Author: Paul M. OngPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Unions and technological efficiency in auto and steel
Author: Paul M. OngUnions and Technological Efficiency in Auto and Steel
Author: Paul M. OngTechnological Change, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Efficiency
Author: Paul WillmanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Industrial efficiency
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Assessing the reaction of trade unions to innovation, this revisionist study asserts that unions do not, in fact, obstruct change as often as is commonly assumed. In a detailed analysis of industrial innovations and labor relations, Willman examines three major industries that have experienced abnormal problems in both the U.S. and Great Britain: the port, newspaper, and automotive industries. The explanation for this pattern isolates the close relationship--in the U. S. and Great Britain--between technological and organized change.
Productivity Bargaining
Author: E. Owen SmithPublisher: Pan
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Case study of productivity-based collective bargaining in the iron and steel industry of the UK to illustrate its effects on economic growth and wage structure - covers the role of trade unions, labour force problems, competition, the elimination of restrictive practices, etc. Bibliography pp. Xi to xiv and statistical tables.
Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
Author: Francesco DevicientiPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to get reliable estimates of technical efficiency at the firm level in a standard first stage. We devote particular attention to the specific technology adopted, by distinguishing 20 different sector frontiers, as well as to the presence of outliers.The obtained efficiency scores are analyzed in a second stage applying a truncated regression model estimated via Maximum Likelihood, following the Simar and Wilson (2007, 2011) methodology. Our results highlight that the presence of workplace unionization decreases the level of technical efficiency, while aspects limiting the unions' power such as a strong exposure to international markets, high debt levels or the prevalence of flexible assets partially reduce the negative effect. However, when firms adopt decentralized labor contracts agreements, the effect on efficiency is positive and partially compensates the negative unions' effect. The results are robust to the inclusion of many firm characteristics and to different model specifications.
Democracy at Work
Author: Lowell TurnerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173900X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
West Germany from 1949 to 1990 was a story of virtually unparalleled political and economic success. This economic miracle incorporated a well-functioning political democracy, expanded to include a social partnership system of economic representation. Then the Wall came down. Economic crisis in the East—industrial collapse, massive layoffs, a demoralized workforce—triggered gloomy predictions. Was this the beginning of the end for the widely admired German model? Lowell Turner has extensively researched the German transformation in the 1990s. Indeed, in 1993 he was at the factory gates at Siemens in Rostock for the first major strike in post-Cold War eastern Germany. In that strike, and in a series of other incisively analyzed workplace and job developments in eastern Germany, he shows the remarkable resilience and flexibility of the German social partnership and the contribution of its institutions to unification. His controversial and, to some, radical findings will stimulate debate at home and abroad. Moving from world markets to the shop floor, this book is an ambitious and comprehensive analysis of the fate of contemporary unions in industrial societies. The international results of intensified competition and technological advance have stimulated much policy debate, but Lowell Turner is interested in clarifying a phenomenon that is far less widely understood: the political effects of new work organization on labor and management. Noting that the same cluster of production innovation and technological change has produced widely contrasting crossnational industrial relations outcomes, Turner provides a detailed, systematic study of the politics of new work organization at selected auto plants in the United States and Germany. He then examines in a more schematic fashion the telecommunications and apparel industries of those countries, as well as developments elsewhere. Exploring diverse patterns of union-management relations, he demonstrates the importance of existing national institutions and patterns of labor-management-state bargaining as sources of variation in work reorganization and in the collective representation of workers' interests. Particular national institutions of worker interest representation, he argues, shape managerial decisions and hence national industry responses to intensified competition in world markets. His industry-by-industry comparison explains why the American labor movement has declined in influence over the last decade, while the labor movements in Germany and several other countries have not. Further observations on the situation in Britain, Italy, Sweden, and Japan give depth and specificity to the terms of his argument. Most important, perhaps, Turner's analysis shows the conditions necessary for stable industrial relations settlements and a resurgence of union influence in the contemporary world economy. As interest grows in international business and comparative industrial relations, Democracy at Work will attract the attention of political scientists, economists, sociologists, and industrial and labor relations specialists, as well as representatives of labor, business, and government.
American Engineer and Railroad Journal
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Trade-union Policy and Technological Change
Author: Harry OberPublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Impact of Labor Unions on the Rate and Direction of Technological Innovation
Author: Doris B. McLaughlinPublisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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