Three Essays on Union Wage Determination
Author : Robert John Lemke
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Robert John Lemke
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1985-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465091324
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.
Author : Clark Kerr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520323300
Author : Jake Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674726219
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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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Civil service
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Author : Orley Ashenfelter
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Economics
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This is the first of 3 volumes containing the published and unpublished economic papers of Orley Ashenfelter, complete with a chronological list of all his work, and features his reflections on the development of economics in his career.
Author : Robert Franklin Hoxie
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Labor unions
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Author : David Weil
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 067472612X
In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety protections, and ever-widening income inequality. From the perspectives of CEOs and investors, fissuring--splitting off functions that were once managed internally--has been phenomenally successful. Despite giving up direct control to subcontractors and franchises, these large companies have figured out how to maintain the quality of brand-name products and services, without the cost of maintaining an expensive workforce. But from the perspective of workers, this strategy has meant stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this business strategy.
Author : Orley Ashenfelter
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
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Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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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.