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This comprehensive text provides the current information on research studies, issues and events in labor relations. The book integrates real-world examples and quotes from practitioners in order to bring this dynamic field to life. The Labor Relations Process examines the labor movement from its inception to current and emerging trends, including such topics as unions, labor agreements, collective bargaining, arbitration and labor relations in various business segments including government, white collar, and international contexts. The book gives an in-depth analysis of all facets of the relationship between management and labor, including a study of the rights and responsibilities of unions and management, the negotiation and administration of labor agreements, and labor-management cooperation. Other topics that are explored include the results of the labor relations process and collective bargaining issues such as health care costs containment, pensions, labor productivity and alternative work arrangements.
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Know how and when to intervene in a functioning group
Finally, a functional guide that focuses on putting the concept of group-process consultation into actual practice! You'll learn how and under what circumstances a process consultant should intervene to make a group's work more effective. Plus, this guide shows you how to help groups identify, diagnose, and resolve problems as they occur! Be an effective process consultant?this handbook helps you:
- Determine the appropriate type and depth of an intervention
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You'll get many real-world examples of how to make critical group concepts work. And you'll get responses to commonly asked questions from working group-process consultants. Intervention Skills is a much-needed guide for the professional consultant, as well as a useful resource for anyone who plays a role in the workings of a small group.
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Tax credits, childcare benefits, school vouchers, flextime for parents, parental leaves--all have spawned what journalist Elinor Burkett calls a "culture of parental privilege." The Baby Boon charts the backlash against this movement and asks for a reevaluation of social policy. Burkett's cause isn't served by her sarcasm, which leads so easily to exaggeration and strained humor. She proposes, for example, that there exists an unwritten but widely understood "Ten Commandments of workplace etiquette in family-friendly America," which includes items such as "Thou shalt volunteer to work late so that mothers can leave at 2:00 p.m. to watch their sons play soccer" and "Thou shalt never ask for a long leave to write a book, travel, or fulfill thy heart's desire because no desire other than children could possibly be worth thy company's inconvenience." Burkett is more convincing when citing real-life examples, such as a legal secretary who applied for flextime and was told that benefit was available only to parents, or the case of Sarah, a childless travel agent in Seattle who invented a fake daughter, put her picture on her desk at work, and proceeded to take long lunches ("trips to the pediatrician") and leave work early for "family emergencies." Ironically, as Burkett describes, it was the search for equity that inspired the various pro-parent benefits of the "family-friendly workplace." A new attention to childless workers does seem to be in order--permitting them to substitute some benefits for others, for instance, or to receive bonuses instead, and to work in environments that support their choices not to have children. --Regina Marler
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Who stays late at the office when Mom leaves for a soccer match? Whose dollars pay for the tax credits, childcare benefits, and school vouchers that only parents can utilize? Who is forced to take those undesirable weekend business trips that Dad refuses? The answer: Adults without children -- most of them women -- have shouldered more than their share of the cost of family-friendly America. Until now.
"Equal Pay for Equal Work" is one of the foundations of modern American work life. But workers without children do not reap the same rewards as do their colleagues who are parents. Instead, as veteran journalist Elinor Burkett reveals, the past decade has seen the most massive redistribution of wealth since the War on Poverty -- this time not from rich to poor but from nonparents, no matter how modest their means, to parents, no matter how affluent. Parents today want their child and their Lexus, too -- which accounts for the new culture of parental privilege that Burkett aptly calls "the baby boon."
Burkett reports from the front lines of the workplace: from the hallowed newsroom of The New York Times to the floor of a textile factory in North Carolina to a hospital in Boston. She exposes a simmering backlash against perks for parents, from workers who are losing their tempers and fighting for their rights. She spells out how tax breaks for families with six-figure incomes are not available to childless people earning half as much. And she tells the dramatic story of how pro-family conservatives and feminists became strange bedfellows on the issue of pro-family rights, leading to an increase in workplace and government entitlements for parents -- at the same time as the childless poor lost their public benefits.
Americans are on a demographic collision course between the growing numbers of mothers in the workforce and the swelling ranks of a new interest group: childless adults. Armed with hard data and grassroots reporting, Elinor Burkett points the way to a more equitable future. With an inside look at what some companies are already doing to redress the grievances of childless workers and a hard assessment of what the truly needy -- children and adults -- require in order to survive, Burkett fires the first shot in the battle to come.
