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From:Labor Studies Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedReferences for Michael Eisenscher's article "Leadership Development and Organizing: For What Kind of Union?" were not included in the Summer, 1999 issue. We apologize for any inconvenience. References Bain, George...
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From:Labor Studies Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs the labor movement refocuses its commitment to organizing, it is turning increasingly toward organizing in communities of color. We know from quantitative research that workers of color are more likely to...
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From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 31, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Newspaper Guild union, which represents over 30,000 journalists, is facing difficulties ranging from member apathy to union busting tactics by publishers. The union's membership has been declining lately and has...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 33)More than 80 percent of the nearly 800 graduate students at the University of Missouri at Columbia who participated in balloting last week voted in favor of the Coalition of Graduate Workers' having the right to...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMOST OF THE UNIONS THAT EXIST IN MEXICO'S maquila sector--the duty-free assembly plants that import raw materials and intermediate goods, and then export final products for consumption elsewhere--exist only on paper....
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From:Journal of Labor Research (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction The principal research mission of What Do Unions Do? (hereinafter WDUD) was to persuade economists to adopt a broader perspective on the activities of labor unions. Freeman and Medoff (1984)...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEmployees and unions encounter significant risks during union organizing and often see their efforts thwarted by employers. Labour law regimes attempt to minimize these risks by rendering unlawful a number of unfair...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 61, Issue 17)Byline: Peter Schmidt The National Labor Relations Board has made it easier for faculty members at religious colleges-and private colleges as a whole-to unionize. In a 3-to-2 decision...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe author explains the implications for hotel owners and managers of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act which, if adopted, could alter the balance of labor relations in the hotel industry. ********** If it...
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From:Journal of Labor Research (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction Research on why workers unionize emphasizes unfair treatment and dissatisfaction with terms and conditions of employment (e.g., DeCotiis and LeLouarn, 1981). "The hypothesis that dissatisfied workers...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 31)Byline: Peter Schmidt Boston -- It's the lull between Northeastern University's afternoon and evening classes, and adjunct instructors drift in and out of a windowless room set aside for them in Ryder Hall. Lacking...
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From:Labor Studies Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the efforts of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to organize the workers of the NCR Corporation after it had been acquired by AT&T. It documents extreme "union busting" measures by the...
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From:The Midwest QuarterlyPeer-Reviewed
The E. Haldeman-Julius Story in the Context of Owenism and Fordism: An Exploration of Social Control
"It is the fate of many abstract words to be used in two senses, one good and the other bad" (Sinclair, Profits 17). Socialism is one of those words. It can have such diverse meanings as confiscating all private... -
From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 129, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1991, Monthly Labor Review published an overview of union membership statistics in 12 countries, presenting broad trends in unionization from 1955 to 1990 and raising various critical issues concerning the...
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From:Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the 21st century the introduction of digital technologies has been accompanied by a rise in precarious, cheap and vulnerable work. Call centres represent a part of the service sector that exemplifies many aspects of...
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From:ILR Review (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJOHN DINARDO and KEVIN F. HALLOCK (*) Given our focus on strikes, our paper is directly related to two literatures. In one (see Neumann and Reder 1984), the effect of strikes on industry-wide output is measured using...
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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 58) Peer-ReviewedAT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II labour unrest, Montreal tramway workers, the majority of whom were French Canadian, struck over recognition of their Canadian Congress of Labour-affiliated union over two entrenched rival...
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From:Metro Magazine (Issue 199) Peer-ReviewedFor an open-world, blockbuster videogame, Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) is a funny beast. The genre it falls under is usually defined by freedom and power fantasy--a 'go anywhere, do anything', frictionless kind of game....
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From:Kennedy School Review (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedWilma spent years working as a housekeeper and child care provider for a family in Manhattan. Her job started at 5:45 a.m., seven days a week. Wilma, who was born in the Philippines, often worked more than one-hundred...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 48, Issue 45)Byline: SCOTT SMALLWOOD The United Automobile Workers won the right last week to represent more than 4,000 part-time faculty members at New York University, creating one of the largest adjunct-only unions in the...