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Political Loyalties, Immigrant Traditions, and Reform: The Wisconsin German-American Press and Progressivism, 1909-1912
(1957-03-01)Progressive leaders held that German-Americans supported them in their bid for national power. This author takes a look at the other side, at the terms of the German-Americans themselves, and finds – quite another story. -
The Mutual Aid Pact of the Airline Industry
(1965-10-01)"ON OCTOBER 30, 1958, representatives of six of the nation's twelve domestic trunk-line carriers and one international carrier signed an agreement, effective retroactively to October 20,1958, establishing a program for the ... -
The Strike Insurance Plan of the Railroad Industry
(1967-02-01)"A far-reaching program designed to minimize revenue losses during strikes became operative in the nation's railroad industry on September 1, 1959. The plan is formally known as the Service Interruption Policy, or, more ... -
Remedies for Discrimination in Apprenticeship Programs
(1967-05-01)[Excerpt] Efforts by Negroes to gain admission to apprenticeship programs in the building, machinist, and printing crafts have received widespread attention. Street demonstrations, picketing, entrance blocking, "sleepins" ... -
Manpower Programs and Regional Development
(1968-03-01)[Excerpt] In military engagements, one can seldom select the most conducive setting in which to seek a total victory. So it is with the federally assisted manpower training effort. Its overall destiny resides in its ability ... -
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: A Review Article
(1968-06-01)"On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders made public its findings concerning the nature, causes, and solutions to the violence which rocked many of the nation's cities during the "long, hot ... -
The Effectiveness of Reinstatement as a Public Policy Remedy: The Kohler Case
(1969-01-01)This article is concerned with two aspects of the NLRB reinstatement remedy as applied in the famous Kohler case: (1) how effective the remedy was, particularly in terms of the number of employees who returned to Kohler ... -
Interplant Transfer and Terminated Workers: A Case Study
(1970-01-01)Following its decision to close four plants and transfer their operations to a new location, the General Foods Corporation offered jobs in the new plant to all 1,800 affected employees and payment of their transfer expenses. ... -
Silence in America Textbooks
(1970-01-01)[Excerpt] Although more than two decades separate us from the time when the Allied forces revealed the depth and dimensions of the Nazi horror, America’s textbook-writing historians still do not understand the demands the ... -
Absenteeism and the Overtime Decision
(1970-06-01)[Excerpt] Upon reading the congressional hearing on the Overtime Pay Penalty Act of 1964, one cannot fail to be impressed by the emphasis that management places on absenteeism as a primary cause of overtime. The argument ... -
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 ... -
Revolutionary Coalition Strength and Collective Failure as Determinants of Status Reallocation
(1971-01-01)This experiment investigated the effects of collective performance and coalition strength on the redistribution of status prerogatives in triads. A status hierarchy was established within triads, such that one person held ... -
Interplant Transfer and Terminated Workers: A Case Study (Reply)
(1971-04-01)[Excerpt] The design of policies intended to aid workers who are threatened with displacement involves issues of a complex and difficult nature. The need for careful analysis of the issues is emphasized by Thomas Kochan's ... -
How Union Leaders View Job Training Programs
(1971-04-01)How do local union leaders view manpower training programs for hard-core-disadvantaged blacks? How do they perceive their members' attitudes towards these training programs? Do unions block the implementation of job training, ... -
The Outcome of Impasse Procedures in New York Schools Under the Taylor Law
(1971-07-01)The effectiveness of New York’s Taylor Law, and of the Public Employment Relations Board established under it, may be measured in a number of ways. One is to see whether it does, in fact, eliminate strikes of public ... -
The Impact of the Overtime Premium on Employment and Hours in U.S. Industry
(1971-08-01)[Excerpt] This paper presents empirical estimates of the intra-industry cross-section relationship between annual overtime hours per man and the ratio of these quasi-fixed costs to the overtime wage rate. Estimates are ... -
Craft Entry for Minorities: The Case of Project JUSTICE
(1971-10-01)[Excerpt] Demonstrations in Chicago and Pittsburgh in 1969 focused national attention on the problem of the racial integration of the building trades. Many solutions to the problem have been suggested or tried, including ... -
Reasons for Employer Non-Participation in Manpower Training Programs for the Disadvantaged
(1971-11-01)On-the-job training has become one of the federal government's most current methods of aiding the disadvantaged worker. However, a major problem in implementation is the recruiting of employers who will take part in the ... -
Private and Social Returns to Education in Labour Surplus Economies
(1972-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to consider the cost-benefit criterion for resource allocation in labour surplus economies calling particular attention to the contrasts with full employment economies. The specific ... -
Worker Attitudes Towards Black Hard Core Trainees
(1972-01-01)The reception which hard core black trainees receive from the rank and file employees with whom they are placed may have a critical impact on the success of the overall training program. This article reports on a study ...
