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Preface | |
1. Contemporary Employment Relations in Historical Perspective | |
The Start of a New Millenium | |
Analyzing "Exceptionalism": Is the United States Different and Why? | |
Studying Work | |
The Nature of Labor Contracts | |
An Overview of This Book | |
Firms and Managers | |
Organized Labor | |
Community Institutions | |
PART I. THE ERA OF MANAGEMENT, 1880 - 1935 | |
2. Industrial Expansion and the Foundations of Unionisms | |
The Rise of Corporations | |
Beginnings of Collective Organization | |
Union Growth and Labor Conflict | |
From Conflict to Cooperation | |
3. Managerial Control and the Beginnings of State Regulation | |
Judges and the Law of Employment Contracts | |
Injunctions and Antitrust | |
Scientific Management and the Efficiency Movement | |
Welfare Capitalism and the Emergence of the Modern Personnel System | |
Workers' Compensation Insurance - An Early Exception to Exceptionalism | |
Summing up the 1920s | |
PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | |
4. The Creation of Federal Labor Policy: World War I Through the New Deal | |
Wartime Policies and the Effect on Collective Bargaining | |
Labor Legislation Before the Wagner Act | |
The National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act of 1935 | |
Social Legislation: Retirement, Unemployment, and Labor Standards | |
The Federal Mandates and the Collective Bargaining Process | |
5. Rise and Decline of the Labor Movement, 1935 - 2000 | |
Founding of the CIO | |
The Supreme Court and the Wagner Act | |
Labor Relations During World War II | |
The Labor Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act, 1947 | |
Cosolidation of Collective Bargaining and Employment Policies | |
Union Decline: 1970s to the Millenium | |
PART III: INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS, 1960s - 2000s | |
6. Protecting Individuals From Discrimination | |
Equal Pay Act | |
Civil Rights Acts | |
Age Discrimination in Employment Act | |
Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 | |
7. Workplace Rights and Benefits | |
Workplace Health and Safety: OSHA | |
Employee Retirement and Income Security Act | |
Health Insurance and Employment | |
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 | |
Exceptions to the Employment At Will Rule | |
PART IV: REBUILDING THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT: PRACTICES, POLICIES, AND POLITICS | |
8. Contemporary Employment Issues | |
Organizational Justice as an Alternative to Litigation | |
Bringing Unions Back In | |
Economic Security for U. S. Workers: Health Insurance, Pensions, and Employment Stability | |
9. Conclusions | |
Back to the Future? | |
The Job Machine in the 2000s | |
A Final Thought | |
Index | |
About the Author |
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