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Employers have long turned to behavioral science for guidance on
making their organizations more effective. Labor scholar Paul F.
Clark believes union leaders should also take advantage of the
valuable discoveries made in this field, and he offers a
straightforward account of how they can do so. Much of the
behavioral science research relevant to unions relies on complex
statistical analyses and is disseminated through scholarly
journals. This clearly written book makes the findings of
behavioral science accessible to those committed to building a
stronger labor movement. It describes behavioral science's
understanding of such topics as organizational commitment and
member participation and suggests how this knowledge can best be
applied to unions. Building More Effective Unions offers practical
strategies unions can use to their advantage in a number of areas,
including: -Union participation -Organization and retention -Union
orientation and socialization -Political action -Grievance
procedures -Information and communications -Union image-building
-Union culture -Union leadership The book features examples of how
unions and their leaders have benefited from putting the principles
of behavioral science into practice.
Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under
siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including
the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward
unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes.
This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major
industries airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels
and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports,
telecommunications, and trucking to gain insight into the
challenges the parties face and how they have responded to those
challenges.The authors suggest that collective bargaining is
evolving differently across the industries studied. While the
forces constraining bargaining have not abated, changes in the
global environment, including new security considerations, may
create opportunities for unions. Across the industries, one thing
is clear private-sector collective bargaining is rapidly changing."
More than any other labor victory of the 1930s, the emergence of
the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee symbolized the rise of
organized labor to a position of power in the United States. Yet,
as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, the unionization of
the steel industry, and most notably the role of SWOC and Philip
Murray in that process, has received far less attention than it
deserves. Beginning with a discussion of why the unionization of
steel has been relatively neglected by labor historians, the
contributors to this volume analyze early organizing efforts in
steel, the major transformations wrought and felt by the union, and
the character of the union members and leaders. Critical throughout
is discussion of the role of Philip Murray in shaping the United
Steelworkers of America into one of the premier economic, social,
and political institution of the war years and beyond.
Contributors: David Brody, Malvyn Dubovsky, Ronald L. Filippelli,
Mark McColloch, Ronald W. Schatz
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