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Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns., Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2009)
The U.S. Experience of Organising in the Context of the Global Economy, Articles & Chapters (2008)
Excerpt] There is no question that some unions, such as the UAW in auto-transplants and...
Race, gender, and the rebirth of trade unionism (with Dorian T. Warren), New Labor Forum (2007)
Recent non-Board and public sector campaign victories include the 49,000 home child care providers who...
Capital Mobility and Job Loss: Corporate Restructuring, Production Shifts, and Outsourcing (with Stephanie Luce), Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] This chapter examines the impact of corporate restructuring and global outsourcing on employment in...
Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns, Book Samples (2007)
To meet the challenges of globalization, unions must improve their understanding of the changing nature...
Significant Victories: An Analysis of Union First Contracts (with Tom Juravich and Robert Hickey), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] After two decades of massive employment losses in heavily unionized sectors of the economy...
New Unity for Labor? (with Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2005)
From the “Editor’s Introduction”: Within today’s AFL-CIO, a different set of frustrations with the bureaucratic...
Organizing Women: The Nature and Process of Union Organizing Efforts Among U.S. Women Workers Since the mid-1990s, Articles & Chapters (2005)
The relationship between American working women and the U.S. labor movement can neither be easily...
What is Labor’s True Purpose? The Implications of SEIU’s Unite to Win Proposals for Organizing, Articles & Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] That labor is in a crisis cannot be questioned. While there may be some...
Union Organizing Among Professional Women Workers, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2005)
"Women in professional and technical occupations fill a unique niche in the US workforce and...
Introduction: Bringing the Study of Work Back to Labor Studies (with Tom Juravich), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2005)
The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: The Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the US, China, and Around the Globe (with Stephanie Luce), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2004)
Despite the increasing amount of trade between China and the US, and the increase in...
Changing to Organize: A National Assessment of Union Organizing Strategies (with Robert Hickey), Articles & Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] In this chapter we seek to answer the following questions: Why has it been...
Offshoring: The Evolving Profile of Corporate Global Restructuring (with Stephanie Luce), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2004)
For all of the increase in international trade and rising concern about shifting of manufacturing...
The State of Organizing in California: Challenges and Possibilities (with Robert Hickey), University of California Institute for Labor and Employment (2003)
The authors assess the status of recent organizing efforts in California and examine the challenges...
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2003)
Kate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of...
Out of the Ashes: The Steelworkers’ Global Campaign at Bridgestone/Firestone (with Tom Juravich), Articles & Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] The purpose of this chapter is to examine how unions and their allies can...
The American Labour Movement and the Resurgence in Union Organizing, Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study (2003)
[Excerpt] In the last two decades, unions around the globe have watched in dismay as...
Significant Victories: The Practice and Promise of First Contracts in the Public and Private Sectors (with Tom Juravich and Robert Hickey), Research Studies and Reports (2002)
After decades of massive employment losses in heavily unionized sectors of the economy, and the...
Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing. Part II: First Contract Supplement , Research Studies and Reports (2001)
In September 2000 we submitted our research report, "Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility...
The Evolution of Strategic and Coordinated Bargaining Campaigns in the 1990s: The Steelworkers’ Experience (with Tom Juravich), Articles & Chapters (2001)
"With the refocusing of attention of the labor movement on organizing, an increasing number of...
Uneasy Terrain: The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing, Research Studies and Reports (2000)
In May 2000, the United States Trade Deficit Review Commission contracted with Cornell University to...
Reversing the tide of organizing decline: Lessons from the US Experience, New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations (1998)
As increasing numbers of employers and governments in industrialized nations hasten to Americanize their economic...
It Takes More Than House Calls: Organizing to Win with a Comprehensive Union-Building Strategy (with Tom Juravich), Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
[Excerpt] Until recently, some national and local union leaders still argued that labor should circle...
Organizing to Win: Introduction (with Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber), Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
[Excerpt] The American labor movement is at a watershed. For the first time since the...
Preparing for the Worst: Organizing and Staying Organized in the Public Sector (with Tom Juravich), Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
[Excerpt] The free fall of union membership in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.S....
Worker Turnover and Part-Time Employment at UPS, Research Studies and Reports (1997)
Over the last ten years we have seen a dramatic increase in the utilization of...
Raw Power: Plant-Closing Threats and the Threat to Union Organizing, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1997)
Today, in the post-NAFTA climate of expanding trade agreements and skyrocketing levels of corporate migration,...
We'll Close! Plant Closings, Plant-Closing Threats, Union Organizing and NAFTA, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1997)
This article is based on Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of...
The Role of Union Strategies in NLRB Certification Elections, Articles & Chapters (1997)
[Excerpt] Analyzing 1986-87 data from 261 NLRB certification election campaigns, the author finds that union...
Final Report : The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize, International Publications (1996)
The Impact of Employer Opposition on Union Certification Win Rates: A Private/Public Sector Comparison (with Tom Juravich), Articles & Chapters (1994)
"This report represents the first part of a larger study of public sector organizing that...
Employer Behavior in Certification Elections and First-Contract Campaigns: Implications for Labor Law Reform, Articles & Chapters (1994)
"Organizing is an extremely risky and arduous venture for American workers. As the experience of...
Unions and the Contingent Workforce, Articles & Chapters (1994)
"In 1985, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, announced that it was going...