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Peer reviewedMarshall, Ray – Journal of Economic Education, 1985
Recent trends that affect the U.S. system of industrial relations are examined. The most important of these is internationalization. The U.S. industrial relations system is compared with that of Europe and Japan, and suggestions for improving our competitiveness in international markets are made. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competition, Economics, Global Approach
Peer reviewedHollmann, Robert W. – Employee Relations, 1982
The author describes what American organizations are doing with respect to employees with alcohol, drug, mental, and personality problems and other emotional difficulties affecting job performance. Specifically, this article is devoted to a more thorough description of American employee assistance programs and a discussion of factors that are…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Developed Nations, Drug Abuse, Emotional Adjustment
Download full textSiegel, Irving H.; Weinberg, Edgar – 1982
This book examines the wide range of opportunities, the attendant problems, and the potential benefits of labor-management cooperation. Cooperative arrangements are considered at different economic levels, and 65 cases are discussed. The first of 10 chapters sets up a conceptual framework for the review of American experience in cooperation.…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Cooperation, Economic Development, Employer Employee Relationship
Eiger, Norman – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Describes Sweden's massive effort to bring democracy to the workplace through programs of worker education and participation in industrial decision making. Stresses that the United States can learn much from the Swedish workplace education experience. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employer Employee Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Sterret, Grace; Aboud, Antone – 1982
Since the 1960s, the number of strikes by public employees, especially local government employees, has increased, and the number of employees belonging to unions or associations has about tripled. Recently, attention has been focused on strikes by public employees as a result of the strike in 1981 by air traffic controllers and their subsequent…
Descriptors: Adults, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Social and Labour Bulletin, 1982
This article cites a variety of sources and synthesizes a number of studies on the social implications of technological innovations (microelectronics). These studies were related to six European and Asian countries and were also concerned with the international division of labor. (SSH)
Descriptors: Automation, Career Change, Developed Nations, Economic Development
Delp, Linda, Ed.; Outman-Kramer, Miranda, Ed.; Schurman, Susan J., Ed.; Wong, Kent, Ed. – 2002
These 28 essays recount popular education's history and its multiple uses in the labor movement today: to organize the unorganized, to develop new leaders and activists, and to strengthen labor and community alliances. They explore its other facets: theater and culture, economics education, workplace safety and health, and classroom use and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement
