Title

Organized Labor at the Crossroads

Year

1989

Abstract

This group of essays offers a detailed look at the problems, choices and future of industrial relations.

Contents

  1. Introduction / Wei-Chiao Huang
  2. Bargaining Realities: Responding to a Changing World / Sharon P. Smith
  3. Innovation or Confrontation: Alternative Directions for American Industrial Relations / Thomas A. Kochan and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
  4. Organized Labor's Political Agenda: An Economist's Evaluation / George E. Johnson
  5. The Promise of Profit Sharing / Martin L. Weitzman
  6. The Changing Status of Unionism Around the World: Some Emerging Patterns / Richard B. Freeman
  7. Evidence on U.S. Experiences with Dispute Resolution Systems / Orley Ashenfelter

Note

Papers presented during the 24th annual lecture-seminar series conducted by the Department of Economics at Western Michigan University

Sponsorship

Financial support provided by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the College of Arts and Sciences of Western Michigan University

ISBN

9780880990752 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Unions and collective bargaining