Author: Charles Norman FayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Labor in Politics; Or, Class Versus Country
Author: Charles Norman FayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Once and Future Worker
Author: Oren CassPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641770155
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
“[Cass’s] core principle—a culture of respect for work of all kinds—can help close the gap dividing the two Americas....” – William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. These woes are not the inevitable result of irresistible global and technological forces. They are the direct consequence of a decades-long economic consensus that prioritized increasing consumption—regardless of the costs to American workers, their families, and their communities. Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency focused attention on the depth of the nation’s challenges, yet while everyone agrees something must change, the Left’s insistence on still more government spending and the Right’s faith in still more economic growth are recipes for repeating the mistakes of the past. In this groundbreaking re-evaluation of American society, economics, and public policy, Oren Cass challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from to reveal how we lost our way. The good news is that we can still turn things around—if the nation’s proverbial elites are willing to put the American worker’s interests first. Which is more important, pristine air quality, or well-paying jobs that support families? Unfettered access to the cheapest labor in the world, or renewed investment in the employment of Americans? Smoothing the path through college for the best students, or ensuring that every student acquires the skills to succeed in the modern economy? Cutting taxes, expanding the safety net, or adding money to low-wage paychecks? The renewal of work in America demands new answers to these questions. If we reinforce their vital role, workers supporting strong families and communities can provide the foundation for a thriving, self-sufficient society that offers opportunity to all.
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Author: Barry EidlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106702
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Why are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries' many similarities?
Monthly Labor Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Labor in Politics
Author: Charles Norman FayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Labor in Politics, Or, Class Versus Country
Author: Charles Norman FayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Capital Moves
Author: Jefferson CowiePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723561
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Author: Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General CounselPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2116
Book Description