Industrial relations, occupational health Books

Book SynopsisThrough careful consideration of the mutually plausible yet conflicting arguments on both sides of the issue, Alan Goldman attempts to derive a morally consistent position on the justice (or injustice) of reverse discrimination. From a philosophical framework that appeals to a contractual model of ethics, he develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity. He then applies these principles to the issue at hand, bringing his conclusions to bear on an evaluation of Affirmative Action programs as they tend to work in practice.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to tTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*TWO. Awarding Positions by Competence, pg. 22*THREE. Compensation and the Past, pg. 65*FOUR. Equal Opportunity and the Future, pg. 141*FIVE. Conclusion, pg. 230*NOTES, pg. 235*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 241*INDEX, pg. 247

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Illustrations, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xiii*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. Age Distributions and Exits from Academia, pg. 15*CHAPTER THREE. Population Trends and Enrollment Projections, pg. 30*CHAPTER FOUR. Enrollment by Sector and Field of Study: Trends and Projections, pg. 43*CHAPTER FIVE. Student/Faculty Ratios and Projections of Faculty Positions, pg. 66*CHAPTER SIX. The Supply of New Doctorates, pg. 90*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Balance between Supply and Demand, pg. 118*CHAPTER EIGHT. Adjustment Mechanisms, pg. 144*CHAPTER NINE. Questions of Policy, pg. 172*APPENDIX A. Principal Sources of Data and Definitions of Fields of Study and Sectors, pg. 187*APPENDIX B. Derivation of Exit Probabilities, pg. 193*APPENDIX C. Correcting for Shifts in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions, pg. 204*APPENDIX D. Additional Tables for Chapters Four, Six, and Seven, pg. 206*Publications Cited, pg. 221

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*List of Abbreviations, pg. xv*Chapter 1. Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 2. Analysis of Highly Individualistic Work, pg. 15*Chapter 3. University Faculty: Careers and Pay, pg. 30*Chapter 4. Business Executives: Careers and Pay, pg. 54*Chapter 5. Professionals and Executives under Federal Civil Service, pg. 72*Chapter 6. Comparison of Three Systems of Work Relations, pg. 91*Chapter 7. Analysis of Salary Structures for Bias, pg. 106*Chapter 8. Federal Regulatory Programs, pg. 133*Chapter 9. Faculty under Contract Compliance, pg. 145*Chapter 10. Application of the Equal Pay Act, pg. 177*Chapter 11. Business Executives under Contract Compliance, pg. 193*Chapter 12. Antibias Regulation of Federal Employment, pg. 209*Chapter 13. Age Discrimination and Retirement, pg. 239*Chapter 14. Analytical Problems in Antibias Programs, pg. 271*Chapter 15. Lessons from Analyses and Experience, pg. 287*Appendix. Faculty Salary Studies, pg. 299*Notes, pg. 307*Bibliography, pg. 347*Index, pg. 373

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*List of Figures, pg. x*List of Tables, pg. xi*One. Introduction, pg. 1*Two. Measures of Labor Force Dimensions, pg. 15*Three. Regional Patterns, pg. 45*Four. Economic Development and Relative Size of the Labor Force, pg. 78*Five. The Decrease of Participation by Males in the Labor Force in the Process of Economic Development, pg. 93*Six. Changes in Women's Participation in the Labor Force in the Process of Economic Development, pg. 123*Seven. Review of Principal Findings, pg. 147*Appendices, pg. 161*Index, pg. 255

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Abbreviations, pg. xv*I. Eastern Europe and the Western Powers, 1871-1930, pg. 1*II. The German Foreign Office and Southeastern Europe, 1930-1932, pg. 17*III. The Advent of Hitler and the German Trade Treaties of 1934-1935, pg. 57*IV. British Trade Policy and Eastern Europe, 1931-1935, pg. 81*V. Political Diplomacy in Eastern Europe, 1931-1935, pg. 100*VI. German Trade with Eastern Europe, 1934-1937, pg. 130*VII. Britain and Eastern Europe, 1935-1937, pg. 170*VIII. France and Eastern Europe, 1935-1937, pg. 197*IX. 1938: Germany's Triumph, pg. 218*X. Germany and Eastern Europe from Munich to War, pg. 263*XI. British and French Policy from Munich to War, pg. 284*XII. Conclusion, pg. 316*Appendix, pg. 319*Bibliography, pg. 329*Index, pg. 339*Backmatter, pg. 347

