Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining

by Leo Troy

Overview

The first book to provide a comprehensive examination of nonunion industrial relations — its definition and parameters, and the causes and factors that led to the nonunion reality. Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining focuses on labor relations in the private — sector labor market, which accounted for about 90% of the sector at the end of 1999. Troy discusses with clarity and authority the transformation in the United States from the organized to the private labor market. Within a two-part format, Troy first deals with the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive nonunion alternative and then addresses the all-important question, "What makes the nonunion system work?"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765604699
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1999
Series:	Issues in Work and Human Resources Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Competitive System of Labor Relations; Chapter 2 Setting the Stage for Individual Representation; Chapter 3 Why Contemporary Labor Relations Do Not Reprise the Pre–New Deal Era; Chapter 4 Preference of Workers and Management for the Individual System; Chapter 5 Employee Communication; Chapter 6 Conditions of Employment; Chapter 7 Is There a Third Way?; Chapter 8 The Organized and Individual Systems in the New Millennium; Chapter 9 Highlights and Summary;

Editorial Reviews

Provides an examination of non-union industrial relations<-->definition, parameters, and the causes and factors of the non-union reality. Focusing on labor relations in the private labor market, Troy (economics, Rutgers U.) discusses the transformation in the U.S. from the organized to the private labor market. Within a two-part format, he first deals with the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive non-union alternative and then addresses the all-important question of what makes the non-union system work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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