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"Legitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideological support, members, and access to funds. Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow use the concept of legitmacy as a lens through which to understand the steady decline in union size and influence and to suggest new strategies for union revitalization."
"Chaison and Bigelow relate legitimacy to five case studies: the UPS strike, the organization of clerical workers at Harvard, the...
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"Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture confronts one of the most vexing questions with which labor activists and labor academics struggle: why is there so much opposition to organized labor in the United States? Scholars often point to powerful obstacles from employers or governmental policies, but Lawrence Richards offers a more complete picture of the causes for union decline in the postwar period by examining the attitudes of the workers...
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"The pursuit of E pluribus unum - "from many, one"--The motto on which the United States was founded, has continually posed one of the greatest challenges our presidents have faced throughout history. How does the presidency foster a spirit of unity among all Americans despite so many divergent interests and backgrounds? In this singular study, accomplished storyteller and professor of English Wayne Fields examines this rhetorical tug-of-war through...
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Bibliographical footnotes. Causes of the American Civil War / John L. Motley -- Right of secession / Joel Parker -- Great drama; an appeal to Maryland / John P. Kennedy -- The War : its cause and remedy; immediate emanipation : the only wise and safe mode / Lewis Tappan -- Letter of Archbishop Hughes to Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina / John J. Hughes -- Brownson on the rebellion / Orestes A. Brownson -- Captain Maury's letter on American affairs....
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This book offers an extensive survey and synthesis of the economic literature on trade unions and collective bargaining and their impact on micro-and macro-economic outcomes. The authors demonstrate the effects of collective bargaining in different country settings and time periods. A comprehensive reference, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of labor policy as well as to policy makers and anyone with an interest in the economic...
12) Union Pacific
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The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry, today. The driving of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the transformation of the United States from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.
13) Union Time
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Workers of the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina engage in a 16-year-long struggle for the right to unionize and ultimately win.
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From the back cover: "Unions and Right-to-Work Laws" documents the impact of liberalizing labour markets on investment, productivity, profitability, and job growth. It also provides guidelines for enacting labour market reform in Canada. The labour market reforms recommended in this book reflect the experience of countries with some of the best job creation records. Unless some of the rigidities in Canada's labour market are eliminated, high levels...
20) The Union war
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Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War, by its division, its bloodshed, and its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as the author shows in this revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, he demonstrates that what...
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