPart I: Informalization and the State2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market Albert Park and Fang Cai3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary China Mary E. Gallagher and Baohua Dong4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of Insecurity Mark W. FrazierPart II: Transformation of Employment Relations in Industries5. Enterprise Reform and Wage Movements in Chinese Oil Fields and Refineries Kun-Chin Lin6. The Paradox of Labor Force Dualism and State-Labor-Capital Relations in the Chinese Automobile Industry Lu Zhang7. Permanent Temporariness in the Chinese Construction Industry Sarah SwiderPart III: Unions, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Workers8. "Where There Are Workers, There Should Be Trade Unions": Union Organizing in the Era of Growing Informal Employment Mingwei Liu9. The Anti-Solidarity Machine?: Labor Nongovernmental Organizations in China Ching Kwan Lee and Yuan Shen10. Conclusion Mary E. Gallagher, Sarosh Kuruvilla, and Ching Kwan LeeNotes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members, now in its fifth edition.Trade ReviewLabor Guide to Labor Law admirably covers the highly complex field of labor law. * Labor Relations Law *This book is a well-written, concise, and understandable tool by which the layperson can gain a serious understanding of the legal aspects of contemporary labor relations. * Arbitration Journal *Table of ContentsPreface About the Fifth Edition How to Find a Case: A Guide to Basic Case Resources and Understanding Case and Statutory Citation FormatsChapter 1. Federal Regulation of Labor-Management Relations: A Statutory and Structural Overview Chapter 2. The Collective Bargaining Unit and Representation Elections Chapter 3. Union Organizing Rights and Election Campaigns Chapter 4. Protection of Employees' Rights to Concerted Activity and to Support Unions Chapter 5. The Duty to Bargain Chapter 6. Strikes, Striker Rights, and Lockouts Chapter 7. Picketing, Boycotts, and Related Activity Chapter 8. Union Regulation of Work and the Antitrust Laws: Hot Cargo Agreements, Jurisdictional Disputes, and Featherbedding Chapter 9. Enforcement of Collective Bargaining Agreements and the Duty to Arbitrate Chapter 10. Union Membership and Union Security Chapter 11. Rights and Responsibilities of Union Members Chapter 12. The Duty of Fair Representation Chapter 13. Unlawful Employer Relationships with Unions Chapter 14. Equal Employment Opportunity Chapter 15. Federal-State Relationships in Labor RelationsAnswers to Review QuestionsAbout the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisFor Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on the lives of migrants. When handicraft production was able to provide a viable alternative to agricultural labor, most migrants would travel to other parts of Mexico to sell their wares. Others opted to work for wages in the United States, returning to Mexico on a regular basis.This is no longer the case. At first almost everyone, including former craft vendors, headed north; however it also became more difficult to go back home and then reenter the United States. One migrant quoted by Schryer laments, Before I was an artisan and free to travel all over Mexico to sell my crafts. Here we are all locked in a box and cannot get out. NAFTA, migrant labor legislation, and more sTrade ReviewWritten for a wide audience, They Never Come Back will make a timely and engaging addition to undergraduate courses on globalization, Mexico, labor migration, and U.S. immigration politics.... The book especially shines in its description of small-town life in rural Mexico, a critical part of the migration equation that is missing from most migration scholarship. Another strength of the book is a clear and concise writing style, which makes it accessible to a broad audience that includes students.... They Never Come Back tackles some big issues, telling the stories of a small group of people with broader lessons about continuity and change, tradition and adaptation and workers' daily struggles to survive. -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Journal of Anthropological Research *As the current national attention continues to focus on undocumented workers, this book will prove to be an accessible aid to general readers hoping to gain insight into the world of these workers. Schryer (emer., Univ. of Guelph, Canada) rightly points to the fact that though the economic integration of goods and capital has made tremendous progress in US-Mexico relations, people moving across the border have been the victims of a dysfunctional immigration policy. This dysfunction resultsin enormous human cost and consequences on both sides of the border; families and children experience great personal trauma, especially the undocumented who live in the shadow of fear. Through anecdotes from the lives of people of the Altos Balsas region of Mexico, Schryer illustrates the push and pull factors that have created the situation of the undocumented worker and the benefits to rural Mexican villages where migrant dollars help sustain local economies. A human account of the anguish and life journeys of undocumented workers, the book is written in an accessible manner, which will serve both readers and policy makers well as they try to peer behind the statistics and polemics surrounding the policy response to undocumented workers in the US. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What Happened to the Mexican Miracle? 