Description
Book SynopsisBudd presents labor relations as a system for balancing employment relationship goals (efficiency, equity, and voice) and the rights of labor and management. By weaving these themes with the importance of alternative perspectives on the nature of employment relationship throughout the text, students can learn not only how the traditional labor relations processes work, but also why these processes exist and how to evaluate whether they are working. In this way, students can develop a deeper understanding of labor relations that will help them successfully navigate a contemporary labor relations system that faces severe pressures requiring new strategies, policies, and practices.
Table of ContentsPART ONEFoundations 1 Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges
2 Labor Unions: Good or Bad?
PART TWOThe U.S. New Deal Industrial Relations System 3 Historical Development
4 Labor Law
5 Labor and Management: Strategies, Structures, and Constraints
6 Union Organizing
7 Bargaining
8 Impasses, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution
9 Contract Clauses and Their Administration
PART THREEIssues for the 21st Century 10 The Evolving Nature of Work
11 Globalization and Financialization
PART FOURReflection 12 Comparative Labor Relations
13 What Should Labor Relations Do?
