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ILR Labor Advance, Spring 2009
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Implementation of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard for Small Business
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] The small business utilizes as single owner/operator or a small number of supervisors with multiple responsibilities. Small workforces, limited resources, limited time, and limited technical expertise can make ... -
Industrial Relations and the Reorganization of Work in West Germany: Lessons for the U.S.
(1992-01-01)[Excerpt] Some have suggested that to compete in the new world economy we must not only adopt Japanese production practices but also abandon Western traditions of independent unionism. When U.S. trade unionists naturally ... -
Introduction
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] There is perhaps no more visible segment of the American economy than the arts and entertainment sector. When the Writers guild engaged its members in a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television ... -
Introduction: A Wide-Angle Lens for a Global Marketplace
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] We hope in this volume to accomplish three things. First, we hope to meet the wide and growing demand in the IR community for a better understanding of industrial relations developments abroad. That is, we would ... -
Introduction: An Urban Resurgence of Social Unionism
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] The essays presented here examine the emergence, successes, and failures of contemporary urban-based labor movements, especially in the United States, where such developments are most significant, but also in the ... -
Invisible No More: The Role of Training and Education in Increasing Union Activism of Chinese Home Care Workers in Local 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE)
(2008-03-01)[Excerpt] In 2002 only a small number of Chinese home care workers represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE) were involved in their union. Language, unfamiliarity with unions in the United States, and, ... -
Is There A Women’s Way Of Organizing? Genders, Unions, and Effective Organizing
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Between spring of 2008 and summer 2009, Cornell ILR Labor Programs faculty, staff, and students conducted a project to investigate and analyze several recent examples of women-focused union organizing campaigns. ... -
Labor Action Tracker: Annual Report 2021
(2022)[Excerpt] 2021 was a dramatic year for the US labor movement, with an upsurge in strike activity that gained extensive media attention. In light of ongoing speculation about the scope of these actions, we are particularly ... -
Labor Action Tracker: Annual Report 2022
(Cornell University, ILR School, The Workers Institute, 2023)2022 was yet another important year for the US labor movement, with organizing victories at major private employers and an increase in strikes across the country from the prior year. We are pleased to release the second ... -
Labor and Global Justice: Emerging Reform Coalitions in the World's Only Superpower
(2004-01-01)This paper examines rejuvenated labor, environmental and campus movements in the U.S., in case studies of living wage, anti-sweatshop, sustainable development and Justice for Janitors campaigns. The cases offer surprising ... -
Labor Studies Credit and Degree Programs: A Growth Sector of Higher Education
(1976-05-01)[Excerpt] In a time of generally declining economic activity, labor studies for college credit is a flourishing enterprise. While college enrollments are dropping, budgets being cut back, and new or marginal programs ... -
Labor, Management, and Government Interactions
(2015-01-01)[Excerpt] Labor, management, and government engage in complex interactions in emerging countries, and these interactions strongly influence the evolution of labor relations in those countries. For example, unions and other ... -
Labor-Management Cooperation
(1983-06-01)[Excerpt] In analyzing labor-management cooperation, it is important to be clear on what it is not. It is not an absence of strikes or conflict. Cooperation is not synonymous with industrial peace. Cooperation may take ... -
Larry Rogin and Brendan Sexton: Labor Educators
(1991-03-01)[Excerpt] This volume came about because their friends and work mates in labor education wanted to do something to pay their respects to two giants in their field—Brendan Sexton and Larry Rogin, who died within a few weeks ... -
Letter to the Editor, <i>New Labor Forum</i>
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Bill Fletcher and Rick Hurd have shined a critical light on a vital issue facing the labor movement. They have asked, but not yet answered, how the AFL-ClO's "Organizing for Change, Changing to Organize" program ... -
Lighting the Spark: COMET Program Mobilizes the Ranks for Construction Organizing
(1995-01-01)This article describes the COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training) program. Faced with declining membership and market share and an erosion of bargaining strength and political influence, building ... -
Looking Ahead
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] The American entertainment industry and its system of labor-management relations is now at a crossroads. Its future will be determined to a great extent by emerging developments that could either hinder or ... -
Making Transnational Collaboration Work
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] The need for transnational collaboration among unions across the world is great and growing in the global economy. Case studies presented in this book demonstrate the active fermentation in cross-border relations ... -
Managing Union Management
(2012-08-01)[Excerpt] Management is a function, as well as a class of people. In this article, network member Ken Margolies discusses the management function within unions. It’s a subject he knows pretty well, having written a thesis ...
