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Labor Union Voting Behavior in America, 1952-1964
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Determinants of labor union members' satisfaction with their unions
This study investigates the determinants of union members' satisfaction with their unions. Two theories of member satisfaction are formulated. In the first, satisfaction is hypothesized to be a function of specific union performances. The second theory relates satisfaction to the relationship …
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Contest, social valuation and change in American labor-union organizing, 1961-2004
… to the formal procedures by which American labor unions enroll new members and the subsequent meanings and purposes that potential members and third parties attribute to unions. In the first essay I use a new, multi-stage model of union organizing to demonstrate that previous research has …
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Radical women of Texas during the Great Depression: An overview of communism and labor union activities
… of the diversity of agitators within the Texas labor movements in the 1930's as activists fighting for the conditions and rights of workers. While all three were involved in union organizing, which sought effective workers' rights, only Tenayuca joined the Communist Party to accomplish these …
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The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union
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Labor unions and shareholder activism: Union and firm characteristics in determining shareholder activism, resolution outcomes, and firm targets among labor union pension funds
This dissertation examines the role of labor unions, via their pension funds, as shareholder activists in corporate America. For decades unions have struggled to regain their strength as representatives of the American worker, and since the turn of the 21st century they have found a creative new …
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Employment of the handicapped: operational forces influencing advocacy efforts of labor and management representatives
… of work, handicapped adults have the lowest labor force participation rates and lowest earnings within the classifications of age, sex, race, and education. Many research studies have examined elements which contribute to this bleak picture, but none have investigated the advocacy role of …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
<p>Re-allocation of labor from less productive sectors to more productive sectors is essential in attaining economic growth. Because only some developing countries achieve productive labor re-allocation, it is important to address the determinant of productive labor re-allocation. Based on this …
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Analysis of Union Safety: Determining Relationships between Union Membership and Injury and Fatality Rates
<p>In under two centuries the labor union transformed the American workplace, improving wages, benefits, employee engagement, and safety. In more recent years, the government and other organizations have caught up in focusing on safety. Countless studies have been conducted and determined that …
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Taking an occupational lens to worker voice and preference for labor representation
Union density declined as the U.S. economy shifted away from production and membership rates stagnated or declined in the growing service or knowledge sector occupations. Recent collective actions among these occupations including union organizing, protests, and petitions suggest a potential …
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A study of grievance procedure dimensionality in a non-union setting
The purpose of this study was to analyze a nonunion grievance procedure and its relationship to employee attitudes toward their jobs and toward unionization. The analysis had three main focuses of concern. First, an investigation was made of the underlying dimensions of grievance procedures. …
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Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Labor
… the interaction between corporate finance and labor market. It contains three chapters. Chapter 1 studies the strategic role of debt structure in improving the bargaining position of a firm's management relative to its non-financial stakeholders. Debt structure is essential for strategic …
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Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)
… view, the combination of sustained activism, labor union support, and enduring leadership of King, opened the possibility of building a multiracial working-class coalition. Bayard Rustin, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1912, was an unlikely strategist for the Southern Civil Rights …
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
… and a window of opportunity for the burgeoning union movement during the New Deal. The ANG stepped into that historical moment and attempted to formulate a new idea of professional journalism, an institution sustained by a labor union, rather than a commercial trusteeship. It was an attempt to …
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Can the LCCU & 1199SEIU be partners?
… is a successful community development credit union that delivers financial products and financial education programs to a fast growing low-income Latino community. Based in New York City, New York, 1199SEIU is a successful local labor union that organizes low-income workers to negotiate fair …
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The Geographies of the $15 Wage Movement: New Union Campaigns, Mobility Politics, and Local Minimum Wage Policies
… fieldwork and 101 interviews with policymakers, labor union staff, and activists, it argues that the $15 wage movement is an example of a broader shift in labor organizing that has taken root in the last decade, which takes labor organizing out of its traditional location within workplaces and …
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Impact of trade union on improving employees working conditions: The case study of COTWU and TUGHE
Labour Union are legal organizations that consist of a group workers who have banded together to bargain with employers on behalf of workers. The primary role of labour unions is to fight for better rights, working condition, wages, hours and benefits for workers. The aim objective of this study …
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Reluctant realists: the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, federal labor standards and union legislation during the New Deal
… lumber industry and its response to New Deal labor standards and labor union legislation. The Northwest lumber industry during the 1920s and 1930s was beset by the problems of overproduction and cut throat competition which plagued much of American industry during the Great Depression. …
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Determinants of total bargaining outcomes in the open-shop environment
Today, labor union membership has dropped to its lowest level in over 40 years. Attempts to boost aggregate union membership through large scale organizing drives have largely failed. This has placed a great deal of pressure on unions to provide services to existing union members. This would seem …
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Does training matter? : construction quality for a new start transit system : the case of Tren Urbano
… projects, a limitation or lack of skilled labor can exacerbate those risks. This thesis examines the case of Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a rapid rail project currently being constructed in an area with limited on-island experience in the design, construction, operation or …
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