Download or read book Labor Union Theories in America written by Mark Perlman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-09-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five basic theories of unionism are examined: Protestant Christian Socialist and Roman Catholic Christian social movements, the Marxian socialist movements, the environmental psychology discipline, and the jurisprudential history discipline.

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States written by John Rogers Commons and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1918-12 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who Rules America Now written by G. William Domhoff and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.

Download or read book Labor Union Theories in America Background and Developement written by Mark Perlman and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States Introduction written by John Rogers Commons and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Theory of the Labor Movement written by Selig Perlman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States written by John R. Commons and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Labor in the United States written by John R. Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Labour in the United States written by John R. Commons and published by Augustus M Kelley Publishers. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theories of Trade Unionism written by Renaud Paquet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article begins with an overview of the foremost texts dealing with the main theories of trade unionism, based upon a review of the Anglo-Saxon literature on the subject. Secondly, the authors discuss the relevance of these various theoretical contributions to an understanding of labour in its present form. The authors conclude that the theory of business unionism, as developed by Commons and Perlman, has indeed passed the test of time, with the nuance that this form of trade unionism today involves a social activist dimension, which goes beyond the workplace narrowly defined, even though the joint regulation of working conditions via collective bargaining remains at the heart of trade union activity. A review of Anglo-Saxon scientific literature (Poole, 1981; Perlman, 1958; Hyman, 1989; Larson and Nissen, 1987) enables us to distinguish two very distinct periods within the theoretical work examining trade unionism. The first period extends from the end of the 19th century up to 1930s. Development of the theoretical corpus and the overwhelming majority of theories of trade unionism date from this period. Since then, with few exceptions, analyses and theories have tended to study labour relations in a broader analytical framework, and have not tackled trade unionism, as such, as their core theme of investigation. Poole (1981) attributes this change in direction to Dunlop's introduction of the systemic approach to industrial relations. Indeed, Dunlop (1958) makes his contribution at a time when empiricism was the dominant intellectual force in the academic community. In this connection, his model provided numerous possibilities and all the more so, since at first glance, it appeared to be ideologically and politically “neutral”. The absence of major theoretical developments during the second half of the twentieth century is also due to the institutionalization of collective bargaining relationships in North America. The US Wagner Act and its Canadian counterparts would come to settle the questions regarding the status, the role, the function and the goals of trade unionism. From this point on, the challenges and issues characterizing trade unionism become more focused upon the workplace and finally culminate in the decentralized negotiation of better working conditions for employees within the confines of business unionism. Our presentation of the various theoretical contributions draws upon the typology initially developed by Perlman (1958) and basically reworked by Poole (1981) and Larsen and Nissen (1987). The authors have classified all the theories into five currents that primarily differ according to the social and economic functions each posits for trade unionism. An ideology or vision vis-à-vis the structures of capitalist society is thus either implicitly or explicitly present in each one of these five theoretical groupings. Even though Marx formulated a theory on the history of capitalist development and not on trade unionism as such, the fact remains that each theoretical grouping is influenced by his writings, either by fully or partially incorporating Marx's political thinking, or else by being explicitly designed to dismiss it. Accordingly, the Catholic approach, Commons' American school and Veblen's psychological paradigm hypothesize that workers accept capitalism's form of production and power arrangements and that workers form unions in order to counteract the perverse effects of the latter or to gain a greater share of the surplus value. In the opposite corner, where trade unionism is seen as a social movement, it draws upon Marx's thinking to ascertain a conflict and a struggle between two classes, each having primarily antagonistic interests, who interact under the capitalist system. This notion, pushed to an extreme, culminates in the revolutionary school, which associates the trade union movement with class struggle. Finally, Webb's welfarism anticipates the non-violent step-by-step emergence of a social democracy, where the State ensures that a certain degree of equity is reached between classes. The writings of the second theoretical wave focus more upon the effects of trade unionism or upon its interactions with capital. The socio-political context of the period after the Great Depression, followed by the Second World War and finally the “glorious 30 years” will push researchers away from the Marxist-capitalist dialectic, which had characterized the first wave. From that point onwards, theorists will favour a functional analysis within the established system, without in any way neglecting its ideological bases. There will hence be discussions inspired by unitaristic, pluralistic and radical approaches, where the subject matter will be respectively the effect of lobbies, the actor's role in the production of work rules and collective bargaining or then again, the articulation of industrial conflict. The authors' discussion attempts to position contemporary trade unionism vis-à-vis the theories that have been identified. The empirical observation of Canadian and Quebec trade union organizations leads us to believe that generally speaking, there exists today only one form of trade unionism, to which one might append some subtypes depending upon the presence or absence of social activism. Overall, Quebec and Canadian trade unionism is of a social-democratic or pluralistic nature. Indeed, it acknowledges the divergence between the interests of its members and those of their employers. It accepts this divergence and undertakes to make improvements to the workplace and to society at large, by means of collective bargaining, social policy demands and political action. Its political involvement will be directly related to the precedence it gives to representing the social interests of its members. Canadian and Quebec trade unionism is fundamentally guided by a collective bargaining approach that is simultaneously concerned with the injustices in the society that surrounds it. This type of trade unionism does take on different forms that are related to the emphasis placed upon community issues and challenges, in other words, to its degree of social activism. For example, some unions favour a more cooperative approach with their employers and will limit their social action to professional matters. On the other side of the coin, there are the unions affiliated with the central labour bodies such as the CSN, the QFL or CLC and the CSQ who become involved in the overwhelming majority of the social issues of the day, such as the nationalist issue, social housing, unemployment, access to daycare or political democracy. Finally, even within the same central labour body, distinctions must be made. For example, the Teamsters and CUPE do not necessarily practise the same kind of trade unionism. However, there's no doubt in our minds that regardless of the union, its foremost activity is collective bargaining and all its closely related pursuits. The balance is secondary to this principal activity of negotiating and enforcing collective agreements. Marx's scenario has not materialized and capitalism's hegemony can no longer be called into question. But the actualization of Simons or Friedman's theses is certainly not right around the corner either, at least not in our little corner of America.

Download or read book Labor and the New Deal written by Louis Stark and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of Trade Unions written by Hristos Doucouliagos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labor markets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulations and labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers. The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists and other social scientists have long debated. Do the benefits of unionism exceed the costs to the economy and society writ large, or do the costs exceed the benefits? The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions using the tools of meta-regression analysis to identify and quantify the economic impact of trade unions, as well as to correct research design faults, the effects of selection bias and model misspecification. This volume makes use of a unique dataset of hundreds of empirical studies and their reported estimates of the microeconomic impact of trade unions. Written by three authors who have been at the forefront of this research field (including the co-author of the original volume, What Do Unions Do?), this book offers an overview of a subject that is of huge importance to scholars of labor economics, industrial and employee relations, and human resource management, as well as those with an interest in meta-analysis.

Download or read book What Do Unions Do written by Richard B. Freeman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the impact of trade unions on working conditions and labour relations in the USA - based on a comparison of unionized workers and nonunionized workers, examines wage determination, fringe benefits, wage differentials, employment security, labour productivity, etc.; discusses trade union power and incidence of corruption among trade union officers; notes declining rate of trade unionization in the private sector. Graphs and references.

Download or read book What Unions No Longer Do written by Jake Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. What Unions No Longer Do details the consequences of labor's decline, including poorer working conditions, less economic assimilation for immigrants, and wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, resulting in a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.

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