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Peer reviewedBlanton, Jack C.; Burnett, Collins W. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1979
The five issues presented here are keys to understanding how collective bargaining affects colleges and universities. (MM)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Van der Werf, Martin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Discusses the rapid growth of the Workers Rights Consortium, a student-originated group with 44 member institutions which opposes sweatshop labor conditions especially in the apparel industry. Notes disagreements about the number of administrators on the board of directors and about the role of industry representives. Compares this group with the…
Descriptors: Activism, Higher Education, Labor Conditions, Labor Problems
Peer reviewedLesh, Bruce – OAH Magazine of History, 1999
Describes a lesson plan that utilizes two primary sources, a handbill announcing the reduction in Baltimore and Ohio rail workers' wages and a list of damages to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad property, in order to determine the causes and effects of the Rail Strike of 1877. Provides the two sources and other handouts. (CMK)
Descriptors: Corporations, Economic Factors, Labor Problems, Labor Standards
Download full textWorld Confederation of Labour, Brussels (Belgium). – 1974
According to its president, Marcel Pepin, the World Confederation of Labour (W.C.L.) offers man a way to follow his ideals of fraternity and solidarity within an intellectual framework open to discussion and world-wide point of view. The W. C. L. has tried in recent years to become in particular a mouthpiece for workers in underdeveloped…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, International Crimes, International Law, International Organizations
