"The authors chart the experience of start-up factories in adopting high performance management practices and provide insights into how US manufacturing can improve labor productivity and job quality in the coming years. Based on an extensive study of 48 new branch plants-that began operating between 1978 and 1990, this book explains how best practice manufacturing companies are raising productivity and lowering unit costs by introducing ..."
"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 ..."
"This is a book about the fishing industry in New England―its structure, its work, and the way it adjusts to change. It documents the recent economic experience of one of America's oldest industries, on that has recently been at the center of well-publicized boundary and trade disputes. The study blends customary sources of economic data with field interviews, original survey material, and analyses of economic institutions to provide a t ..."
Bridges to Retirement Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market (ILR Press Books) by PeterB. Doeringer Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1990 by Ilr Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87546-160-1, ISBN: 0-87546-160-3
"It presents the older worker's perspective on the labor market, examines the ways
nonbureaucratic firms are attracting older workers, and explores alternatives
companies and unions can develop to accommodate this rapidly growing
segment of the population. The contributors — Eileen Appelbaum, Richard S.
Belous, Kathleen Christensen, Peter B. Doeringer, W. Neal Fogg, Judith Gregory,
Andrew M. Sum, Christopher J. Ruhm, and David Terkl ..."
Troubled Waters Economic Structure, Regulatory Reform, and Fisheries Trade by PeterB. Doeringer, David G. Terkla Hardcover, 206 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-0683-7, ISBN: 0-8020-0683-3
Troubled Waters Economic Structure, Regulatory Reform, and Fisheries Trade by PeterB. Doeringer, David G. Terkla Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-7639-7, ISBN: 0-8020-7639-4
"(See Bertram and Maisel, op. cit., p. 47). 26 A study of building trades workers in
the Boston labor market indicated that one third of the construction craftsmen
utilized union referral systems in the process of obtaining employment, one third
had ..."
"Lloyd Fisher has described this labor market as "particularly well suited to
accommodate and usefully employ labor of almost any description. The market is
without any structure of job rights or preference." Lloyd Fisher, The Harvest Labor
Market in California (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 7. 2
See Clark Kerr, "The Balkanization of Labor Markets," in E. Wight Bakke, et al.,
Labor Mobility and Economic Oppor ..."
"... and products requiring good quality service after they have been sold are
among the factors that led Xerox to design ... Its training might be heavily on the
job and made available primarily in relation to how long an employee has been
with ..."
"Margaret S. Gordon, ed., Higher Education and the Labor Market (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1974); Office of Education, What Is ... and Use (Raleigh: Raleigh
Center for Occupational Education, North Carolina State University, 1975); Office
of Education, ... Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, “Job-
Seeking Methods Used by American Workers,” cited in ... Milton E. Larsen,
Review and Synthesis: Analysis for Curriculum Dev ..."
"Peter B. Doeringer Many of our approaches to education and training date back to the nine teenth and early twentieth centuries. Since that time, the skills and abilities demanded by the economy have undergone far greater change than have our training arrangements. Moreover, our ambitions for what can be ac complished through education and training policy have also increased. Not only do we expect that such ..."