2. "Struggling to Get Ahead" 3. "No One Lives There" 4. "I Feel Sorry for Them" 5. "It Used to Be Easy to Cross the Border" 6. "In the United States All You Do Is Work" 7. "For Me It Is about the Same" 8. "Mexicans Are Good Workers" 9. "We Can Never Hang Out with Our Friends" 10. "They Only Send You Back if You Are Bad" 11. "We Must Carry On Our Ancestors' Traditions" 12. "I Don’t Have Much in Common with My Cousin" 13. The System Is BrokenSuggested Readings and References Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTom Zaniello's fascinating new guide to films about globalization—its origins, its relationship with colonialism, neocolonialism, the growth of migratory labor, and movements to counter or protest its adverse effects—offers readers and viewers the...Trade ReviewA clear and easy-to-navigate survey of films dealing with different aspects of globalization.... Strongly geared to educators, programmers and other concerned citizens, the main value of The Cinema of Globalization is simply in alerting the reader to the wealth of material that is out there awaiting discovery. The individual entries are generally informative on the content of films and the key issues covered.... It is a wonderful resource for dipping into and finding what you didn't know you were looking for. -- Catherine Lupton * Vertigo *It was bound to happen. A societal trend gathers enough steam to warrant not just one movie or a handful of films, but an entire genre. Just so you think the genre didn't begin and end with Dirty Pretty Things, Tom Zaniello, has assembled an eminently workable guide to more than 200 films where globalization and the mobile market for human capital registers in the plot. Zaniello doesn't offer his own thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Rather, he gives a rather dispassionate plot summary and includes at least one article on the film-often, a published critical review-that prospective viewers can read for further context and insight. Zaniello points to additional literature on the broad subject areas of the filmmakers, as well as a topical index at book's end. Not surprisingly, Wal-Mart merits its own citation, one of the largest in the index. This could be an indispensable reference work for an eyes-open labor studies program. A credit course would be feasible, either on globalization films, or on labor films, based on Zaniello's earlier work. Or these could be extra-credit options. This would also serve as a terrific resource if students wanted to start a film discussion group, since distribution details for virtually every film listed are included. * Labor Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisMiddle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over...Trade ReviewThis ethnography is an indisputable contribution to both Asian studies and anthropology and a pioneering work in the field of transnational migration studies. I strongly recommend this lively and readable study of the complex lives of domestic workers in Hong Kong as a textbook for use in a variety of classes. * American Ethnologist *An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers. * China Journal *Constable undertakes extensive naturalistic and participant observation.... The interviews are lively, presenting an array of experiences. * China Quarterly *Maid to Order in Hong Kong is a stimulating and compellingly written book. * American Anthropologist *The combination of analyses of the social structural forms of domination and the individual forms of resistance makes Constable's work insightful and useful. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *This book contains rich qualitative data and provides sophisticated analysis of the plights, resistance, and accommodation of domestic workers. The writing is highly engaging. I strongly recommend it to students of qualitative methodology, gender and migration studies, as well as to all those who are interested in agency and contestations of women, and who care about the struggles of the disadvantaged. -- Catherine C. H. Chiu * Work and Occupations *

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Book SynopsisU.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight...Trade ReviewIn her analysis of transnational advocacy campaigns around labor and economic rights within the broader human rights advocacy frame-work, Shareen Hertel emphasizes the ability of activists within countries and their transnational allies to impact and even shift the agendas of the campaigns. Hertel uses two high profile transnational advocacy campaigns to expand our understanding of the mechanisms in the evolution of norms and framing of human rights claims within such campaigns. Delivering a multifaceted explanation of the genesis and evolution of both campaigns, Hertel synthesizes rationalist, structural, and social movement analyses. Drawing upon Jonathan Fox's work, Hertel evaluates the effects of both campaigns with almost a decade's distance. In the end, she draws the conclusion that blocking produces more significant changes than backdoor movements. * Mobilization *

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Book SynopsisReveals how management regimes and company policy on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border apply different strategies to exploit their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.Trade ReviewTransnational Tortillas is a case study of two tortilla factories owned by the same company but located across the U.S.-Mexico border from each other. This transnational company organizes labor control differently in the two social and political contexts: The Mexican factory deploys a 'gender regime,' employing young women on the factory floor under the sexist supervision of men; while the U.S. factory uses an 'immigration regime,' employing undocumented Mexican men for the worst jobs and the night shift and Mexican American men (who are U.S. citizens) for the better jobs, some of which are unionized. -- Christine L. Williams * Gender & Society *Carolina Bank Munoz has written a passionate, polemical, but scrupulously objective volume on the intersection of race, gender, and class in two tortilla factories located on opposite sides of the United States–Mexico border in California. -- Julio César Pino * Enterprise & Society *The ethnographic data presented in Transnational Tortillas are impressive. The authorobserved workplace practices in both factory sites and interviewed managers and workers, giving us an insight not only into the mundanities of workplace practice on the production lines of a transnational tortilla firm, but also providing a look at the everyday lives of the workers themselves. -- Juanita Elias * International Studies Review *Ultimately, Bank Munoz has woven together admirably the macro, meso, and micro levels of state policies, labor markets, and workplace dynamics, producing a well-written, accessible, and