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Brilliant, But With An Achilles' Heel.......2007-09-26
Elinor Burkett is my favorite "issues" writer. She maps the connections between policy, ideology and activism like nobody else. She can be likable and funny and even respectful while debunking the pretensions and prejudices that stand in the way of social justice. And it almost goes without saying that she is pretty fearless: she's a grand, politically incorrect narrative-buster in an age when more and more of the media seems to be resorting to tired pieties of all stripes. All of which makes it doubly disappointing when her message seems to stray into the same emotional, impossible-to-defend territory that she punctures in others.
The dual premise of this book is that "middle-class" mothers are greedily taking resources that should be used for poor mothers and children, AND that the people they are receiving these resources from are childless middle-class women and men who would be willing to offer these resources to the poor, but not to other middle-class mothers.
The idea that poor women and children are somehow not only deprived of financial support but specifically deprived by middle-class mommies is just wrongheaded. Those reliant on social services -- welfare recipients -- are a burden on society primarily because they don't form two-parent households. Having worked in social services for twenty years, I can't think of many welfare recipients I've met who don't maintain relationships with their childrens' fathers but also don't formalize those relationships -- by choice -- so they can continue living off tax dollars instead. If you're going to write an entire book about the needs of poor families, it's willfully blind to ignore this reality, unpleasant as it may be. And if you blame somebody else in these parents' steads, that's just scapegoating.
As a childless person, I certainly do resent having to pay more than my share. I'm not denying that childless people get short shrift. But it's the social, and medical, and crime-related problems created by the underclass that actually impacts my community, my quality of life, and my assets. Furthermore, I don't know many so-called middle-class people today who have health insurance they can count on, or afford -- yet the families on welfare I see have excellent and more-accessible healthcare than I do. We've created a system that benefits only the wealthy and those who won't support themselves: anyone in-between is getting screwed. Why blame this on middle-class mothers? I gave the book high marks anyway because the discussion is compelling. But its foundational economic argument simply doesn't ring true.
It's Growing On Me!.......2007-05-16
I very much have a love/hate relationship with The Baby Boon as in I loved the second half and hated the first. Burkett explores an immense list of how the childless are "cheated" and if nothing else it's great food for thought. The politics in the book are definitely slanted and in more than 200 pages of how the government misaddresses these family issues she only mentions the Christian right three times (the same amount of time she happens to mention father's raping daughters). Overall, the book targets how family progressive taxes, fundings, and institutions target the middle class (who for the most part parent by choice) who really don't need the help compared to the poor. And that a good chunk of the support for the taxes, fundings, and institutions come from the childfree - a hugely growing part of the American population. I do confess that my relationship with this book really began to flounder 50-pages in when I saw the ever lovely Ann Coulter featured on the back for "advance praise."
I find the book problematic because much of the research is simply lousy. For example, in the first half of the book she visits a textile factory in North Carolina that had one one of the best child/daycares available for parents. To display how unwanted this is and what a burden some workers find this to be (as without the daycare everyone would roughly make a $1 more per hour, and Burkett insists that the poor and people of color don't ever use the day care) she goes to an unnamed grocery store and speaks with four unnamed women. In the world of research, I'm not really buying into this and couldn't get over why couldn't she have found four people willing to give their names or at least be able to back up the claim through attending some form of union or auxiliary meeting. At times like this the research really seemed to lack substance.
After the research, a point she belabors through the book is how parental tax breaks targets the middle class and doesn't help those who most need it (i.e. the poor). While a good point she never provides any examples or goes into it more than this. Instead, she discusses how childfree professor are cheated because those professors with children can enroll their children for free. The question: why can't childfree professors utilize this free enrollment as well for nieces and nephews, or even to give away as a scholarship? Certainly an interesting question but what percentage of childfree people does this effect and unless these scholarships would specifically go to the poor - what about them?
Because of the research and choice of examples it was difficult reading but half way in I increasingly found myself pleasantly surprised. Burkett started to provide more substance and cultivated her argument within the second half. She begins to explore the social stigma of being childfree, certain workplace activities that are clearly biased, as well as a list of companies that have remedied certain politics to be more considered of the childfree. One idea throughout the whole book was the concept of family and what exactly it means. A problem she discusses is that the nuclear family is still privileged in comparison to any non-traditional family. At times I was concerned the book was taking on an anti-family edge but it was salvaged by the end. Not a bad read, but a lot of technical and statistical information that I honestly don't trust to be 100% accurate simply based on some of her research.
Baby Boon book.......2007-04-11
Book in very good condition, priced nice and low. Used for a book club. I enjoyed viewpoint of author but not everyone in our book club did even though none of us have or plan to have children!
