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Faculty Publications - Labor Relations, Law, and History
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Bottom-Up Organizing: HERE in New Haven & Boston
Hurd, Rick (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 ... -
Final Report : The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize
Bronfenbrenner, Kate (1996-09-30) -
Free Speech and Freedom of Association: Finding the Balance
Compa, Lance A. (2013-06-01)[Excerpt] The fundamental right to freedom of association guarantees that workers are able to form and join trade unions free from any interference from employers and governments. This basic principle has been applied ... -
The Restructuring of Industrial Relations in the United States
Katz, Harry C. (1991-05-01)This paper discusses the extent to which a new industrial relations system including greater participation in decision making by workers and unions has diffused in the American economy. The paper uses the automobile as an ... -
Final Report on a Survey of Training and the Restructuring of Work in Large Unionized Firms
Katz, Harry C.; Keefe, Jeffrey H. (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 ... -
From “Old Red Socks” to Modern Human Resource Managers? The Transformation of Employee Relations in Eastern Germany
Turner, Lowell (1994-11-01)Excerpt] With the dramatic and unexpected opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, began a far-reaching process of transformation in every aspect of society within the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East ... -
ILR Impact Brief - Employment Arbitration: Emergence of a New Profession
Seeber, Ronald L.; Lipsky, David B. (2006-01-01)The ILR Impact Brief series highlights the research and project based work conducted by ILR faculty that is relevant to workplace issues and public policy. Brief #1 highlights the authors' research on employment arbitration, ... -
Labor Rights in Haiti
Compa, Lance (1989-04-01)[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund by Lance Compa, Washington Representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine ... -
Trade’s Hidden Costs: Worker Rights in a Changing World Economy
Cavanagh, John; Compa, Lance; Ebert, Allan; Goold, Bill; Selvaggio, Kathy; Shorrock, Tim (1988-01-01)[Excerpt] For decades, the U.S. foreign assistance program has sought with limited results to further economic development and growth in Third World countries. We have witnessed some countries making real progress toward ... -
Blueprint for Change: A National Assessment of Winning Union Organizing Strategies
Bronfenbrenner, Kate; Hickey, Robert (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 ...