fascinating account of exploitation and resistance among tortilla workers along the border. Transnational Tortillas should be of considerable value to scholars and students of labor, immigration, and global production. -- Gretchen Purser * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents1. The Tortilla Behemoth and Global Production 2. The Political Economy of Corn and Tortillas 3. A Tale of Two Countries: Immigration Policy and Globalization in the United States and Mexico 4. Hacienda CA: Immigration Regime 5. Hacienda BC: Gender Regime 6. Fighting Back? Resistance in the Age of Neoliberalism 7. Shop-Floor Politics in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisRoland Erne''s view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying the European Union''s democratic deficitthat is, its domination by corporate interests and lack of a cohesive European people. His book describes the emergence of a European trade union movement that crosses national boundaries. Erne assesses national and EU-level trade union politics in two core areas: wage bargaining in the European Monetary Union and job protection during transnational corporate mergers and restructuring. The wage coordination policies of the European metal and construction workers'' unions and the unions'' responses in the ABB-Alstom Power and Alcan-Pechiney-Algroup merger cases, Erne finds, show that the activities of labor are not confined to the national level: labor''s policies have undergone Europeanization. This cross-national borrowing of tactics is itself proof of the increasing integration of European states and societies.Trade ReviewEuropean Unions is a very useful, well-constructed, and welcome contribution to a growing literature on the coordination of unions at the European level and is particularly valuable for its case studies. Erne handles the complexities of his subject well, applies his theoretical framework in a convincing way, and provides enough well-marshaled detail to persuade the reader of at least parts of his case. * Industrial Relations *Erne provides strong empirical evidence that unions not only are affected by European integration but also affect future EU developments through their actions. Erne provides readers with a timely and useful analysis of the ways that economic integration is changing the power resources of organized labor in Europe, the types of strategies unions have developed in response, and the role that labor may play in shaping the political development of the EU down the road. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Erne's pertinent study of European trade unionism is a sophisticated, nuanced examination of organized labor's attempt to create a transnational democracy in the EU. * Choice *Though European Unions is several years old, the book's discussion and analytic considerations relating to citizenry, democracy, collective action and bargaining, and governance remain topical. Indeed, the book's central claims are worth revisiting considering the trade union and labor resistance to austerity measures being implemented throughout Europe today. * Critical Sociology *Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I. Analytical Framework2. Approaching Euro-Democracy and Its Alternatives3. Do Unions Have an Interest in Euro-Democratization?Part II. European Labor Wage-Bargaining Strategies4. Wage Policy and the European Monetary Union5. The Rise of National Competitive Corporatism6. European Wage-Bargaining Coordination Networks: Insights from the Manufacturing and the Construction Industry7. Beyond Competitive Corporatism?: Insights from Germany, France, and ItalyPart III. Responses by Labor to Transnational Company Mergers8. The European Regulation of Transnational Company Mergers9. A Euro-Democratization Union Strategy: The ABB Alstom Power Case10. A Euro-Technocratization Union Strategy: The Alcan-Pechiney-Algroup Case11. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisLeon Stein's gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read.Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History and other booksPraise for the 1962 editionStein recreates the tragic events of the fire in all their dramatic intensity. His moving account is a work of dedication.New York Times Book ReviewWith commendable restraint, Stein uses newspapers, official documents, and the evidence of survivors to unfold a story made more harrowing by the unemotional simplicity of its narration.Library JournalStein... suggests that the fire alerted the public to shocking working conditions all over the city and helped the unions organize the clothing industry, but his good taste keeps him from selling the reader any silver lining. A by-product ofTrade ReviewStein recreates the tragic events of the fire in all their dramatic intensity. His moving account is a work of dedication. * New York Times Book Review *Stein suggests that the fire alerted the public to shocking working conditions all over the city and helped the unions organize the clothing industry, but his good taste keeps him from selling the reader any silver lining. A by-product of the careful research that has gone into this excellent narrative is an interesting sketch of the hard lives and times of working girls in the days when the business of America was business. * The New Yorker *With commendable restraint, Stein uses newspapers, official documents, and the evidence of survivors to unfold a story made more harrowing by the unemotional simplicity of its narration. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword to the Centennial Edition By Michael HirschIntroduction to the 2001 Cornell Edition: "Who Will Protect the Working Girl?" By William GreiderPart I 1. Fire 2. Trap 3. Eighth 4. Tenth 5. Ninth 6. Escape 7. Night 8. Day 9. MorguePart II 10. Guilt 11. Help 12. Protest 13. Dirge 14. Shirtwaist 15. Protection 16. Justice 17. Phoenix 18. FirePostscript IndexNew to the Centennial Edition: Triangle Fire Victims Compiled by Michael Hirsch This is the definitive list of the people who died in the Triangle Fire, and includes their likely age and address at the time of their death, sex, birth country, religion, and final resting place.

