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Blueprint for Change: A National Assessment of Winning Union Organizing Strategies
(2003-01-01)In the last seven years the AFL-CIO has put forth an immense effort to facilitate, support, and encourage organizing initiatives by all affiliates. Although to date progress has been much slower than the leadership of the ... -
Book Review: L’organisation international du travail et le BIT
(University of Illinois College of Law, 2022)[Excerpt] The re-issuance of Georges Scelle’s seminal L’organisation international du travail et le BIT (The International Labor Organization and the International Labor Office) nearly a century after its initial publication ... -
Bottom-Up Organizing: HERE in New Haven & Boston
(1986-04-01)[Excerpt] HERE is a union in the process of change. After decades of cooperative relations with management, the union's national leaders were rudely awakened when the major hotel chains jumped on the union-busting bandwagon ... -
Boundaryless Organizations and Boundaryless Careers: A New Market for High-Skilled Temporary Work
(1998-02-01)A typology of four different groups of temporary workers (transitional, traditional, career, boundaryless) is derived from economic, strategic, and human resource theories. Based on a survey of 276 temporary workers, we ... -
Breaking Ranks: On Military Spending, Unions Hear a Different Drummer
(1982-01-01)[Excerpt] What remains to be seen is whether the labor movement's study of military spending will uncover the unions' material self-interest in reducing it, and in conveying that interest to the membership. For besides its ... -
Bringing Emotions into Social Exchange Theory
(1999-01-01)We analyze and review how research on emotion and emotional phenomena can elaborate and improve contemporary social exchange theory. After identifying six approaches from the psychology and sociology of emotion, we illustrate ... -
Bringing Together Policymakers, Researchers, and Practitioners to Discuss Job Loss
(2005-05-01)[Excerpt] On November 18–19, 2004, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Joyce Foundation cosponsored a conference at the Chicago Fed, “Job Loss: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses,” to bring together ... -
Bringing Unions Back In: Labour and Left Governments in Latin America
(2013-04-01)In the 2000s an unprecedented wave of left-party victories in presidential elections swept across Latin America. Although scholars have studied variation among left regimes and how these regimes differ from neoliberal-era ... -
Brokered Pathways to Justice and Cracks in the Law: A Closer Look at the Claims-Making Experiences of Low-Wage Workers
(2015-01-01)This article examines the factors that shape low-wage workers’ decision to mobilize their legal rights following a workplace violation. I discuss the diverse mechanisms of employer retaliation, including the role of employer ... -
Brokering Immigrant Worker Rights: An Examination of Local Immigration Control, Administrative Capacity and Civil Society
(2015-01-01)We know a great deal about the clash between federal immigration and labour standards enforcement directives, but less regarding how these two processes are functioning at the local level and the role that demographic ... -
Building A PC-Based Human Resource Management Curriculum at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
(1990-01-01)In September, 1984, the Department of Personnel and Human Resource Studies at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University entered into the first three-year Joint Project with IBM corporation to bring ... -
Building and Rebuilding Trust: Why Perspective Taking Matters
(2012-01-01)[Excerpt] There is growing interest surrounding the function of perspective taking in social interactions and organizational life. In this chapter, I examine the role of perspective taking in trust building and trust repair. ... -
Building Social Movement Unionism: The Transformation of the American Labor Movement
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] In the United States, the renewed energy displayed by the labor movement is particularly promising. From organizing drives to strike victories to legislative campaigns, labor's renewed influence in the American ... -
Building the Infrastructure: The Effects of Role Identification Behaviors on Team Cognition Development and Performance
(2010-01-01)The primary purpose of this study was to extend theory and research regarding the emergence of mental models and transactive memory in teams. Utilizing Kozlowski et al.’s (1999) model of team compilation, we examine the ... -
Building the New Europe: Western and Eastern Roads to Social Partnership
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] While the ways in which neoliberalism and economic integration undermine social partnership and the welfare state have been extensively studied, less attention has been given to the ways in which such economic ... -
Business Divestment in South Africa: In Who’s Best Interest?
(1987-01-01)In recent years, there has been considerable pressure on corporations doing business in South Africa to divest and withdraw from that country. While this moral view espouses withdrawal, this article seeks to provide insight ... -
Business Union vs. Business Union? Understanding the Split in the US Labour Movement
(2007-01-01)In summer 2005, the trade union movement formalised its split into two rival confederations. The split was precipitated by the 2001 disaffiliation of the carpenters’ union, the Republican electoral victory of 2004, and the ... -
Buy the Book But Not the Stock: The Relationship Between Human Resource Reputation and Corporate Performance
(1992-07-07)Building upon the tenets of Signaling Theory, Spence (1974), this paper introduces the concept of human resource management reputation signals and examines the effects of these signals on the financial perfomance of over ... -
California Farmworkers’ Strikes of 1933
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] The spring of 1933 ushered in a wave of labor unrest unparalleled in the history of California agriculture. Starting in April with the Santa Clara pea harvest, strikes erupted throughout the summer and fall as ... -
California Pea Pickers’ Strike of 1932
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] Just before the start of the May 1932 harvest season, growers in the Half Moon Bay area of San Mateo, California, provoked a spontaneous strike among pea pickers when they reduced piece rates from seventy-five ...