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Book SynopsisDisruption claims often impact the whole of the construction industry, so this book has been written for anyone who is involved in submitting, evaluating, awarding, managing and resolving disruption claims.Table of ContentsIntroduction Construction contract disruption claims Cost and time modelling Demonstration stage 1: The development of cost and time models built around labour/resource productivity Demonstration Stage 2: The development of a disruption and site labour productivity measurement scheme Demonstration Stage 3: Measuring disruption and site labour productivity in practice Demonstration Stage 4: Quantifying the effect of disruption on site labour prodctivity Demonstration Stage 5: Managing disruption and improving site labour productivity Demonstration Stage 6: Practical use of productivity measurements in quantifying disruption Quantifying diruption: The legal issues

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Book SynopsisThis manual advises readers on real-life situations, providing an authoritative, highly practical and invaluable reference for practising engineers, technicians and other construction professionals, as well as a comprehensive overview of the topic for students.Table of Contents1. Legal principles 2. Responsibilities of key duty holders in construction design and management 3. Culture and Leadership in the Construction Industry 4. Managing workers’ conditions 5. The different phases in construction – design in health and safety to the project life cycle 6. Prevention through Design and the Opportunity for Creativity - An International Perspective 7. Establishing operational control processes 8. Occupational health and safety management systems 9. IT for Health and Safety in Construction Design and Management 10. Procurement 11. Recognising health hazards in construction 12. Assessing health issues in construction 13. Controlling exposure to chemical hazards 14. Controlling exposure to biological hazards 15. Controlling exposure to physical hazards 16. Assessing safety issues in construction 17. Working at height and roofwork 18. Excavations and piling 19. Confined spaces 20. Falsework [and Formwork - Temporary Works Design]

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Book SynopsisTransport affects everyone - it enables access to social activities, employment, leisure, goods, and services. This report highlights the various ways in which transport policy affects health, considering not the more obvious effects but also other consequences of transport policy. It is for students, policy makers, town planners, and doctors.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Patterns of transport use in Great Britain. The health benefits of road transport policy. The health impact of road transport. Reducing health risks and increasing health benefits through transport policy. Towards road transport and health. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, well referenced text provides an up to date review of what is known scientifically about occupational and environmental causes of sickness, disability, and death. It also includes information on the scientific methods used in acquiring this knowledge, making it a complete reference for both clinicians in occupational medicine, and researchers.Trade Review"this is a thoroughly recommendable textbook both for those working in the field of occupational epidemiology and, in particular, those in training in the subject" - Journal of Epidemiology and Community HealthTable of ContentsContributors. Preface To The Second Edition. Introduction. 1 Occupational epidemiology. Occupational Cancer. 2 Metals and chemicals. 3 Ionising radiation. 4 Electromagnetic fields. 5 Asbestos. 6 Man made mineral fibres. 7 Silica. Non-Maligant Diseases. 8 Asthma. 9 Dermatoses. 10 Neurobehavioural disorders. 11 Noises and vibration. 12 Back and limb disorders. 13 Injuries at work. 14 Work stress. 15 Work in agriculture. 16 Work and pregnancy. 17 Occupation and infertility. Methodology. 18 Study design. 19 Assessment of exposure. 20 Measurement of outcome. 21 Molecular assessment of exposure, effect, and effect modification. 22 Evaluation of preventive measures. 23 Analysis and interpretation. Commentary. 24 Setting health based standards from the occupational to the general environment. Index.

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Book SynopsisSince capitalism began, British workers have always fought for their rights. Today it's no different. -- KOTrade Review'An incisive analysis of the impact of twenty-first-century capitalism on work that charts the creative ways in which workers are fighting back against modern day exploitation' -- John McDonnell, Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington'Shows the stark reality that, while we have developed more creative ways of winning and seem to be winning more, the impact of capitalism and exploitation of workers hasn't changed very much at all' -- Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union'A much-needed look at one of the biggest issues for employment relations research and trade unions today: precarious workers. Any study of contemporary union organising that embraces rank and file militancy as a way of building networks of solidarity is a welcome contribution to the debate' -- Dave Smith, co-author of the book 'Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists' (New Internationalist, 2016)'Deserves to become a guidebook for labour movement activists that can help to further energise collective resilience and resistance' -- Ralph Darlington, Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford'We have a decision to make: we can sit back and hope the trade unionists of tomorrow will emerge, or we can fight together for the future the next generation deserves. ‘Nothing To Lose But Our Chains’ inspires us with contemporary and ongoing tales of fighting and winning' -- Rohan Kon, Organiser for Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise'A welcome reassertion of the crucial inter-relationship of gender and class in the struggle between labour and capital, placing recent industrial action by women workers centre stage' -- Sian Moore, Professor in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, University of GreenwichTable of Contents1. Changing Terrains of Work and Struggle 2. Neoliberal Britain 3. Narratives and Numbers of British Capitalism 4. New Icons of Work? The 'Gig' Economy and Precarious Labour 5. Explosive Struggles and Bitter Defeats 6. Opening the 'Black Box' of Trade Unions 7. Striking Women: Still Hidden from History 8. Migrant Workers: Here to Stay, Here to Fight 9. Taking the Bosses to the Cleaners 10. Working and Organising in New 'Satanic Mills' 11. Education Workers on the Frontline 12. 'New Kids on the Block' 13. Capitalism's Gravediggers'