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Book SynopsisSurveying the new culture of corporate employment and unemployment.Trade Review"A Company of One is a commendable addition to the growing literature on the New Economy. Carrie Lane makes her contribution by focusing on the ideologies and internal thought processes of workers affected by tumultuous employment and the emphasis on career managementrather than just on the documentation of those trends... A Company of One is smoothly writtenwell organized and a pleasure to read... Lane accomplishes what she set out to dowhich was to detail how individuals wrap their minds around tumultuous employment and march on." —Kathryn DensbergerUniversity of Richmond, * The British Sociological Association *In A Company of One, Carrie Lane reveals ways in which unemployed technology workers seek to manage the uncharted territory between jobs. She documents the strategies these workers use and analyzes the cultural logic through which they understand unemployment. Her analysis reveals the contradictions of an ideology of independence that obscures structural disadvantage and impedes recognition of broader relations of power.... Historically and geographically situated, this book helps to explain the resilience of individualism. Ideas about work, Lane shows, can withstand considerable challenge and yet continue to inform both meaning and action. -- Debra Osnowitz * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fortitude, Faith, and the Free Market 1. Silicon Prairie 2. A Company of One 3. The Hardest Job You'll Ever Have 4. Rituals of Unemployment 5. Man Enough to Let My Wife Support Me EpilogueNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLabor organizers now recognize both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. This book compares the experiences of these groups in South Korea and the US.Trade ReviewOrganizing at the Margins successfully points to the importance of extralegal tactics used in campaigns seeking to redefine the working conditions of low-wage contract and subcontracted employees who lack the legal protections afforded to regularly employed workers. This well-organized book lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork for further cross-national analyses of campaigns that use symbolic leverage in support of the struggles of marginalized workers. * American Journal of Sociology *In an excellent work, Jennifer Jihye Chun compares concrete cases of labour organization by marginalized workers in these two different countries and situates them within the context of broader shifts in power between labour, capital and the state. * Pacific Affairs *Jennifer Jihye Chun's comparison of two seemingly very different labor movements—the militant Korean movement on the one hand and the bureaucratic U.S. movement on the other—reveals striking similarities in their leverage of power for the powerless. In Organizing at the Margins, Chun skillfully examines how and under what conditions marginalized workers successfully challenge their employment status. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Jennifer Jihye Chun's rigorous methodology incorporates a masterful blend of comparative historical and ethnographic approaches and her writing is lucid and fine-grained. This book reveals eye-opening connections and parallels between the South Korean and U.S. labor movements’ responses to the erosion of workers’ rights in the face of neoliberal globalization policies. It is a must-read for scholars of labor and labor movements, as well as an engaging text that will provoke students to think about how ideas of justice and morality are forged through protest, state policies, and public sentiments. * Contemporary Sociology *This book comprises a fascinating comparison of the seemingly incomparable—namely, labor movement strategies to organize marginalized service sector workers in the United States and South Korea. Chun draws on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of classification struggle and symbolic power to provide a substantial theoretical understanding of new forms of struggle in a way that I have not seen done elsewhere; in doing this she demonstrates the value of bringing new theoretical perspectives to bear on labor studies, a field sorely in need of this. * Global Labour Journal *Table of Contents1. The Symbolic Leverage of Labor 2. Employer and State Offensives against Unionized Workers 3. Reconstructing the Marginalized Workforce 4. Social Movement Legacies and Organizing the Marginalized 5. What Is an "Employer"? Organizing Subcontracted University Janitors 6. What Is a "Worker"? Organizing Independently Contracted Home Care Workers and Golf Caddies 7. Dilemmas of Organizing Workers at the MarginsNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is work? Is it simply a burden to be tolerated or something more meaningful to one''s sense of identity and self-worth? And why does it matter? In a uniquely thought-provoking book, John W. Budd presents ten historical and contemporary views of work from across the social sciences and humanities. By uncovering the diverse ways in which we conceptualize worksuch as a way to serve or care for others, a source of freedom, a source of income, a method of psychological fulfillment, or a social relation shaped by class, gender, race, and powerThe Thought of Work reveals the wide-ranging nature of work and establishes its fundamental importance for the human experience. When we work, we experience our biological, psychological, economic, and social selves. Work locates us in the world, helps us and others make sense of who we are, and determines our access to material and social resources.By integrating these distinct views, Budd replaces the usual fragmentary approachesTrade ReviewBudd does an excellent job of describing how work has utterly triumphed among us... but also confronts the issue of the deeply and widely held view that work no longer offers food for the soul and that many people's experience of paid employment is characterized by a radical loss of meaningfulness beyond its obvious and fundamental functionality. -- Paul Gilfillan * Work, Employment & Society *John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates. -- Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral SciencesThe Ohio State