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Collective Bargaining in the Era of Grocery Industry Restructuring, Articles & Chapters (2008)
[Excerpt] As UFCW international and local leaders know from first hand experience, there have been...
Neutrality Agreements: Innovative, Controversial, and Labor’s Hope for the Future, Articles & Chapters (2008)
[Excerpt] In spite of the criticisms, there can be little doubt that labor’s campaigns to...
The Origins, Effectiveness and Future of Neutrality Agreements, Articles & Chapters (2008)
[Excerpt] The 2006 hotel campaign epitomizes the contemporary union practice of bargaining to organize. As...
Reflections on PATCO’s Legacy: Labor’s Strategic Challenges Persist, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] The 1981 strike by over 11,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization...
Dueling Federations: U.S. Labor in 2006, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Labor unity in the U.S. lasted exactly half a century. At the convention to...
Review of The Twilight of the Old Unionism, Articles & Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] Leo Troy is known for the penetrating questions he raises about the role of...
The Failure of Organizing, the New Unity Partnership and the Future of the Labor Movement, Articles & Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] The New Unity Partnership (NUP) has stirred up a firestorm of controversy in union...
The Rise and Fall of the Organizing Model in the U.S., Articles & Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] Much of the strategic debate in the U.S. has revolved around the organizing model,...
Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation (with John Bunge), Articles & Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] Established institutions that serve the interests of white-collar workers find themselves at a critical...
Wege zur Transformation gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsstrukturen (with Martin Behrens and Jeremy Waddington), Articles & Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] Bei einer länderübergreifenden Betrachtung erweist sich die Neubelebung der Arbeiterbewegung als ein komplexer Prozess...
In Defense of Public Service: Union Strategy in Transition, Articles & Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] Public sector unions have displayed healthy durability for the past twenty years, apparently immune...
Contesting the Dinosaur Image: The Labor Movement’s Search for a Future, Articles & Chapters (2002)
[Excerpt] But the increased effectiveness of labor's political activities has not resulted in major improvements...
Building Social Movement Unionism: The Transformation of the American Labor Movement (with Lowell Turner), Articles & Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] In the United States, the renewed energy displayed by the labor movement is particularly...
Overcoming Obstacles to Transformation: Challenges on the Way to a New Unionism (with Bill Fletcher Jr.), Articles & Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] The change to organizing requires more than a shift in resources. It is difficult...
Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects (with Lowell Turner and Harry C. Katz), Articles & Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] The purpose of this book is to examine union revitalization efforts: to identify central...
Is Organizing Enough? Race, Gender, and Union Culture (with Bill Fletcher Jr.), Articles & Chapters (2000)
[Excerpt] We argue that the quantitative interpretation of Changing to Organize is self-limiting, if not...
Political Will, Local Union Transformation, and the Organizing Imperative (with Bill Fletcher Jr.), Articles & Chapters (1999)
[Excerpt] As part of its ongoing commitment, SEIU has devoted increasing attention to the challenge...
Review of the Book We Can’t Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard, Articles & Chapters (1998)
[Excerpt] In 1988 the fifteen-year campaign to organize office and laboratory workers at Harvard University...
Beyond the Organizing Model: The Transformation Process in Local Unions (with Bill Fletcher), Articles & Chapters (1998)
[Excerpt] The ideological foundations of traditional U.S. trade unionism have been called into question by...
Fear, Conflict, and Union Organizing, Articles & Chapters (1998)
[Excerpt] Workers' fears—of job loss, of strikes, of management retaliation—are well-documented obstacles to successful union...
Organizing to Win: Introduction (with Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber), Articles & Chapters (1998)
[Excerpt] The American labor movement is at a watershed. For the first time since the...
Unionization Among College Faculty - 1996 (with Amy Foerster), Articles & Chapters (1996)
[Excerpt] Unionization among college and university faculty continued its slow but steady increase in 1995....
Assault on Workers’ Rights, Labor Unions (1994)
The cases in this report describe employers' blatant contempt for the rights of workers to...
Introduction: The Context for the Reform of Labor Law (with Sheldon Friedman, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber), Articles & Chapters (1994)
[Excerpt] It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. system of collective bargaining is no...
Patterned Responses to Organizing: Case Studies of the Union-Busting Convention (with Joseph B. Uehlein), Articles & Chapters (1994)
[Excerpt] In June 1993, the Industrial Union Department (IUD) of the AFL-CIO initiated a project...
Organizing and Representing Clerical Workers: The Harvard Model, Articles & Chapters (1993)
[Excerpt] The private sector clerical work force is largely nonunion, simultaneously offering the labor movement...
The Unionization of Clerical, Technical, and Professional Employees in Higher Education: Threat or Opportunity, Articles & Chapters (1993)
[Excerpt] Union organizing among non-teaching white collar employees of colleges and universities persists. To the...
Barriers to Union Organizing, Conference Proceedings, Presentations, and Speeches (1992)
[Excerpt] The current environment presents dramatic challenges for the American labor movement. Structural change in...
A Preliminary Report on Non-Faculty Bargaining at Colleges and Universities - 1993 (with Elizabeth O'Leary), Articles & Chapters (1992)
[Excerpt] Although we will present more detailed data in subsequent sections, we would like to...
Non-Faculty Unionization at Institutions of Higher Education, Articles & Chapters (1991)
[Excerpt] The decade of the 1980's was a difficult one for the labor movement as...
Organizing Clerical Workers, Articles & Chapters (1989)
[Excerpt] There are two organizing models that are effective among clerical workers. One model is...
The Unionization of Clerical Workers in Colleges and Universities: A Status Report, Conference Proceedings, Presentations, and Speeches (1989)
[Excerpt] The 1980s have presented a myriad of problems for the labor movement as membership...
Organizing Clerical Workers: Determinants of Success (with Adrienne McElwain), Articles & Chapters (1988)
This paper investigates factors influencing the outcome of union organizing efforts among clerical workers in...
The Unionization of Clerical Workers at Large U.S. Universities and Colleges (with Gregory Woodhead), Articles & Chapters (1987)
[Excerpt] The unionization of clerical workers on college campuses is steadily increasing and becoming the...
“The Rise and Demise of PATCO” Reconstructed (with Jill K. Kriesky), Articles & Chapters (1986)
[Excerpt] In his article "The Rise and Demise of PATCO" (Northrup 1984), Herbert Northrup presents...