TY - BOOK T1 - What Workers Want Y1 - 2006 A1 - R. Freeman A1 - Rogers, J. KW - Cornell University KW - government KW - labor KW - management KW - regulation KW - union KW - workplace AB -

How would a typical American workplace be structured if the employees could design it? According to Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers, it would be an organization run jointly by employees and their supervisors, one where disputes between labor and management would be resolved through independent arbitration. Their groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of employees' attitudes about participation, representation, and regulation on the job.

For the updated edition, the authors have added an introduction showing how recent data have confirmed and strengthened their basic argument. A new concluding chapter lays out the model of "open source unionism" that they propose for rebuilding unionism in the United States, making this updated edition essential for anyone thinking about what labor should be doing to move forward. (publisher's statement)

PB - Cornell University Press CY - Ithaca, NY L2 - eng ER - TY - RPRT T1 - From “Old Red Socks” to Modern Human Resource Managers? The Transformation of Employee Relations in Eastern Germany Y1 - 1994 A1 - L. Turner KW - East Germany KW - economy KW - employee relations KW - GDR KW - German Democratic Republic KW - government AB -

Excerpt] With the dramatic and unexpected opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, began a far-reaching process of transformation in every aspect of society within the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany). Indeed by October 1990, the GDR had been unified with and absorbed into the larger German Federal Republic (the former West Germany) and no longer existed as a separate political entity.1 The basic principle guiding German unification was the replacement of East German laws, institutions, and practices with West German laws, institutions, and practices -- in politics, the economy, and civil society.

JA - CAHRS Working Paper Series PB - Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies CY - Ithaca, NY L2 - eng UR - http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp/253 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Industrial Relations Systems (Revised Edition) Y1 - 1993 A1 - Dunlop, J. T. KW - government KW - industrial relations KW - management KW - policy KW - workers AB -

In this revised edition, John T. Dunlop updates his general theory of industrial relations, describing it as a set of tools for practitioners that can be used to develop new industrial relations systems or to reform existing ones. He also discusses the transformation of the industrial relations systems of the former Soviet Union. Since the initial publication of this work in 1958, a substantial literature has grown up around Dunlop's theory, which provides a framework for analyzing and interpreting the vast and growing body of information about labour relations. (publisher's statement)

PB - Harvard Business School Press CY - Watertown, MA L2 - eng ER -