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Psychosocial Capacity Building in New York: Building Resiliency with Construction Workers Assigned to Ground Zero after 9/11
(2010-01-01)[Excerpt] Psychosocial capacity building, which is a more common approach in response to disasters outside of Western Europe and the U.S., was, in part, a reaction against the perceived “traumatization” and pathologizing ... -
Puerto Ricans, Politics, and Labor Activism
(1984-01-11)[Excerpt] Puerto Rican electoral activism in urban America is a relatively recent development. When we contrast electoral activism with labor activism, we find that Puerto Rican participation in the labor movement generally ... -
Rank-and-File Participation in Organizing at Home and Abroad
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] We know that we need labor law reform. But it is also clear that this is not all we need; nor can we expect to achieve legal reform simply by electing Democrats. That strategy did not work in 1978-79 or in 1993-94, ... -
Reflections on Progress at Work
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] Today, we enter our second half century, facing a new millennium of opportunity. We pause to celebrate with pride our ILR Extension heritage, from its roots in Buffalo. We pay tribute to colleagues before us and ... -
Reinventing an Organizing Union: Strategies for Change
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] Confronted by declining membership and market share as well as an erosion of bargaining strength and political influence, a sense of crisis now pervades many international unions. Some labor unions continue to ... -
Representing Difficult People
(2000-05-01)[Excerpt] Few stewards would argue that most of their union work flows directly from problems with management. Contract misinterpretations and outright violations, thoughtless supervision, paperwork foulups and a million ... -
Reversing Inequality, Combatting Climate Change: A Climate Jobs Program for New York State
(2017-06-01)[Excerpt] Economic inequality in New York is rising. Currently, the state has the second highest level of economic inequality in the country. Unequal job growth across the state and stagnant wages in several sectors are ... -
Revitalizing Labor In Today's World Markets
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] Competitiveness for firms is possible via the high road or low road, or some combination of the two. For a nation, however, if competitiveness means the ability of a country's firms to sell on world markets while ... -
Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this book is to examine union revitalization efforts: to identify central developments, to analyze strengths and weaknesses in the new initiatives, and to assessprogress made and prospects for the ... -
Reviving the American Labor Movement: Institutions and Mobilization
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] The reawakening of the American labor movement under new leadership with new strategic orientations is a remarkable chapter in late 20thcentury American economic and political history. Given up for dead by so ... -
Reviving the Labor Movement: A Comparative Perspective
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] In recent years, the long-declining U.S. labor movement has refocused in new and promising ways on rank-and-file mobilization, in organizing drives, collective bargaining conflicts and political campaigns. Such ... -
Robo the Steward
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] Some years ago a science fiction movie featured Robocop, the perfect police officer. He had super-human abilities and a set of prime directives to govern his approach to the job. It got me thinking: What if there ... -
Serving the Public Interest: Preventing Double-Breasting in the Construction Industry
(2007-10-17)Excerpt] But the immediate question I am addressing is how the practice of double-breasting undermines the stability of collective bargaining in the construction industry. The simple answer is that it is not exceedingly ... -
Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions
(1981-07-01)[Excerpt] Organizing a film festival of pro-labor Hollywood films would be rather difficult. When unions do appear, they are often part of the subplot or the background for the main story line. -
Social Partnership in Germany: Lessons for U.S. Labor and Management
(1993-01-01)German industrial relations in the postwar period have made a major contribution to German industrial success. The German system is rooted in the explicit recognition of well organized interests: strong, assertive employers ... -
Social Partnership: An Organizing Concept for Industrial Relations Reform
(1994-06-01)[Excerpt] In this era of globalization and intensified world market competition, once stable relationships involving firms, unions and government have come under pressure everywhere. Here in the United States, a crisis of ... -
Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the Twenty-First Century
(2005-09-01)American building trades unions have historically played a critical and stabilizing role in the nation’s construction industry, establishing uniform standards and leveling the competitive playing field. Union members have ... -
State of the Artist: Challenges to the New York State Arts & Entertainment Industry and its Workforce
(2017-06-01)[Excerpt] In 2009, with support from Empire State Development (ESD), the Cornell University ILR School published its first report on the state of the New York arts and entertainment (A&E) workforce, Empire State’s Cultural ... -
Steward Training in the Construction Industry: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Faces the Challenge
(1993-01-01)[Excerpt] This article examines the development and delivery of the Carpenters union national construction steward training program. It describes the collaboration of the union and Cornell University in the design of the ... -
Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State: Past, Present, and a Possible Future
(2019-01-01)This report maps current patterns of workplace sexual harassment and their impact in New York State. It also provides a broader frame for understanding how efforts to confront sexual and gender-based harassment and assault ...
