Fighting For Jobs(Updated) Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings (SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations) by BruceNissen Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1995 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-2568-8, ISBN: 0-7914-2568-1
"Examines the struggle of the unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s, and shows why some labor-community coalitions were more successful than others.This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. The unusual depth of the research allows the reader to grasp the key factors affecting such battles in an era of industrial restructuring. It ..."
Grand Designs(1st Edition) The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities (ILR Press Books) by Charles Craypo, BruceNissen Hardcover, 285 Pages, Published 1993 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87546-309-4, ISBN: 0-87546-309-6
"From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, plant closings, bitter labor disputes, and manufacturing relocations profoundly and often disastrously influenced the lives of individuals, organizations, and municipalities in the Midwest. This volume tells the stories implicit in that process.Beyond documenting the damage that has been done, Grand Designs articulates the conditions under which local labor-community coalitions can win import ..."
Grand Designs The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities (ILR Press Books) by Charles Craypo, BruceNissen Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 1993 by Ilr Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87546-310-0, ISBN: 0-87546-310-X
"From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, plant closings, bitter labor disputes, and manufacturing relocations profoundly and often disastrously influenced the lives of individuals, organizations, and municipalities in the Midwest. This volume tells the stories implicit in that process.Beyond documenting the damage that has been done, Grand Designs articulates the conditions under which local labor-community coalitions can win import ..."
"Unions and Workplace Reorganization critically reviews trends in workplace reorganization and develops perspectives on how unions should respond to these trends. Wide in scope, the eleven essays in this collection evaluate and react to the AFL-CIO's 1994 policy statement "The New American Workplace: A Labor Perspective," which is included as a chapter in this volume and is treated as the official position of the U.S. labor movement. Pre ..."
"Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Simons, and John Kenneth Galbraith, among others. Intending this as a text for classroom use, Larson and Nissen have arrange ..."
"Unions and Workplace Reorganization critically reviews trends in workplace reorganization and develops perspectives on how unions should respond to these trends. Wide in scope, the eleven essays in this collection evaluate and react to the AFL-CIO's 1994 policy statement "The New American Workplace: A Labor Perspective," which is included as a chapter in this volume and is treated as the official position of the U.S. labor movement. Pre ..."
Unions in a Globalized Environment(1st Edition) Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles by BruceNissen Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-0870-3, ISBN: 0-7656-0870-7
"How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts, and dismantling import barriers, organized labor has been steadily losing ground in the United States. This book argues that to reverse this trend, U.S. unions must create ties with workers and unions in other countries, and include the ever-increasing number of immigrant workers in the ..."
"Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Simons, and John Kenneth Galbraith, among others.Intending this as a text for classroom use, Larson and Nissen have arranged ..."
"With the decline of the labor movement in the United States over the past four decades, unions are facing the future with unresolved concerns over free trade agreements, dwindling memberships, and their own leverage with industry and government. Which Direction for Organized Labor? addresses critical questions facing the U.S. labor movements as it approaches the twenty-first century. It analyzes the overall state of organized labor and ..."
Fighting for Jobs Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings (S U N Y SERIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS) by BruceNissen Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 1995 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-2567-1, ISBN: 0-7914-2567-3
"Donald Lyons, president of the East Chicago plant's corporate division, told the
local press: We need to convince employees that their contribution makes a
difference. . . . American companies have a tendency not to share information to
show ..."
Unions in a Globalized Environment Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles : Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles by Editor-BruceNissen Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-0869-7, ISBN: 0-7656-0869-3
Fighting For Jobs Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings by BruceNissen 215 Pages, Published by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-1476-8, ISBN: 1-4384-1476-5
"25 November 1990 letter from Larry Sutton, Daniel Colon, and Larry Partain to
Carl E. Pfeiffer. (Copy in the author's possession.) 18. 3 December 1990 letter
from Carl E. Pfeiffer to Larry Sutton, Daniel Colon, and Larry Partain. (Copy in the
..."
Grand Designs The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities by Charles Craypo, BruceNissen 296 Pages, Published 2019 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3386-4, ISBN: 1-5017-3386-9
"In addition, Alderman Santiago identified more than $200,000 in interest benefits
that had accrued to Milton Bradley by 1984 as a result of the IRB's tax-exempt
status (Chicago Department of Economic Development, Playskool Briefing memo
, ..."
Unions in a Globalized Environment Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles : Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries and Social Roles by BruceNissen 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-315-29099-7, ISBN: 1-315-29099-5
"(García interview) Angel Domínguez, a talented organizer who later became the
union's organizing director, was very critical of the union at the local level in a
year 2000 interview: They [union regional council leadership at the time] are lost.
They don't know what they are doing. They don't understand the people we need
to organize and want to keep doing the same thing that hasn't worked for years. (
Domínguez interview) Domínguez ..."
Fighting for Jobs Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings by BruceNissen Published 1995 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-04591-7, ISBN: 0-585-04591-7
U.S. Labor Relations 1945-1989 Accommodation and Conflict (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Editor-BruceNissen Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 1990 by Taylor & Francis ISBN-13: 978-0-8240-7141-7, ISBN: 0-8240-7141-7