Description
Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: The Context for the Reform of Labor Law --
PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES --
1. Reforming U.S. Labor Relations --
2. Section 8(a)(2) and the Origins of the Wagner Act --
3. The Demise of the National Labor Policy: A Question of Social Justice --
PART II. ORGANIZING AND THE LAW --
4. Patterned Responses to Organizing: Case Studies of the Union-Busting Convention --
5. Employer Behavior in Certification Elections and First-Contract Campaigns: Implications for Labor Law Reform --
6. Employer Tactics and Labor Law Reform --
7. Winning NLRB Elections and Establishing Collective Bargaining Relationships --
PART III. REFORMING THE NLRA --
8. Toward Fundamental Change in U.S. Labor Law: A Law Reform Framework --
9. What Will It Take? Establishing the Economic Costs to Management of Noncompliance with the NLRA --
10. Worker Participation after Electromation and DuPont --
11. The Debate over the Ban on Employer-Dominated Labor Organizations: What Is the Evidence? --
12. Status of Workers' Rights to Bargain Collectively --
PART IV. THE OUTCOMES OF BARGAINING RELATIONSHIPS --
13. What Do Unions Do for Women? --
14. The Effects of the Repeal of Utah's Prevailing Wage Law on the Labor Market in Construction --
15. The Role ofTechnology in Undermining Union Strength --
PART V. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES --
16. The Canadian Perspective on Workers' Rights to Form a Union and Bargain Collectively --
17. Reforming U.S. Labor Law and Collective Bargaining: Some Proposals Based on the Canadian System --
18. Union Certification as an Instrument of Labor Policy: A Comparative Perspective --
19. On the Status of Workers' Rights to Organize in the United States and Canada --
PART VI. FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE --
20. Making Postindustrial Unionism Possible --
21. New Bargaining Structures for New Forms of Business Organization --
22. Representing the Part-Time and Contingent Workforce: Challenges for Unions and Public Policy --
References --
About the Contributors --
Index
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501724244
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501724244
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Rudolph A. Oswald, Richard W. Hurd, Ronald L. Seeber, Sheldon Friedman.