University and past editor, * American Sociological Review *This is a really useful and important book for anyone working or especially teaching in the field of employment studies.... The book can be used in a number of ways and at different levels to teach about work. It is, for example, an excellent way to introduce students to the general subject matter of economic life. Importantly, it invites the reader to think in theoretical, conceptual and at times philosophical ways about work.... Budd and his publisher are to be congratulated on producing a text that will be an invaluable resource for teachers and students of sociology, philosophy, management and business, as well as other disciplines. The book deserves to be a staple on any self-respecting critical reading list on work and employment. The Thought of Work is part of a real renaissance in the interdisciplinary study of work and is to be applauded. -- Tim Strangleman * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Work as a Curse 2. Work as Freedom 3. Work as a Commodity 4. Work as Occupational Citizenship 5. Work as Disutility 6. Work as Personal Fulfillment 7. Work as a Social Relation 8. Work as Caring for Others 9. Work as Identity 10. Work as Service Conclusion: Work MattersNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolutionand eventual downfallof the communist regime.Kenney compares Lödz, Poland''s largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. His account of dramatic strikes in the textile mills of Lödz shows how workers resisted the communist party''s encroachment on factory terrain and its infringements of worker dignity. The contrasting absence of labor conflict among migrants in the frontier city of Wroclaw holds important clues to the nature of stalinism in Poland: communist power was strongest where workers lacked organizational ties or cultural roots. In theTrade Review"This book is a solid, well-researched, and well-argued study of the origins of the communist era in Poland. It shows the significance of gender differences in determining working-class action and demonstrates the complexity of Polish labor history, clearly delineating the differences between two working-class communities: Lodz and Wroclaw."—Richard D. Lewis, Slavic Review"With the passage of time and the opening of archives after the fall of Communism new and more soundly based academic perspectives are emerging about many key issues concerning the establishment of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. Kenney's well-documented study refutes both extreme views. . . . He traces out a more complex and dynamic interpretation. . . . Kenney presents two detailed, but highly contrasting, case-studies of Lödz and Wroclaw in the 1945–50 period."—George Sanford, Slavonic and East European Review"An important book on an important subject. Padraic Kenney has made a major contribution to our understanding of the social and political evolution of post-war east-central Europe." —Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisTo cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitalsleading to an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections, a leading cause of severe illness and deathas well as for the effective delivery of other hospital services and the workers themselves. Zuberi's interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about Trade ReviewCleaning Up affords its readers crucial insight into the healthcare industry, closely examining thesocial and economic costs of profit-driven healthcare. Healthcare policy affects so many people:workers, patients, and all of their families. Zuberi succeeds in proving his point: it is time to take actionto improve our healthcare system. -- Michelle A. Dressner * Monthly Labor Review *A book like this could easily read as a litany of woe and injustice, but the finalchapter, simply titled Cleaning Up, seeks to provide a roadmap forward thataddresses HAIs and worker justice....The book is written in an engaging and polemical style and the subject matterlends itself to catchy chapter titles and by-lines. -- Shaun Ryan * Journal of Industrial Relations *Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advancedindustrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude ofthe problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation. Sadly,even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy inhis new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospital support staff outsourcingon patients and workers. -- Adam Seth Litwin * Work and Occupations *While this empirically informed book makes for a quick and easy read, it is both informative and thought-provoking. Zuberi's book provides a wealth of evidence that the outsourcing of hospital jobs has resulted in deteriorating working conditions and that, in turn, such conditions are the cause of an increase in hospital acquired infections....undoubtedly a valuable addition to the literature on the quality of care in hospitals and its links to the privatisation and out-sourcing of healthcare services. -- Eleanor K. Johnson * Sociology of Health and Illness *Table of Contents1. "Stuff Gets Missed": An Introduction to a Growing Health Care Crisis2. Germs, Blood, and Cost-Cutting: The Daily Struggle to Keep Hospitals Clean3. Compromising Cleanliness: How Outsourcing Keeps Hospital Workers from Doing Their Jobs4. Untrained Workers, Unfit Managers5. Breaking Up the Team6. Down and Out in Vancouver: Struggling, Stressed, and Exhausted Hospital Support Workers7. Cleaning UpNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisDublin provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, testing the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment.Trade ReviewIn his impressively researched book, Thomas Dublin examines the transformation of women's work in New England, the first American region to be reshaped by the Industrial Revolution.... A valuable addition to the scholar's shelf. The data provide the single most detailed description of women and work a century ago. * New York Times Book Review *No historian has done more to illuminate the achievements of female labor in the early textile mills than Thomas Dublin.... In this latest book, he provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, giving us the chance to test the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment. He mines a breathtaking array of sources, including business records, census data, deeds, wills, diaries, and personal correspondence, to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding women's work in New England from the 1820s to 1900.... Dublin's ingenious detective work in matching families in archival sources enables him to make important points. * Women's Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book exemplifies salutary trends in anthropology: practice theory, respect for ethnography in the face of the inadequacy of one-dimensional theoretical abstraction, and the importance of time depth. You may learn more than you ever wanted to about strawberries in California, but you will understand it and that will help you understand other phenomena. -- E. Paul Durrenberger, University of Iowa * American Anthropologist *

