Readings in labor economics
By: edited by Gordon F. Bloom, Herbert R. Northrup [and] Richard L. Rowan.
Publisher: R. D. Irwin
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Homewood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 709
Subjects: Labor unions -- United States.; Labor economics.
Table of contents: title: Industrialism and world society / Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick Harbison, and Charles A. Myers -- Manpower - challenge of the 1960's / U.S. Department of Labor -- Employment problems in a changing economy / Sanford Cohen -- The future population "mix" / Daniel Selip;man and Lawrence A. Mayer -- The development of labor organization : a theoretical framework / John T. Dunlop -- American shoemakers, 1648-1895 / John R. Commons -- The Knights of Labor and the trade unions, 1878-1886 / Gerald N. Grob -- The victory of craft unionism and the final failure of producers' cooperation / Selig Perlman -- The Industrial Workers of the World and revolutionary unionism / R. F. Hoxie -- Organized labor and the New Deal / Philip Taft -- Structural changes in the American labor movement and industrial relations systems / John T. Dunlop -- Trade union government : concepts and perspectives / Jack Barbash -- Membership of American trade unions, 1960 / Harry P. Cohany -- The union business agent's perspective of his job / Hjalmar Rosen and R. A. Hudson Rosen -- The national union : basic governmental unit / William M. Leiserson -- The constitution and government of the AFL-CIO / John Hutchinson -- Dues and fee-charging arrangements of labor unions / Monthly Labor Review -- The unions and their wealth / A. H. Raskin -- Unions and union leaders of their own choosing / Clark Kerr -- Bureaucracy and democracy in labor unions / Will Herberg -- The UAW Public Review Board : an examination and evaluation / Jack Stieber -- Labor - the organizing problem / Fortune Magazine -- New union frontier : white collar workers / Everett M. Kassalow -- The shifting power balance in the plant / George Strauss -- Wage structure considerations / Sumner H. Slichter, James J. Healy, and E. R. Livernash -- Supplementary remuneration for factory workers, 1959 / Enzo A. Puglishi -- Right-to-work laws : symbols or substance? / James W. Kuhn -- The great featherbed fight / Gilbert Burck -- Featherbedding : an assertion of property rights / William Gomberg -- Property in work / Simon Rottenberg -- Social and economic aspects of automation / Ewan Clague -- Management's "new look" in labor relations / Herbert R. Northrup -- Union response to the "hard line" / Jack Barbash -- An evaluation of wage theory / Frank C. Pierson -- Some aspects of labor market structure / Lloyd G. Reynolds -- Labor monopoly and all that / Edward S. Mason -- The economic influence of big unions / Frank C. Pierson -- Do the wage-fixing arrangements in the American labor market have an inflationary bias? / Sumner H. Slichter -- Trade-unionism and distributive shares / Clark Kerr -- Productivity, costs and prices : concepts and measures / John W. Kendrick -- What a 35-hour week would mean / Business Week -- The problem of persistent unemployment / Eva Mueller and Jay Schmiedeskamp -- National Labor Relations Act -- Text of Labor Management Relations Act -- Landrum-Griffin Act : the law in brief / Bureau of National Affairs -- Union trusteeships / report of the Secretary of Labor -- The social control of industrial relations / Sumner H. Slichter -- The prospects for industrial conflict / Arthur M. Ross -- The role of labor unions / George W. Taylor.