Missing Pages!.......2007-01-17
This is an excellently crafted book, but there are two places in which the printer left out pages, for instance I see page 54 after reading page 51. This amounts to four missing pages. When I complained to Amazon about the missing pages, they just sent me another copy -- with the same error. I'm keeping it to pass on to someone else, even though they will be charging me for it.
Well-crafted, well-researched and fair-minded........2006-05-11
Ms. Burkett's main issue is with handouts based solely on procreation, without regard to income. Even if you beleive in the socialist ideal of giving according to one's need, and therefore handing money and higher benefits packages to parents, Ms. Burkett makes you think twice about how our current structure gives those perks to the wealthy, at the expense of the childless of all income levels. Even socialism cannot justify that.
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Compiled by members of the Midwest Academy this book is a bible for anyone who wants to effectively organize to change the quality of their lives or the lives of others. Now in its third edition this book has already sold 60,000 copies in all of its editions since 1991. With new information on the trends, technology, and concerns of the new millennium, this edition of Organizing for Social Change will help concerned citizens bring about needed changes by learning from the experiences of those who have succeeded.
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Not as good as their old mimeographs.......2005-09-09
This book is disappointing. While it may help a college student or other really new person grasp some of the concepts of organizing it is not useful to practioners.
The Midwest Academy used to have a very good training manual covering many issues. As the book got slicker looking the information got worse.
Get Shel Trapp's old Basics of Organizing instead - much more useful, and free on the internet.
This is it!.......2002-04-13
This manual takes you through waht you need to know about organizing. From strategy development to research to implementation, this book shows you how to do it. Well written and simple to understand. Outstanding reference for novice to experienced organizer.
The best purchase you can make and you won't need to buy others.
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- A little outdated!
- Should be able to pass the Excelsior exam....
- Managed to stay Awake....
- Excellent review of labor relations
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This comprehensive text provides the latest information available on current research studies, issues and events in labor relation. The book integrates real-world examples and quotes from practitioners in order to bring the dynamics of the field to life. Labor Relations Process examines the labor movement from its inception to current and emerging trends, including such topics as unions, labor agreements, collective bargaining and labor relations in various business segments including government, white collar non-traditional and foreign. The book gives an in-depth analysis of the complete relationship between management and labor are fully explored, including an examination of the rights and responsibilities of unions and management and negotiation and administration of labor agreements. Other topics that are explored include the results of the labor relations process and collective bargaining issues as well as the labor relations process to different work arrangements.
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A little outdated!.......2007-05-07
Nice text book, but there are some things that are outdated. But still a good reference book!
Should be able to pass the Excelsior exam...........2004-08-17
Although I never actually read the whole book (I didn't have to take the test because I finished the degree requirements), this book should contain everything you need to ace the Excelsior College Exam (ECE) in Labor Relations. The ECE Labor Relations Content guide even breaks down what will be on the test by chapter.
Managed to stay Awake...........2001-10-10
Well, I must admit I thought that this book would be BORING, but it was actually pretty interesting. I was surprised. It had a lot of information about unions, and I was able to form a non-biased opinion about them from this book. It is worth the read if you want to know more about the Labor Relations Process.
Excellent review of labor relations.......2000-08-16
Mind you - I am a bit prejudiced because William Holley was largely responsible for my interest in Human Resources while at Auburn UniverSity. This book is an exceptional review of the whole Labor Ralations history and processes. It is a great reference book for HR professionals covering all of the legal aspects of labor relations.
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This volume explains why some contemporary Latin American labor-based parties adapted successfully to the challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline. It argues that loosely structured party organizations tend to be more flexible than the bureaucratic structures found in most labor-based parties. The argument is illustrated through an analysis of the Argentine (Peronist) Justicialista Party (PJ). The book shows how PJ's fluid internal structure allowed it to adapt and transform itself from a union-dominated populist party into a vehicle for carrying out radical market-oriented economic reforms.
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Essential to understanding Latin American politics as they were and as they are today.......2007-01-07
A wonderfully well written book with plenty of valuable insights. I am a politics and Latin American studies major at Brandeis University in my senior year. This book was assigned for a class that focused on Argentina and Brazil, but I did not notice its value until this year when I took a social movements class that covered the entirety of Latin America. This book is essential towards understanding the old Populism, social movements and authoritarian regimes of the mid 1900's - early 1980's, and finally the implementation of neoliberalist policies with a focus on Menem and his values versus those of the Partido Justalista (PJ). The social movements class did not focus on Argentina (except for Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo), but I ended up using this book for all three papers (and it wasn't even required reading for the class). Out of all the books I've read on Latin America, I've made it a point to hold on to at least two specific books. This book is one of those books. The other is "Theorizing Social Movements" by Joe Foweraker.
detailed analysis.......2005-08-26
In Europe and Australia, left wing and trade union dominated parties have regularly come to power. Usually, this has necessitated an accomodation with the prevailing capitalist structure of their countries.
