Unions in America

unions in america

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Book Description
Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America’s labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary Chaison portrays America’s unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to regain their lost membership, bargaining power, and political influence. This accessible textbook offers an impartial overview of American unions that ranges from the struggle for recognition from employers in their earliest years to their present-day difficulties.  

Key Features:

Provides a clear and unbiased view of unions, to present readers with an impartial perspective
Offers readers a current assessment of unions with recent examples and descriptions of emerging or continuing trends in organizing, collective bargaining, and political action
Provides a concise overview of unions that introduces readers to fundamental union activities without overwhelming them with too many details about alternative process, outcomes, and legal issues
Covers a wide-range of important topics such as the evolution of unions; union structure and growth; union government and administration; the union as bargaining agent; union political activities; proposals for union revival, and insight on the future of unions

Unions in America is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students studying unions and labor relations in a variety of fields including Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Economics, and Sociology. It will also be a valuable resource for workers, managers, or anyone else looking for a foundation for understanding the state of unions in America.

About the Author

Gary Chaison is professor of industrial relations at the Graduate School of Management of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Before coming to Clark 25 years ago, Professor Chaison was on the faculty of the School of Administration of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  He has a Ph.D. in industrial relations from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has been the areas of union structure, government and growth, collective bargaining, and international labor relations. He has published extensively on the determinants of union growth in the United States and Canada, and the causes and consequences of union mergers in the United States as well as several other countries. Professor Chaison is the co-author of Unions and Legitimacy (Cornell, 2002) and the author of Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries (Cornell 1996) and When Unions Merge (Lexington, 1986), as well as a number of articles in industrial relations journals.  Recently, he has written about the impact of information technology on unions, the prospects for union revival, and the behavioral dimensions of union mergers.  He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in human resource management, industrial relations, international labor relations, discrimination in employment, the contemporary workplace, and collective bargaining.

Unions in America,Gary N. Chaison,Sage Publications, Inc,0761930345,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Government - U.S. Government,Industrial relations,Industries - General,Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions,Labor unions,Politics / Current Events,United States,Business & Economics / Industries

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