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Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century /

Private sector unionism is in decline in the US. This volume examines the strategies being employed by unions to protect their positions & also looks at the new institutions, such as NGOs & community groups, that are concerned with workers' interests.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freeman, Richard B. (Richard Barry), 1943-, Hersch, Joni, 1956-, Mishel, Lawrence R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Individual rights and collective agents : the role of old and new workplace institutions in the regulation of labor markets / David Weil
  • White hats or Don Quixotes? human rights vigilantes in the global economy / Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Freemen
  • The living wage movement : what is it, why is it, and what's known about its impact? / Jared Bernstein
  • The role and functioning of public-interest legal organizations in the enforcement of the employment laws / Christine Jolls
  • Unionization of professional and technical workers : the labor market and institutional transformation / Richard W. Hurd and John Bunge
  • A workers' lobby to provide portable benefits / Joni Hersch
  • A submerging labor market institution? unions and the nonwage aspects of work / Thomas C. Buchmueller, John E. DiNardo, and Robert G. Valletta
  • Union participation in strategic decisions of corporations / Eileen Appelbaum and Larry W. Hunter
  • Development intermediaries and the training of low-wage workers / Lisa M. Lynch.