Bootstrap Dreams

Nancy Jurik

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity... Lees meer

Bootstrap Dreams

Nancy Jurik

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity... Lees meer

Public Workers

Joseph E Slater

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and gov... Lees meer

When Doctors Join Unions

Grace Budrys

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• Current and anticipated changes in this country's health care system are likely to add momentum to the physicians' union movement, according to Grace ... Lees meer

New Rules for a New Economy

Stephen a Herzenberg, John A Alic, Howard Wial

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• Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do a... Lees meer

Steelworker Alley

Robert Bruno

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that laborers in postwar Am... Lees meer

Kremlin Capitalism

Joseph R Blasi, Maya Kroumova, Douglas Kruse

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• The first book to describe Russia's massive economic transformation for an American audience, Kremlin Capitalism provides a wealth of data and analyse... Lees meer

Ravenswood

Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner

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• Over the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced, sped up, and, all too often, elimin... Lees meer

Ravenswood

Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Over the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced, sped up, and, all too often, elimin... Lees meer

Changing by Design

Deone Zell

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• How do corporations achieve change? In the first analytic book about Hewlett-Packard, Deone Zell also offers an ethnography of corporate redesign, doc... Lees meer

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

Tom Zaniello

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new ... Lees meer

Amakudari

Richard A Colignon, Chikako Usui

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• The widespread migration of civil servants to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors is known in Japan as amakudari, or "descent fro... Lees meer

Values at Work

George Cheney

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• Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges ... Lees meer

Values at Work

George Cheney

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges ... Lees meer

Being Local Worldwide

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Fortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch link... Lees meer

Framed!

Christopher R Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Christopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put the labor movement in a bad light even while ... Lees meer

Third-Sector Development

Christopher Gunn

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in... Lees meer

New Working-Class Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• "We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or abo... Lees meer

A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations

Richard E Walton, Robert B McKersie

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• In this book, Walton and McKersie attempt to describe a comprehensive theory of labor negotiation. The authors abstract and analyze four sets of syste... Lees meer

Promise Unfulfilled

Philip L Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pi... Lees meer

The Betrayal of Local 14

Julius G Getman

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• International Paper, the richest paper company and largest landowner in the United States, enjoyed record profits and gave large bonuses to executives... Lees meer

Steelworker Alley

Robert Bruno

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that laborers in postwar Am... Lees meer

Beyond the Ruins

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• The immediate impact of deindustrialization--the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities--has been widely reported by ... Lees meer

We'll Call You If We Need You

Susan Eisenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• "For my very first day in union construction I was sent to a bank in downtown Boston where a journeyman needed a hand pulling wire. Arriving early wit... Lees meer