Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

Richard B. Freeman

ISBN 10: 0226261581 / ISBN 13: 9780226261584

Edité par The University Of Chicago Press Sep 2007, 2007

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Neuware - 'Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century' provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions, the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. 'Emerging Labor Market Institutions' is the story of workers and institutions in flux, searching for ways to represent labor in the new century.

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• Titre: Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
• Éditeur: The University Of Chicago Press Sep 2007
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226261581
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226261584
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 23 L x 15 H x 2 P (en millimètres) 23 millimètres de largeur par 15 millimètres de hauteur par 2 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 510 grammes

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Synopsis

Private sector unionism is in decline in the United States. As a result, labor advocates, community groups, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals concerned with the well-being of workers have sought to develop alternative ways to represent workers' interests. Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to this drastically altered landscape.

This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. The contributors examine the behavior and impact of new organizations that have formed to solve workplace problems and to bolster the position of workers. They also document how unions employ new strategies to maintain their role in the economic system. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions, the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. Emerging Labor Market Institutions is the story of workers and institutions in flux, searching for ways to represent labor in the new century.

À propos des auteurs

Richard B. Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Joni Hersch is professor of law and economics at Vanderbilt University.

Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute. He is the coauthor of The State of Working America.