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  • - Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work
    av Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
    310,-

    Examines the period from 1920 to 1940 during which the shorter hour movement ended and the drive for economic expansion through increased work took over. This book traces the political, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress from dreams of leisure in which to pursue the higher things in life to an obsession.

  • - The Economic and Social Impacts of Unemployment Insurance-Supported Work Sharing
    av Fred Best
    782,-

    International competition and variable economic conditions have brought the threat of layoffs to the doorsteps of workers and managers in all sectors of our economy. One response to this problem is Unemployment Insurance-Supported Work Sharing. This book provides a balanced assessment of this policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

  • - Women Workers at GTE Lenkurt
    av Steve Fox
    336 - 773,-

    In 1971, when General Telephone and Electric relocated its GTE Lenkurt plant to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city fathers were elated. GTE Lenkurt became the largest manufacturing employer in the state. This title uncovers 200 GTE workers (95 per cent of them women, 70 per cent of them Hispanic), each of them had an array of health problems.

  • - The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement
    av H Green
    336,-

    In December of 1984, the members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local P-9 initiated a campaign against wage and benefit concessions at Geo A Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota. This book offers the insider's account of this watershed strike.

  • - North American Labor Movements Respond
    av J Jenson
    759,-

    Discusses how labor should respond to "restructuring," a euphemistic term for the economic squeeze on workers for givebacks to avoid plant closings and for the business efforts to abolish union workforces.

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