Free Choice for Workers
Title | Free Choice for Workers PDF eBook |
Author | George C. Leef |
Publisher | Jameson Books (IL) |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This is a captivating chronicle of the fifty-year "David-Goliath" struggle between the bosses of Big Labor and Americans opposed to their coercive power.Few Americans realize their freedom to say "no" to compulsory unionism is largely the result of the valiant efforts of the National Right to Work Committee and its Legal Defense Foundation. Big business and the Republican Party have usually avoided the battle, leaving only Right to Work and its hundreds of thousands of grass roots supporters to defend employee freedom to get or keep their jobs without being forced to pay dues or join a union.Leef's narrative covers the New Deal legislation that gave Big Labor its initial monopoly power, and then the inspiring, decades-long struggle in Washington and the states to reduce the abusive power of labor bosses.The book also teaches a crucial lesson for those involved in public policy wars, regardless of their political philosophy -- that principled and dedicated idealists can prevail against strong special interest groups if they fight for a just cause.
Union-free America
Title | Union-free America PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Richards |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Labor movement |
ISBN | 0252032713 |
A stimulating study of how antiunionism has shaped the hearts and minds of American workers
Employee Free Choice Act
Title | Employee Free Choice Act PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The Employee Free Choice Act
Title | The Employee Free Choice Act PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Human Rights Watch |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2011 |
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Workers' Control in America
Title | Workers' Control in America PDF eBook |
Author | David Montgomery |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521280068 |
A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques and includes discussions of various worker and union responses to unemployment.
Workers' Rights as Human Rights
Title | Workers' Rights as Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Gross |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801472626 |
Provides a new perspective on the assessment of U.S. labour relations law by using human rights principles as standards for judgment. Presents recommendations for what should and can be done to bring U.S. labour law into conformity with international human rights standards.
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative
Title | We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | George J. Borjas |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-10-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0393249026 |
From "America’s leading immigration economist" (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration. We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become pervasive. To many modern economists, immigrants are a trove of much-needed workers who can fill predetermined slots along the proverbial assembly line. But this view of immigration’s impact is overly simplified, explains George J. Borjas, a Cuban-American, Harvard labor economist. Immigrants are more than just workers—they’re people who have lives outside of the factory gates and who may or may not fit the ideal of the country to which they’ve come to live and work. Like the rest of us, they’re protected by social insurance programs, and the choices they make are affected by their social environments. In We Wanted Workers, Borjas pulls back the curtain of political bluster to show that, in the grand scheme, immigration has not affected the average American all that much. But it has created winners and losers. The losers tend to be nonmigrant workers who compete for the same jobs as immigrants. And somebody’s lower wage is somebody else’s higher profit, so those who employ immigrants benefit handsomely. In the end, immigration is mainly just another government redistribution program. "I am an immigrant," writes Borjas, "and yet I do not buy into the notion that immigration is universally beneficial…But I still feel that it is a good thing to give some of the poor and huddled masses, people who face so many hardships, a chance to experience the incredible opportunities that our exceptional country has to offer." Whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent, We Wanted Workers is essential reading for anyone interested in the issue of immigration in America today.