Changing Role of Unions - New Forms of Representation

Informationen zum Autor Phanindra V. Wunnava Klappentext With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts and dismantling import barriers, organized labour has been steadily losing ground in the United States. To reverse this trend, this book argues that US unions must create ties with unions in other countries. Zusammenfassung With the trend toward multinational corporations! free trade pacts and dismantling import barriers! organized labour has been steadily losing ground in the United States. To reverse this trend! this book argues that US unions must create ties with unions in other countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Unions and New Constituents; 1: The Road to Union Renaissance in the United States; 2: Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and Beyond; II: Lessons from the Past and New Frontiers in Modeling Unionism; 3: The Two Faces of Unionism; 4: The Experience Good Model of Trade Union Membership; III: Union Wage and Employment Effects U.S. Evidence; 5: Measuring Union and Nonunion Wage Growth; 6: Union-Nonunion Wage Differentials and Macroeconomic Activity; IV: Union Wage and Employment Effects; 7: Collective Bargaining, Relative Wages, and Employment; 8: Trade Unions and International Competition; V: Desire to Unionize and Union Impact on Workplace Practices and Performance; 9: The Desire for Unionization, HRM Practices, and Coworkers; 10: Unions and Establishment Performance; VI: U.S. Union Organizing Any Hope for a Rebound?; 11: Can Increased Organizing Reverse the Decline of Unions in the United States?; 12: What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

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• Authors: Phanindra V. Wunnava, Phanindra V. (Middlebury College Usa) Wunnava
• Publisher: Sharpe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2004
• EAN: 9780765612373
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-1237-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Issues in Work and Human Resou
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, United States of America, USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions