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Readings in Labor Economics & Industrial Relations

by Joseph Shister. 673 pgs.

Contributors:

   Joseph Shister

Publisher:

   Lippincott

Place of Publication:

  Philadelphia  

Publication Year:

  1951

Subjects:

Labor, Industrial Relations

	CONTENTS
	Preface	v
	Part I THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS
	Introductory	3
	A Working Class: E. WIGHT BAKKE	5
	Class Structure in America: RICHARD CENTERS	12
	The Worker's View of Job Opportunity: LLOYD G. REYNOLDS & JOSEPH SHISTER	16
	What is the Labor Problem?: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	23
	Part II TRADE-UNIONISM
	A THE GROWTH OF TRADE-UNIONISM
	Introductory	29
	Why Workers Join Unions: E. WIGHT BAKKE	30
	How and Why Unions Are Organized: JACK BARBASH	37
	The Logic of Union Growth: JOSEPH SHISTER	48
	Unionization of the White-Collar Worker: ROBERT BURNS	65
	Obstacles to Future Union Growth: "FORTUNE MAGAZINE"	75
	Union Membership Statistics: IRVING BERNSTEIN	78
	B TRADE-UNION OBJECTIVES
	Introductory	80
	Job-Conscious Unionism: The Commons-Perlman Theory: PHILLIP TAFT	81
	From "Job-Consciousness" To Power Accumulation: J. B. S. HARDMAN	85
	Ideology and the Unions: JACK BARBASH	98
	C TRADE-UNION STRUCTURE AND GOVERNMENT
	Introductory	100
	Trade-Union Structure: ROBERT F. HOXIE	101
	Labor's New Men of Power: DANIEL BELL	103
	Bureaucracy and Democracy in Labor Unions: WILL HERBERG	114
	Democracy in Labor Unions: JOEL SEIDMAN	122
	Patterns of Participation in Local Unions: GEORGE STRAUSS & LEONARD R. SAYLES	132
	Union Affiliation and Membership: U. S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS	145
D	TRADE-UNION POLITICAL ACTIVITY
	Introductory	146
	Unions, Government, and Politics: JACK BARBASH	147
	American Labor in Politics Since the New Deal: HENRY DAVID	156
	Organized Labor as a Pressure Group: AVERY LEISERSON	161
	Part III COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
	A THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
	Introductory	173
	The Nature of Collective Bargaining: ROBERT F. HOXIE	174
	The Collective Bargaining Process: HARRY SHULMAN NEIL W. CHAMBERLAIN	178
	Types of Grievances: U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR	183
	New Patterns of Collective Bargaining: EVERETT M. KASSALOW	186
	The Purposes of Union Penetration into Managerial Functions NEIL W. CHAMBERLAIN	196
	The Scope of Collective Bargaining: ALEXANDER R. HERON	204
	Study on the Management Prerogative Issue: JOHN G. TURNBULL	208
	B COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCEDURE
	Introductory	221
	Multi-Employer Bargaining: FRANK C. PIERSON	222
	Economic Aspects of Industry-wide Bargaining: EDWIN E. WITTE	230
	The Area of Collective Bargaining: LEO WOLMAN	236
	The Future of Pattern Bargaining: GERALD G. SOMERS	240
	The Significance and Function of Mediation: DAVID L. COLE	244
	The Arbitration Process: HARRY SHULMAN	249
	The Administrative Type of Employers' Association: CLARK KERR & LLOYD H. FISHER	253
	C THE CONTENT OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAIN: WAGES
	Introductory	258
	Methods of Remuneration: JOSEPH SHISTER	260
	Wage Determination: Trick or Technique: SOLOMON BARKIN	263
	A Collective Bargaining Approach to Job Evaluation: WILLIAM GOMBERG	268
	Wage Determination Under Collective Bargaining: ARTHUR M. ROSS	274
	The Economics of Annual Improvement Factor Wage Increases: JULES BACKMAN	286
	The Impact of Unions on General Wage Changes: HAROLD M. LEVINSON	289
	Trade-Union Wage Policies: Some Economic Aspects: JOHN T. DUNLOP	294
	Union Wage Decisions and Employment: GEORGE P. SHULTZ & CHARLES A. MEYERS	305
	D THE CONTENT OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAIN: NONWAGE ELEMENTS
	Introductory	314
	A Possible Solution for the Issue of the Closed Shop: PAUL H. DOUGLAS	316
	Control of Layoffs: Policies and Problems: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	329
	The Seniority Problem in Mass Production Industries: FREDERICK H. HARBISON	338
	Make-work Rules and Policies: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	340
	Technological Change -- the Policy of Control: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	344
	Working Rules in the Building Trades: WILLIAM HABER	355
	Union-Management Welfare Plans: ROBERT ROSENTHAL	357
	Labor's Approach to the Retirement Problem: HARRY BECKER	366
	Changing Approaches to Layoff and Recall: ROBERT L. ARONSON	374
	Job Modifications Under Collective Bargaining: RICHARD A. LESTER & ROBERT L. ARONSON	379
	Industrial Jurisprudence: Some General Conclusions: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	381
	E TYPES OF UNION-MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIPS
	Introductory	385
	Varieties of Labor Relations: ENJAMIN M. SELEKMAN	386
	The Dynamics of the Union-Management Relationship: FREDERICK H. HARBISON & JOHN R. COLEMAN	408
	A Successful Union-Management Co-operation Plan: RUSSELL W. DAVENPORT	415
	F COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: A TOTAL EVALUATION
	Introductory	427
	Collective Bargaining and Income Distribution: HAROLD M. LEVINSON	428
	Monopolistic Wage Determination as a Part of the General Problem of Monopoly: FRITZ MACHLUP	434
	Labor Monopoly and Business Monopoly: A Faulty Analogy: RICHARD A. LESTER	444
	Trade-Union Policies and Nonmarket Values: JOSEPH SHISTER	452
	G COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND THE GOVERNMENT
	Introductory	463
	The Conspiracy Doctrine in Collective Bargaining: HARRY A. MILLIS & ROYAL E. MONTGOMERY	465
	Hitchman Coal and Coke Company v. Mitchell: The "Yellow-Dog" Contract (1907-1917): ELIAS LIEBERMAN	469
	The Labor Injunction and its Abuse: CHARLES O. GREGORY	477
	The Impact of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act): HARRY A. MILLIS & EMILY C. BROWN	482
	United States v. Hutcheson: The Protective Wings of the Norris- La Guardia Act (1940-1941): ELIAS LIEBERMAN	493
	The Taft-Hartley Act: An Evaluation of Experience: ARCHIBALD COX	500
	Emergency Disputes: Some Basic Guideposts: JOHN T. DUNLOP	513
	The Limitations of Fact Finding in Industrial Disputes: BRYCE. M. STEWART & WALTER J. COUPER	517
	The Handling of Emergency Disputes: THOMAS KENNEDY	521
	State Labor Relations Acts: CHARLES C. KILLINGSWORTH	528
	The Future of Collective Bargaining: GEORGE W. TAYLOR	537
	Part IV EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
	A THE NATURE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
	Introductory	541
	What is Full Employment?: JOHN M. CLARK	542
	The Social Implications of General Unemployment: HAROLD M. SOMERS	545
	Statistical Data on Employment and Unemployment (4 tables)	546
	B THE CONTROL OF PARTICULAR UNEMPLOYMENT
	Introductory	549
	Adjustments to a Wage Change in the Individual Firm: JOSEPH SHISTER	550
	Unemployment Insurance: ADVISORY COUNCIL ON SOCIAL SECURITY	556
	Technological Unemployment: PAUL H. DOUGLAS & AARON DIRECTOR	568
	The Theory of the Automatic Reabsorption of Technologically Displaced Labor: NATHAN BELFER	581
	C THE CONTROL OF GENERAL UNEMPLOYMENT
	Introductory	586
	How Can We Control General Unemployment?: JOHN M. CLARK	588
	Can We Control General Unemployment Through Wage Policy? DAVID MCCORD WRIGHT	589
	Guaranteed Wages and Employment: ERNEST DALE	594
	Government Policy for Full Employment: "UNITED NATIONS REPORT"	605
	The Employment Act of 1946: FRANK C. PIERSON	613
	Trade-Union Policy Under Full Employment: EUGENE FORSEY	616
	Part V INCOME AND LEISURE SECURITY
	Introductory	631
	The Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation: GEORGE J. STIGLER	632
	The Economics of Minimum Wages: FRED H. BLUM	639
	The Causes of Increases in Real Wages	642
	The Pressing Problem of Old-Age Security: SUMNER H. SLICHTER	645
	Economics Aspects of Aging and Retirement: ROBERT K. BURNS	651
	Hours of Labour: A. C. PIGOU	658
	Appendix	665
	Index	671

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