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Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities
(2006-11-12)This study uses panel data to examine the relationship between faculty employment and external R&D expenditures at research and doctoral institutions over a 15-year period of time. Not surprisingly, full-time faculty that ... -
Faculty in the Corporate University: Professional Identity, Law and Collective Action
(Cornell University, 2007)Over the past two decades, major social and legal developments have made an enormous impact on U.S. universities' core functions of research and teaching, leading to a move away from the traditional "public interest" model ... -
Faculty Retirement Policies after the End of Mandatory Retirement
(2001-10-01)[Excerpt] The findings we report above have implications for both institutions and their faculty members. In some states, rapidly growing college age cohorts will require academic institutions to hire large numbers of new ... -
Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities: Analyses of AAUP Data
(1990-01-01)This paper uses institutional level data collected by the American Association of University Professors as part of their annual survey of faculty members' compensation to analyze faculty turnover. Analyses of aggregate ... -
Faith, Politics, and American Culture [Review of the Books 'Letter to a Christian Nation', 'Pity and Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom', 'Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together', 'The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America', 'Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement', and 'Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America']
(2008-04-01)[Excerpt] In January 2004, before a black church congregation in New Orleans, President George W. Bush commemorated Martin Luther King's birthday with a spirited promotion of his faith-based initiatives. Appropriating the ... -
Falling Labor Income Inequality in Korea’s Economic Growth: Patterns and Underlying Causes
(2000-01-01)Over the last twenty-five years, the economy of the Republic of Korea achieved a remarkable growth rate of 7 percent per year in real per capita income, causing it to be labeled, justifiably, as a “miracle economy.” This ... -
Faltering Standardization: Conflict and Labour Relations in China's Taxi and Sanitation Industries
(Wiley & Sons, 2021-09)The marketization of municipal services in China's cities from the 1990s triggered a wave of strikes beginning in the 2000s that provided an impetus towards standardization and the re-regulation of employment conditions. ... -
Families and the Collar Line
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] Social mobility studies begin with the assumption that movement from any blue-collar job to any white-collar job represents unmitigated betterment of an individual's or generation's social status. These studies ... -
Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880-1930
(2013-01-01)The common image of a female wage earner in the U.S. in the decades around the turn of the 20th century is that of a young, single woman: the daughter of her family. However, the wives and mothers of these families also ... -
Fear, Conflict, and Union Organizing
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] Workers' fears—of job loss, of strikes, of management retaliation—are well-documented obstacles to successful union organizing. Exploiting these fears is at the heart of employers' union-avoidance strategies. ... -
Fear: A Misunderstood Component of Organizational Transformation
(1994-07-01)Corporate transformations are being implemented by many organizations, however, successes are remarkably rare. This paper suggests that a contributing factor might be the ineffective use of fear in employee communications. ... -
Feeling Socially Connected Increases Utilitarian Choices in Moral Dilemmas
(Elsevier, 2014-07)The current research explores the relationship between feeling socially connected and decision-making in high- conflict moral dilemmas. High-conflict moral dilemmas pit utilitarian outcomes, where one person is directly ... -
Field Opacity and Practice-Outcome Decoupling: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
(Cornell University, 2020-08)Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable ... -
Fighting Back: Workers Challenge Plant Shut-downs
(1985-01-01)[Excerpt] The United Electrical Workers union, at Allentown and elsewhere, has tried to develop tactics to block "final" plant-closing decisions. In their battles, UE members have challenged management-knows-best assumptions. ... -
Final Report on a Survey of Training and the Restructuring of Work in Large Unionized Firms
(1993-10-19)[Excerpt] This report summarizes and analyzes a survey of the training and work restructuring occurring in large unionized firms. This survey provides the most comprehensive answers to date to the following questions for ... -
Final-Offer Arbitration and Public-Safety Employees: The Massachusetts Experience
(1977-12-01)[Excerpt] We conclude that, in terms of its impact on the bargaining process, final-offer arbitration has had a mixed record in Massachusetts. On the one hand, the law must probably be given some credit for preventing ... -
Final-Offer Arbitration and Salaries of Police and Firefighters
(1978-07-01)[Excerpt] Did final-offer arbitration have a discernible impact on the salaries of police and firefighters in Massachusetts during the 3-year trial period which ended June 30, 1977? To analyze this question, we collected ... -
Financial Forces and the Future of American Higher Education
(2004-07-01)Recent shifts in state funding are altering the most basic realities of American higher education, from student access to faculty research. -
Financial Forecasts for the Next Decade
(2000-04-01)[Excerpt] Harold Hovey pointed out that the outlook for state funding of public higher education institutions during the first decade of the 21st century might not be as rosy as it has been during the last five years. The ...
