"This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic choice framework unifies the text, and the authors’ thorough grounding in labor history and labor law assists students in learning the bas ..."
"From gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to apparent prominence through the efforts of a new generation of energetic and progressive leaders. A distinguished group of authors examines this resurgence and the potential of American unions with sympathetic yet critical eyes. Experts from a wide variety of disciplines―industrial relations, political science, economics, and sociology―identify the central devel ..."
"Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its conseque ..."
"Excerpt from Personnel Planning in the U. S. Auto Industry: April 1983 Introduction This report analyzes how personnel planning, training, and adjustment occurs for blue collar workers within the U.S. auto industry. In general terms, the U.S. personnel system is heavily based on contractual agreements with the United Auto Workers (UAW). Cyclical flux in the sale and production of motor vehicles leads to overtime and layoff manpower adju ..."
"This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic choice framework unifies the text, and the authors' thorough grounding in labor history and labor law assists students in learning the bas ..."
Cost Engineering(1st Edition) Computerized Management of Multiple Small Projects : Planning, Task and Resource Scheduling, Estimating, Design Optimization and Project Control Vol. 17 by Richard E. Westney, HarryC. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan Hardcover, 357 Pages, Published 1992 by Crc ISBN-13: 978-0-8247-8645-8, ISBN: 0-8247-8645-9
"Planning, Task and Resource Scheduling, Estimating, Design Optimization, and
Project Control Richard E. Westney ... The cost estimate for a project serves two
important functions: It is the basis on which the economics of the project are ..."
"This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company, as well as Community, lev ..."
Telecommunications(1st Edition) Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports) by Harry Charles Katz Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1996 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8361-5, ISBN: 0-8014-8361-1
"We also have benefited from the research, insights, and comments of Michael Piore and Henry Farber of the MIT Economics Department, Charles Sabel of the MIT Political Science Department, and Richard Walton and E. Robert Livernash of the ..."
"... Stephen Gourlay . 1992 : " Enterprise without Unions : The Management of Employee Relations in Non - Union Firms . " Journal of Manage- ment Studies 29 ( September ) : 669–91 . Mealor , Tony . 1996. “ From Confrontation to Collaboration ..."
"Paul Johnston is a sociologist and author of Success While Others Fail: Social
Movement Unionism and the Public ... Tom Juravich is professor and director of
the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts—
Amherst. ... is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Workers View of Quality
Productivity and Management, Commonwealth of Toil; ... His latest book is
Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Em ..."
"Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, 8th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1920),
383–386. 3. Others have pointed out that for a low labor cost ratio to act as a
source of power, as Marshall hypothesized, the elasticity of demand for the final
product must be greater than the elasticity of substitution of nonlabor inputs in the
production process. See Richard B. Freeman, Labor Economics, 2nd ed. (
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, ..."