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Book Review: Steelworkers Rank and File
(1984-06-01)[Excerpt] Phil Nyden has established a reputation as a scholar with a deep personal commitment to the prospects of a genuine, grass-roots-based militant unionism. With a sensitivity too rare among outside observers, Nyden ... -
Book Review: Concessions - and how to beat them
(1984-06-01)[Excerpt] As the title of her book indicates, Jane Slaughter is not afraid to be didactic. This valuable handbook, written for secondary leaders and rank-and-file activists, not only provides a history and sum-up of the ... -
Review of the Book 'Wage Indexation in the United States: Cola or Uncola?'
(1986-01-01)[Excerpt] Hendricks and Kahn's book is a major contribution to the literature on wage indexation. The authors, together with a team of graduate assistants, have painstakingly put together a data file from Bureau of Labor ... -
Review of the Book 'Unemployment Insurance: The Second Half-Century'
(1991-04-01)[Excerpt] This extraordinary volume is one that all people interested in the unemployment insurance (Ul) system will want to read. Although research on a wide variety of aspects of the Ul system has been published in many ... -
Review of the Book 'The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence'
(1987-01-01)[Excerpt] This book surveys, synthesizes, and critically analyzes the rapidly growing theoretical and empirical literature on unions and dispute resolution. The focus is primarily on the United States literature, although ... -
Review of the Book 'The Davis-Bacon Act'
(1976-07-01)[Excerpt] Armand J. Thieblot's monograph is not the first study of the administration and impact of the Davis-Bacon Act; however, it certainly is the most comprehensive. Successive chapters of the book consider the history ... -
Review of the Book 'The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals are Paid and How it Affects America'
(1995-03-01)[Excerpt] Why should the former President of Harvard University be concerned that during the 1970s and 1980s the earnings of doctors, lawyers in private practice, and top corporate executives grew substantially relative ... -
Review of the book 'The Chinese Worker After Socialism'
(2010-09-01)In The Chinese Worker after Socialism, William Hurst employs subnational comparison to explain different outcomes for workers in the process of reform of state-owned industry in China. In particular, Hurst provides in-depth ... -
Review of the Book 'Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education'
(2004-06-01)[Excerpt] Befitting a former journalist, Kirp's book is extraordinarily well-written; once one picks it up it is hard to put down. Some economists may be put off by a book that contains no equations, tables, figures or ... -
Review of the Book 'Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences'
(1990-06-01)[Excerpt] Very few books by economists are announced to the world in a front page story in the New York Times. However, Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences by William G. Bowen and Julie Ann Sosa was (see Fiske) ...
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