Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch, and Lawrence Mishel
Contributors: Freeman, Richard B. 1943-; Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Mishel, Lawrence R
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Labor market; Labor unions; Industrial relations; White collar workers; Work environment
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Individual rights and collective agents: the role of old and new workplace institutions in the regulation of labor markets / David Weil; title: White hats or Don Quixotes? human rights vigilantes in the global economy / Kimberly Ann Elliott; Richard B. Freemen; title: The living wage movement: what is it, why is it, and what's known about its impact? Jared Bernstein; title: The role and functioning of public-interest legal organizations in the enforcement of the employment laws / Christine Jolls; title: Unionization of professional and technical workers: the labor market and institutional transformation / Richard W. Hurd, John Binge; title: A workers' lobby to provide portable benefits / Joni Hersch; title: A submerging labor market institution? unions and the nonwage aspects of work / Thomas C. Buchmueller, John E. DiNardo, Robert G. Valletta; title: Union participation in strategic decisions of corporations / Eileen Appelbaum, Larry W. Hunter; title: Development intermediaries and the training of low-wage workers / Lisa M. Lynch