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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 ... -
New York at Work 2021: Annual Report
(2021)We are pleased to release the first edition of New York at Work from Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). The report provides ILR expertise, research-based data and policy ... -
NUMMI – Japanische Produktionskonzepte in den USA
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] NUMMI, die Produktionsstätte des Joint-Venture von General Motors und Toyota, hat Modellcharakter für die gesamte US-Automobilindustrie erlangt und gilt mittlerweile als Paradebeispiel fur eine erfolgreiche ... -
On-Demand Employment, Worker Misclassification, and Labor Standards
(2019-01-01)[Excerpt] On-demand platform work, like other forms of contingent and temporary employment, destabilizes industries, undermines worker protections and living standards, and significantly contributes to wealth and income ... -
On-Demand Platform Workers in New York State: The Challenges for Public Policy
(2019-01-01)[Excerpt] This report examines one specific subset of New York state’s contingent workforce: on-demand workers who obtain work through online platforms or “apps.” Often referred to popularly as “gig” workers, we use the ... -
Organised Labour and Community Colleges
(1976-10-01)[Excerpt] This paper will explore areas of labour-community college cooperation, survey jointly planned programmes currently underway, and analyse problem areas. -
Passion for Justice’
(2011-07-01)[Excerpt] Drawing on my experience and contacts, I advise and assist ILR students who are interested in working in the labor movement or other social justice organizations. Today's students seem more focused and practical ... -
Paths to Global Social Regulation – What Can Americans Learn from the European Union
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] For American proponents of global justice, social Europe appears distant yet inspirational, with all its weaknesses still a "vanguard" model for the social regulation of the global economy. We believe that a great ... -
Perils of the High and Low Roads: Employment Relations in the United States and Germany
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The U.S. crisis is characterized by growing income inequality, a shrinking safety net, and the decline of worker representation. Like the German crisis, it is caused in part by intensified global competition. ... -
Political Insiders and Social Activists: Coalition Building in New York and Los Angeles
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Why have labor movements in New York City and Los Angeles changed so dramatically? And more specifically, why have the activist social coalitions that revitalized the labor movement in Los Angeles not played the ... -
Power and Voice at Work: New Yorkers View Employer Retaliation as a Barrier to Addressing Workplace Problems and Express Desire for Union Representation
(2021-08)In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this policy brief highlights key findings from the national Just Recovery Survey that provides insight into how New Yorkers compare to the rest of the country with regard to perceptions ... -
Project Labor Agreements in New York State: In the Public Interest
(2009-03-01)It is especially challenging in these tough economic times for officials within New York City’s and New York State’s many entities to decide how best to use public money for construction and renovation projects. This article ...
