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Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism
New Directions in Research
Häftad, 2011
423 kr
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One of the most persistent and important, but often ignored, trends contemporary market economies continues to be the ownership of firms by their employees. Since the emergence of different experiments with employee ownership in the early twentieth century, a growing group of companies and …
Public Jobs and Political Agendas
The Public Sector in an Era of Economic Stress
Häftad, 2012
337 kr
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In many ways the public sector and the private sector share concerns about how best to manage their employment functions: recruitment, evaluation, incentives, discipline, retention, compensation. There are also substantial differences between the two sectors. Not surprisingly, a period such as the …
Disunited States of America
Employment Relations Systems in Conflict
Häftad, 2015
357 kr
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As a result of its size, history, immigration flows, and institutional complexity at the city, county, state, and national levels, the United States is characterized by disparate yet coexisting systems of political economy and labor policy. Some of the northeastern, midwestern, and western states …
Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity
The Varied and Growing Role of Finance in Labor Relations
Häftad, 2015
327 kr
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Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity provides readers with a sense of the many ways in which financial market developments influence labor and industrial relations.
Evolving Healthcare Landscape
How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions Are Adapting and Innovating
Av Ariel C. Avgar, Timothy J. Vogus
Häftad, 2016
395 kr
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Across the globe healthcare systems face the extremely complex and difficult challenge of reducing the cost of care while simultaneously increasing access and improving quality. As a result, healthcare organizations have been experimenting with a variety of different innovations designed to address …
No One Size Fits All
Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age
Av Janice Fine, Linda Burnham m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
355 kr
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Workers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in politics, which has, for many years, effectively blocked the updating of antiquated laws governing labor relations. Instead, unions have been subjected to a …
Employment and Disability
Issues, Innovations, and Opportunities
Häftad, 2019
411 kr
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Nearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities continue to be significantly underrepresented in the American Labor force. This loss of talent to U.S. organizations and restriction of opportunities for millions of workers have broader …
Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment
Häftad, 2020
423 kr
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Are unions still relevant in digitized workplaces? Could basic income be the solution to both poverty and technology-driven job loss? What are the benefits and drawbacks of a guaranteed jobs policy? Are multinational firms better regulators of global work than States? What are the tensions between …
Revaluing Work(ers)
Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future
Av Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Todd E. Vachon
Häftad, 2021
662 kr
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How can we build a future of work that meets pressing challenges and delivers for workers? Contemporary societies are beset by interrelated ecological, political, and economic crises, from climate change to democratic erosion and economic instability. Uncertainty abounds about the sustainability of …
Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations
Storytelling As Revolution from Within
Av Tamara L. Lee, Sheri Davis-Faulkner m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
662 kr
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Traditional industrial relations theories of organizing, employment relations, and economic democracy are cloaked in the language of color-blindness, with conceptualizations of justice and class identity viewed through the lens of dominant social identity groups. This has led to theoretical …
Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining at a Critical Moment
Opportunities for Renewal or Continued Decline?
Av Howard R. Stanger, Paul F. Clark m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
714 kr
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Since the 1950s, union membership and collective bargaining in the United States have declined. Union density, the percentage of the workforce belonging to unions, peaked at 34.8% in 1954 and fell steadily thereafter. The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics' report on union membership indicated …
Climate-Labor Movement
Lessons Learned and the Promise of an Equitable and Diverse Clean Energy Economy
Av Richard A. Benton, Lara Skinner
Häftad, 2025
439 kr
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Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. It poses an existential threat to humanity and the planet, as well as a profound social and economic crisis for millions of workers and communities. To address this challenge, we need a radical transformation of our energy system, our …
Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship
Häftad, 1998
431 kr
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Ever since the emergence of industrial relations as a field in the late 1920s, three different approaches to labor problems have been focal points for research and debate, according to Bruce E. Kaufman. What he refers to as "employers" solutions involve personnel management; workers rely on …
New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace
Av Terry Thomason, John F. Burton m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
425 kr
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This volume examines questions related to the prevention, compensation, and accommodation of work disabilities. It focuses on disabilities arising out of workplace activity.
Nonstandard Work
The Nature and Challenges of Emerging Employment Arrangements
Av Françoise Carré, Marianne A. Ferber m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
495 kr
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In recent years, much attention has focused on the growth of nonstandard and contingent employment (including part-time work) which involves up to 30 percent of the total U.S. labor force. There is little agreement on either the causes or the effects of this trend. Some researchers emphasize the …
Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector
Av Paul F. Clark, John T. Delaney m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
340 kr
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Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes. This volume examines collective …
Going Public
The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services
Av Jonathan Brock, David B. Lipsky
Häftad, 2003
321 kr
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The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of …
Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship
Häftad, 2004
337 kr
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Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has to date remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This pioneering volume helps close the theory gap by presenting contributions from fifteen leading scholars that develop and …
Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Av John W. Budd, James G. Scoville
Häftad, 2005
340 kr
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"In the business and economic spheres, many of the most pressing ethical issues involve the employment relationship, such as the rights of employees versus shareholders, employee privacy and monitoring, whistleblowing, pay equity, discrimination, employee safety, anti-union campaigns, and minimum …
Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations
International and Domestic Perspectives
Av James A. Gross, Lance Compa
Häftad, 2009
327 kr
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The concept of human rights at work has advanced significantly in the last decade. The authors of the essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations focus in various ways on how the promotion and protection of human rights at workplaces here and around the world posit a new set of values …
Transforming the U.S. Workforce Development System
Lessons from Research and Practice
Av David Finegold, Mary Gatta m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
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What jobs will Americans hold in the global economy of the twenty-first century and how will they develop the skills they need to compete for these positions? Over the past two decades the emergence and tremendous growth of the Internet has enabled more than a billion new individuals to participate …
Collective Bargaining Under Duress
Case Studies of Major North American Industries
Av Howard R. Stanger, Paul F. Clark m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
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The Great Recession that began in 2007 was marked by high rates of unemployment, the near collapse of the banking sector, and the bankruptcy of a host of venerable firms. The economy has only slowly recovered over the intervening years. Throughout this time, the labor movement has faced numerous …
Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism
Av Kevin Skerrett, Johanna Weststar m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
341 kr
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It is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets. At the core of this book is a desire to …
Evolution of Workplace Dispute Resolution
International Perspectives
Av Ariel C. Avgar, Deborah Hann m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
405 kr
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This volume focuses on the intersections between institutions and actors in shaping innovative workplace conflict management practices, featuring scholarship centered on various countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The intention …
Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources
Av David Lewin, Olivia S. Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
438 kr
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Assessing scholarly work done in the 1980s, the editors discuss four major areas of research: unions, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution; human resource management; labor market research; and the regulation of industrial relations and human resources.
Employee Representation
Alternatives and Future Directions
Av Bruce E. Kaufman, Morris M. Kleiner
Häftad, 1993
553 kr
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Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations
Av Kirsten S. Wever, Lowell Turner
Häftad, 1996
395 kr
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The distinguished contributors to this volume discuss the global marketplace; labor movements and industrial restructuring; international trends in work organization in the auto industry; linkages between economic development strategies, industrial relations policy and other related topics.
Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition
Av Dale Belman, Morley Gunderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
438 kr
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The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume analyzes elements in what is variously described as reinventing government, re-engineering the public sector, …
Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace
Av Adrienne E. Eaton, Jeffrey H. Keefe
Häftad, 2000
341 kr
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Have the speed, informality, and low cost of the grievance and arbitration system deteriorated? Has the system become too adversarial? Has it lost its problem-solving character? This book examines the nature and degree of change in workplace dispute resolution in the context of ongoing changes in …