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Book SynopsisWhy do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. Perlow doesn''t buy it. She challenges the basic assumption that the more employees work, the better the corporation will do.For nine months, Perlow studied the work practices of a product development team of software engineers at a Fortune 500 corporation. She reports her findings in detailed stories about individual employees and in more analytic chapters. Perlow first describes the individual heroics necessary to succeed in the existing work culture. She then explains how the system of rewards perpetuates crises and continuous interruptions,while discouraging cooperation. Finally, she shows how the resulting work practices damage both organizational productivity and the quality of individuaTrade Review"In her brilliant, qualitative study of the high pressure work culture of engineers, Leslie Perlow gives us a picture of workers in a chronic sense of crisis, pelted by interruptions and too busy to help colleagues. This work culture sucks time out of workers' home lives, and—here's the surprise—it also hurts the bottom line. This is must reading for anyone who manages workers, and for any worker who's managed." -- Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work"It's not how hard you work, it's how you work—this is the idea of Finding Time... As long as 'efficiency and effectiveness are simply not valued to the same degree as physical presence and sacrifices in life outside of work,' Perlow suggest, both corporation and employees will suffer." -- Judith Newman, New York Times Book Review"Perlow is an excellent storyteller. She captivates her readers through vivid and poignant accounts of the lives of the engineers, at times letting the anguished voices of the spouses be heard.... This well-written book addresses an important issue in today's workplace where people are being asked to work both harder and smarter.... Finding Time is worthwhile reading for a number of audiences. For researchers, it provides an excellent example of qualitative research. In addition, this book reminds individuals who are involved in implementing flexible work policies that, to be effective, such policies should be consistent with the organization's reward structure and cultural norms. It suggests to managers that they may wish to rethink their notions of productivity and what makes for a productive employee. For individuals whose work requires both individual effort and interaction with others, this book offers an innovative and practical solution for combating constant interruptions. Finally, to all of us,... this book presents an interesting opportunity to reconsider our personal definitions of success and what (or who) we are willing to sacrifice in the process of achieving success. Why win the (rat) race if there is no one at the finish line with you?""Perlow's book goes beyond the usual 'solutions' to work/family conflicts to offer innovative and practical solutions that benefit both men and women at work and at home." -- Joanne Martin, Stanford University (Business)"Perlow's evidence from her extensive fieldwork for this book is reason enough to read it.... Finding Time will give the reader a close look at engineering work inside a large corporation and much to think about. The book is accessible to a broad range of readers, and it would be useful in graduate and undergraduate courses on work-related matters." -- Clifford L. Staples, Review of Radical Political Economics, September 1999"There is often a negative effect on family life when professionals work long hours. Perlow sets out to determine if, in spite of the personal consequences, the corporation benefits when professionals work long hours.... The book tells the sad tale of a workforce that suffers the consequences of long hours under the assumption that accommodation to work demands will bring both personal and corporate success.... The author concludes that with long work hours there is so much wasted time through interruptions, time taken to help others or to be helped, and a constant crisis mentality that no one benefits. Perlow gives advice for improving the situation, including a shift from individual to team achievement.""This book is an elegant and readable argument for consideration of a real and contemporary social problem.""This study makes explicit a set of time dynamics that have been tough to grasp. The result is a vivid portrait of the vicious circles that often undermine our naive belief that time is something we can manage." -- Karl Weick, University of Michigan"Using single men, working mothers and working fathers as examples, Perlow presents employees' chronicles in which they detail everything they do from when they get up to arrival at the office to lunchtime to going to bed.... While there are real difficulties—working mothers, rather than fathers, still have more responsibilities at home and will stay home with a sick child—there are also issues of perception. Driven, successful people are perceived to work long hours, to expand their workdays to include formal and impromptu discussions. So, while some employees requested flexible schedules, flextime seemed to hinder an employee's chances for promotion.... As a portrait of what is an all-too-common situation—employees finding there aren't enough hours in the day to meet their work and family demands—this is an interesting portrait."