But what about the experience in South America? Levitsky studies in detail the Peronist Party of Argentina. With a storied populist past, that some might call demagogue inspired. He finds the party quite adaptable to a neoliberal zeitgeist. This is correlated with long term structural changes in the Argentine economy that reduced the direct influence of the trade unions.
The book shows very detailed analysis, backed by considerable quantitative data.
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Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?
Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process. Manufacturing Consent is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier. Burawoy traces the technical, political, and ideological changes in factory life to the transformations of the market relations of the plant (it is now part of a multinational corporation) and to broader movements, since World War II, in industrial relations.
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Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal antagonist—northeastern monopolistic industrial and financial capital—despite weak electoral support from organized labor.
Based on new evidence from legislative records and other sources, Sanders shows that this tenuous alliance of "producers versus plutocrats" shaped early regulatory legislation, remained powerful through the populist and progressive eras, and developed a characteristic method of democratic state expansion with continued relevance for subsequent reform movements.
Roots of Reform is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucial period of American political development.
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In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to Sweeney's leadership threatened to divide the labor movement.
In The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, Peter L. Francia discusses the effects of Sweeney's controversial tenure as president and assesses labor's influence on American political elections and legislation. Drawing on interviews with union and business leaders, as well as campaign-finance and public-opinion data, Francia argues that Sweeney has employed a more effective and expansive grassroots political operation than his predecessors. He challenges critics who dismiss Sweeney's efforts as a failure but cautions that the decline in union membership presents a serious crisis for the labor movement.
When unions emphasize "grassroots" strategies they can effectively compete against the financial power of big business and can make a significant difference in congressional politics. Francia analyzes organized labor's political activities, its coalitions with other interest groups, and its influence on voter turnout, election results, and votes in Congress. He also examines the effects of Sweeney's embrace of progressive causes and labor's increasing willingness to challenge Democrats who vote against labor's interests.
For all his successes, Sweeney's tenure has not been without its problems. Labor's presence in American politics is threatened by shrinking membership in unions. Francia suggests that if unions want to remain a viable political force in congressional politics, they must devote more resources to organizing workers.
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Well Thought Out Analysis.......2006-04-06
F.D.R. was able to put together a coalition that enabled the Democratic party to win the presidency several times since. But it now appears that the old grouping has lost a lot of its power. This book discusses the effect of the unions falling membership and falling influence in the political process.
Much of the book is on the efforts of John Sweeney who was elected to the presidency of the AFL-CIO with the platform of increasing political power. His actions towards increasing grass roots efforts have indeed led to greater political impact for unions on a member by member basis. However the overall and continuing decline in membership is creating a limitation on just how much power they can exert.
Mr. Francia was a political worker for the union for a time, and has continued to be interested in union politics. He is also an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University.
It's interesting reading. It promises to be an interesting few years in the political process of the country. The country seems quite annoyed with Bush, but didn't elect many Democrats.
Very good contribution.......2006-02-15
The political activities of organized labor and their impact in American politics have received very little attention from political scientists. This is a pity given the important role that organized labor still plays in American elections. The Francia book takes a much-needed look at this subject by comparing the leadership of the AFL-CIO under the two different presidencies of Lane Kirkland and John Sweeney. The book demonstrates that Sweeney's emphasis on grassroots strategies (or what Sweeney calls "People Power") has helped organized labor remain a viable political force despite declines in union density. While there are some points that the author could have expanded upon, the book is still very good and definitely worth reading.
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Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalizing World
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Given the transformations taking place in many parts of Southeast Asia, the question of labor remains as pertinent today as it ever has been. Labor issues are central to the social tensions marking the transformations taking place in both rural and urban areas, and underscore the myriad ways people have responded to economic and political crisis. In seeking to understand the multiple and specific dimensions of labor across a range of time-frames (colonial and contemporary), economic sectors, labor processes and community contexts. In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks, and contrasting labor regimes, histories and cultures. The contributions show the importance of critically examining both the complex nature of global-local links and the particular ways economic processes are around the themes of labor regimes, labor processes, labor mobility and labor communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning.
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