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Book SynopsisSince capitalism began, British workers have always fought for their rights. Today it's no different. -- KOTrade Review'An incisive analysis of the impact of twenty-first-century capitalism on work that charts the creative ways in which workers are fighting back against modern day exploitation' -- John McDonnell, Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington'Shows the stark reality that, while we have developed more creative ways of winning and seem to be winning more, the impact of capitalism and exploitation of workers hasn't changed very much at all' -- Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union'A much-needed look at one of the biggest issues for employment relations research and trade unions today: precarious workers. Any study of contemporary union organising that embraces rank and file militancy as a way of building networks of solidarity is a welcome contribution to the debate' -- Dave Smith, co-author of the book 'Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists' (New Internationalist, 2016)'Deserves to become a guidebook for labour movement activists that can help to further energise collective resilience and resistance' -- Ralph Darlington, Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford'We have a decision to make: we can sit back and hope the trade unionists of tomorrow will emerge, or we can fight together for the future the next generation deserves. ‘Nothing To Lose But Our Chains’ inspires us with contemporary and ongoing tales of fighting and winning' -- Rohan Kon, Organiser for Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise'A welcome reassertion of the crucial inter-relationship of gender and class in the struggle between labour and capital, placing recent industrial action by women workers centre stage' -- Sian Moore, Professor in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, University of GreenwichTable of Contents1. Changing Terrains of Work and Struggle 2. Neoliberal Britain 3. Narratives and Numbers of British Capitalism 4. New Icons of Work? The 'Gig' Economy and Precarious Labour 5. Explosive Struggles and Bitter Defeats 6. Opening the 'Black Box' of Trade Unions 7. Striking Women: Still Hidden from History 8. Migrant Workers: Here to Stay, Here to Fight 9. Taking the Bosses to the Cleaners 10. Working and Organising in New 'Satanic Mills' 11. Education Workers on the Frontline 12. 'New Kids on the Block' 13. Capitalism's Gravediggers'

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Book SynopsisThis major new textbook provides a concise introduction to employment and industrial relations. Unlike many other textbooks, this adopts a comparative approach, examining the changing nature of employment practices in relation to the processes of globalization, and engaging critically with the literature on Human Resource Management. By taking account of the international dimension of employment relations, this book is at the forefront of new developments in the field. The thematic approach of Comparative Employment Relations makes it distinctive from the country-by-country studies of this topic. Jack Eaton synthesizes recent work in the field to establish a basis for further study in the most important areas of industrial relations, including Japanese-style employment practices; comparative collective bargaining; the rules of employment and routes to skill formation; collective labour law; globalization and transnational companies. He concludes by examining the prospTrade Review'Jack Eaton's Comparative Employment Relations is one of the few books on the market that actually compares different employment relations systems, rather than simply providing a set of discrete chapters that encourage the reader to make the comparisons ... Such a book can only ever be an introduction, but Eaton has provided a valuable beginning.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Jack Eaton's declared aim for his text is that of "providing food for thought of an analytical kind, especially for the student new to the subject of comparative industrial relations". In this he has succeeded admirably, and not just for the new student; there is plenty here for old hands as well ... An important merit of Eaton's book lies in his preparedness to develop a cohesive argument rather than bringing together what can seem like a random collection of data from different counties.' Industrial Relations Journal "A thought-provoking introduction to worldwide trends and issues in employment relations. It addresses many of the hard questions that students and teachers in this field have to face." Labour & IndustryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Overview - Convergence or Continuing Diversity of Industrial Relations Systems?. 2. From the Fabulous East: the Japanese Origins of Human Resource Management and the Convergence Hypothesis. 3. Japanese-style Employment Practices Outside Japan. 4. Trade Unions - in Need of some International Solidarity. 5. Comparative Collective Bargaining. 6. Training - Comparative Routes to Skill Formation. 7. The Rules Governing Employment: A Comparative View. 8. Comparative Labour Law - Individual Employment Rights. 9. Collective Labour Law. 10. Transnational Companies, Globalization and Industrial Relations. 11. Minimum Standards in International Trade. 12. Participation: Partnership or Teamworking for Productivity. 13. Conclusions and Prospects for Comparative Industrial Relations. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisAn inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.Trade Review"This is an excellently executed study that demonstrates the power of this methodology to reveal deeper meanings behind day-to-day activity. While Addison's main focus is describing the labour regime on the plantation, the fieldwork reveals the critical roles of sexual economy and religion as sites of contestation and cultural expression." Allison Goebel, School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University

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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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