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NAFTA 10 Years Later: Workers Continue to Be Exploited
(2003-12-23)[Excerpt] A new report by the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center on core labor standards in Mexico details an iron triangle of government officials, company managers and favored "official" unions making sweetheart contract deals ... -
NAFTA's Labor Side Accord: A Three-Year Accounting
(1997-07-01)[Excerpt] Any number of idealized "social charters" with universal standards and swift, powerful enforcement powers could be drafted by critics of the labor side agreement. But the NAALC was negotiated by sovereign governments ... -
NAFTA’s Labour Side Agreement and International Labour Solidarity
(2001-01-01)The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its supplemental labour pact, the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), reflect the uneven advances of labour rights advocacy in connection with ... -
Narratives of Deservingness and the Institutional Youth of Immigrant Workers
(2015-01-01)This article speaks to the special issue’s goal of disrupting the deserving/undeserving immigrant narrative by critically examining eligibility criteria available under two arenas of relief for undocumented immigrants: 1) ... -
Narratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes 1887-1903
(1999-12-01)[Excerpt] The strikes narrated in this paper have illustrated different ways in which individuals' recognition of ethnic identity could interact with their recognition of gender and class identities. In each strike workers' ... -
National Industrial Relations and Local Bargaining Power in the US and German Telecommunications Industries
(2008-01-01)This article compares the process and outcomes of collective negotiations over the outsourcing of call center jobs in US and German telecommunications firms. In the USA, the Communication Workers of America relied on ... -
National Industrialisation Strategies and Their Influence on Patterns of HR Practices
(1996-01-01)This article uses a framework developed by Kuruvilla (1995a) that hypothesised a very close link between industrialisation strategies of Southeast Asian nations and industrial relations systems. That framework is used here ... -
National Industrialization Strategies and Firm Level IR/HR Practices: Case Studies in Malaysia and Philippines
(1994-04-01)[Excerpt] Any economy is characterized by several different patterns of industrial relations (IR)and human resource (HR) practices at the level of the workplace. Often, the patterns of IR/HR practices of firms differ based ... -
National Labor Strategies in Changing Environments: Perspectives from Mexico
(1996-12-01)[Excerpt] This essay will look at the evolution of Mexican trade unions' strategies in response to changes in their political-economic environment over a period of nearly twenty-five years. The purpose of the essay is to ... -
National Manpower Policy
(1971-01-01)[Excerpt] In terms of governmental concern for the operation of the labor market, the 1960's has been called the era of the manpower revolution. During this decade the United States constructed the foundation for a national ... -
National Struggles in a Transnational Economy: A Critical Analysis of US Labor's Campaign Against NAFTA
(1997-01-01)"Following an overview of US workers' changing relation to free trade in the postwar era, this article offers a critical review of labor's fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Breaking the campaign ... -
Navigating Occupational Health Rights: The Function of Illegality, Language, and Class Inequality in Workers' Compensation
(2014-01-01)[Excerpt] In this chapter, I argue that although undocumented status has little formal bearing on the ability of workers like Jose to access key rights such as workers' compensation, illegality shapes every aspect of ... -
Negotiating Rationally: The Dynamics of the Relational-Self in Negotiations
(2006-01-01)In this article we advance a distinctly relational view of negotiation. We delineate the conditions through which relational self-construals (RSC) become accessible in negotiations and the conditions that inhibit their ... -
Negotiating Relationally: The Dynamics of the Relational Self In Negotiations
(2007-02-15)Although negotiation research is thriving, it has been criticized as having an arelational bias—emphasizing autonomy, competition, and rationality over interdependence, cooperation, and relationality. In this article, we ... -
Negotiations in Organizations: A Sociological Perspective
(1991-01-01)[Excerpt] The paper begins by elaborating on the utility of viewing organizational conflict and negotiations in social movement terms, and some of the implications of this approach for negotiations research. It then turns ... -
Nerd Harassment and Grade Inflation: Are College Admissions Policies Partly Responsible?
(1999-11-01)[Excerpt] In the eyes of American parents, college admissions officers control the single most important gate their children will ever pass through. Nearly all parents hope their child will go to college. Perceptions of ... -
Nerd Harassment and Grade Inflation: Are College Admissions Policies Partly Responsible?
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] In the eyes of American parents, college admissions officers control the single most important gate their children will ever pass through. Nearly all parents hope their child will go to college. Perceptions of ... -
NET WORKING: Work Patterns and Workforce Policies for the New Media Industry
(2000-11-01)This report, based on a study of a group of highly accomplished professionals in New York City, is one of the first to take up labor market issues in the new media industry. It describes the challenges faced by professionals ... -
Neutrality Agreements: Innovative, Controversial, and Labor’s Hope for the Future
(2008-04-01)[Excerpt] In spite of the criticisms, there can be little doubt that labor’s campaigns to achieve and enforce neutrality agreements offer hope that the long-term decline in union density actually can be reversed. A ... -
New Challenges to Arbitration
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] "Today we face developments in practically every aspect of our lives portending changes within the next quarter century as great as any we have experienced." Changes in one's own field, as in society in general, ...
