The elusive search for job security
Subtitle: a historical inquiry into dismissals in the US workplace
By: editor, Matthias Beck
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781620817667
Subjects: Employees; Law and legislation; Dismissal of; Labor laws and legislation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The common law of employment termination; title: The English law of employment termination; title: The American rule of employment at-will; title: Critics of at-will employment; title: The failed promise of statutory protection; title: The promised lands of protected; title: Bargaining; title: Concession bargaining and job security; title: Unions versus the "core of managerial control"; title: Preserving managerial power; title: Unjust dismissal litigation; title: The "erosion" of at-will employment; title: The state and unjust dismissal litigation; title: Geographic diffusion and conceptual consolidation; title: Unjust dismissal litigation and job security; title: Conclusion; title: An excurse on the economics of dismissal restriction; title: Afterword; title: List of works cited; title: Index.