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation.Trade ReviewA valuably argumentative and well-written analysis. -- Stephen Amberg * American Political Science Review *The book's strengths are numerous. First, it tells a fascinating story. Second, its theoretical grip is forceful. Third, it is rich in institutional detail. Fourth, it puts labor's role into the broader electoral/legislative contexts it deserves. Fifth, it is interpretively balance—not polemically annoying. The Unions and the Democrats is must reading. -- Marick F. Masters * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *It is a wonderful book, not the least because it traverses ground that has so rarely been covered.... Dark's book is not merely descriptive. His analytical framework draws on the exchange metaphor, in which the leadership structure of organized labor and of the political system at large are the central independent variables.... The Unions and the Democrats is a superb rendering of a very difficult subject, of interest to those who study American labor, Congress, the presidency, and recent American history. It should spur renewed study of a long-neglected subject. -- John C. Gerring, Boston University * Political Science Quarterly *The Unions and the Democrats is one of the best books on both subjects in recent years.... It would be difficult to identify a book that is more informative about the political dynamics of organized labor in the United States. * Labor Watch *This welcome book provides a much needed update on the national political influence of organized labor. In a fair and balanced assessment, Dark demonstrates labor's continuing influence, even in the face of a general labor decline. * Choice *Well-documented. * Booklist *

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Book Synopsis"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally alter their internal organizational practices. This means creating more organizer positions on the staff; developing...Trade Review"You've seen the numbers on union density and representation elections. You've heard the AFL-CIO mantra 'organize, organize, organize.' Behind the numbers is the behavior of real people: organizers, workers who want to unionize, and workers who do not. Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement tells their story in compelling terms. This is a powerful book about the reality of unionism in today's United States."—Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University and author of What Do Unions Do? and What Workers Want"Theory and praxis are here united in a practical, yet methodologically sophisticated set of studies that probe the difficult terrain of twenty-first-century union organizing. Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss are among our most surefooted guides to this new frontier."—Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, University of California at Santa Barbara and author of State of the Union: A Century of American Labor"With working people facing the worst crisis in generations and corporate power surging out of control, the union movement—now only 8 percent of the private sector workforce—can no longer afford strategies, structures, and cultures that are 75 years old. We need an historic transformation to involve workers and communities in forming unions in whole industries, whole corporations, and whole markets and regions—both in the U.S. and across borders."—Andrew L. Stern, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)"Rebuilding Labor breaks new ground in providing rich empirical material and careful analysis for understanding the dynamics of contemporary labor organizing. The book as a whole is a very persuasive demonstration of the crucial value of systematic empirical research for the labor movement."—Richard Flacks, University of California at Santa Barbara

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Book SynopsisWe are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the...Trade ReviewBeth Israel was an international benchmark hospital which many saw as setting the nursing standards to be achieved elsewhere. This account of its recent history carries important messages about the domination of economics over the need for nursing care, the fragility of even the best nursing leadership during amalgamations, and the ease with which a reputation can be lost. -- Tom Keighley * Nursing Management *Hospital restructuring has fundamentally changed nurses' work and the very meaning of nursing. It has overlooked the therapeutic value of the nurse-patient relationship and the importance of 'knowing the patient.' Is it any wonder, then, that so many nurses are leaving the profession because of frustration and disillusionment? In the end, this hurts nurses as well as patients, physicians, and hospitals. Weinberg concludes that when designers draw up cost-effective plans for hospital restructuring, they must thoughtfully include nurses in their planning. The author is to be congratulated on bringing this important topic into view. -- Barbara Mann Wall * Health Affairs *Hospitals frequently devise a system of color codes to convey a message to their personnel succinctly and exclusively. Weinberg chooses 'code green' to refer to the financial crisis that hospitals are facing today, the ensuing trend to merge hospitals, and its implications for the nursing profession.... This thought-provoking book gives a uniquely personal perspective. It is suitable for specialized healthcare collections in academic, larger public, and medical libraries. * Library Journal *In this thorough investigation into how the nursing profession has changed radically over the last decade, Weinberg cites hospital consolidation and 1997's Balanced Budget Act, which brought cuts to Medicare payments and severely affected hospitals' bottom line, as keys to the problem. The Brandeis University research associate uses the merger of Boston's prestigious Beth Israel Hospital with New England Deaconess as an example of how fiscal problems and consolidation are responsible for the growing shortage of nurses and rampant dissatisfaction in the field.... Weinberg's analysis will be important to medical professionals and hospital administrators. * Publishers Weekly *The author scrutinizes how