An introduction to industrial relations and employment relationships which transcends specific national contexts. Throughout, issues of industrial relations are seen within a broad framework of the relationship between governments, markets and organizations. Among the issues explored are: the range of theoretical approaches to analyzing industrial and employment relations; the place of interest groups and organized interests, including both employers' organizations and trade unions, in the industrial relations system; the changing role of governments in industrial relations and the differing position of governments in individual nations; and the process of bargaining, the differences between collective regulation and other forms of management in workplace relations and the growth of the flexibility. Contributors indicate where national systems of industrial and employment relations differ, and where they share common ground. Three key elements, time organization, wages and skills are shown at work in the automobile industry, banking and the retail sector as illustrations of changes over time.
Discusses the elements that give extraordinary women the edge over their competition. This book addresses factors such as psychosexual desire, the tendency to take abnormal risks, a visionary perspective, a dream-like but unshakable belief system, an intuitive operating style, and boundless energy.
Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
''Solidarity and Fragmentation should be required reading for anyone involved in the current labor movement -- indeed, for anyone interested in the prospects for radical change in America. . . . It is radical history at its best, speaking directly to the descendants of radicals and social visionaries about the lessons of their past.'' -- Monthly ......
Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. This title presents a study of Chinese laundries and of those who worked in them in the United States. It looks at the life and work of Chinese hand laundry workers in Chicago.
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor --- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century --- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions.''The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working ......
A Study of Racial Policies in the Electric Power, Gas, and Telephone Industries
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
What keeps people in jobs or occupations is the central theme of four studies that interpret workers' attitudes toward job-changing in the light of their work experience as well as their expectations for the future. Gladys Palmer, in collaboration with Herbert S. Parnes of Ohio State University and Richard C. Wilcock of the University of ......