and why hospitals, in the era of profit-driven health care, routinely exploit qualities such as empathy, dedication, and professionalism in nurses. Using human science research, she illustrates how nurses really are 'ripe for exploitation,' in part because we internalize responsibility for patient care, patient safety and the caring-healing process. -- Virginia Gillispie * Denver's Nursing Star *Weinberg provides an incredible account of her observations of the state of nursing at the newly merged Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center. Her goal was 'to find out why the nurses are crying.' Each chapter thoroughly examines current issues faced by the professional nursing staff as seen through their eyes. These issues are similar to those faced by nurses nationally as financial goals take precedence to quality patient care.... An excellent account of challenges faced by nurses today. Summing Up: Essential. * Choice *Weinberg's book is a powerful description of the issues facing both nurses and hospitals at a time when the entire health care industry is concerned with a growing shortage of nurses. Her portrayal of the impediments faced by nurses in their efforts to continue to provide quality patient care are well-documented, and, in many instances, frightening. The book makes clear nurses' contributions to patient safety and quality-even if the nurses themselves were unable to do so. -- Barbara A. Mark, Ph.D., RN, A * Journal of the American Medical Association *

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Book SynopsisIn Breaking the Mold Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them.Trade ReviewIn the second edition of Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn presents a compelling case for moving away from restrictive assumptions of organizational life and creating a new set of assumptions to facilitated success at work and at home. Bailyn has revised and updated her short and immensely readable work in light of the political, social, and economic changes the country has undergone since the publication of the first edition in 1993, including a significant shift in the demographics of the workplace. The result is a timely and thoughtful look at how employers and employees today must reconsider the conditions of employment and the link between the public and private spheres in a changing world. Throughout the book, Bailyn uses well-integrated vignettes and case studies to illustrate how outmoded assumptions about work and life can negatively impact both employers and employees, and what those willing to rethink these assumptions can achieve. -- Delaney Anderson * Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The World We Live In Interlude I. Nancy Wright: Success? 2.Organizational Constraints: Defining the Road to Success 3. Individual Constraints: Occupational Demands on Private Life 4. Family as a Complicating Issue for Organizations Interlude II. Elizabeth Gray: Failure? 5. Rethinking Commitment and Time 6. Rethinking Equity and Control 7. Pathways to Change Interlude III. The Thompsons: Promise of Things to Come? 8. Envisioning the Future

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Book SynopsisUnder the editorship of Peter J. Katzenstein, thirteen distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic here provide an original interpretation of the political economy of the Bonn Republic during the forty years since its founding, and explore in particular its extraordinary capacity for accommodating change.

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Book SynopsisAffirmative action: does it really counteract racism? Is it morally justifiable? In her timely and tough-minded book, Gertrude Ezorsky addresses these central issues in the ongoing controversy surrounding affirmative action, and comes up with some...Trade ReviewA lucid, refreshingly elegant guide to the history and moral foundations of affirmative action. In an era when so many programs are under attack as 'mere quota systems,' this book is an indispensable reminder of their variety and potential. * The Nation *Ezorsky's discussion of affirmative action programs is quietly methodical and admirably clearheaded. It is a useful starting point for any discussion of the morality of affirmative action. * Publishers Weekly *Racism and Justice will add to the national debate on affirmative action. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisIndustry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin. The book reviewed several momentous crises in North American labour-management relations, revealed the background to various important pieces of Canadian legislation in the field of social welfare, and provided a broad rationale for the establishment of a new programme of democracy in industry.Industry and Humanity is not only a history of King's career as industrial relations expert and consultant for the Canadian government and several giant American corporations. It also contains illustrations and analogies from his urban industrial and educational experiences. He did settlement work, examined working conditions and trade unionism in his graduate studies at unive

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Book SynopsisIn the 1880s Canadians began to cope with the meaning of their emerging industrial society. During that decade the federal government first investigated industrial conditions and provincial governments passed Canada's first factory legislation. The same period saw the resurgence of an articulate and angry labor movement protesting against the excesses of modern industry. Through the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital we can perhaps gain our best insight into the everyday world of workers and capitalists in late nineteenth-century Canada. The commission gathered evidence in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and talked to thousands of workers, businessmen, and other concerned citizens. This edited version of its investigation includes much of the best testimony; it describes working class living conditions, the emergence of organized labor, and the attitudes of businessmen to industrial capitalism. The testimony takes us with the commissioners o

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