Hogler Employment Relations in the United States

Law, Policy, and Practice
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-5443-4026-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, EPUB

Employment is closely connected to wealth, status, and security and is therefore a subject of interest across a range of academic disciplines.
Employment Relations in the United States incorporates a wealth of research material from these different specialties to provide a historical perspective on the American workplace and the evolution of legal policies affecting employment. The analysis follows both a chronological and thematic arrangement, beginning with the importance of management practices, the growth of labor organizations and the impact of collective bargaining on employment institutions, and the subsequent rise of individual employment rights enforced through administrative and judicial means. Through its evolutionary approach, the book explains the fragmented, overlapping, and conceptually confusing regulatory environment governing workplace relations. It offers an integrated approach to such important contemporary policy issues as health care coverage, pensions, and effective dispute procedures. The book provides an analytical framework for an understanding of the unique nature of our labor markets and the role of government, employers, and unions.  


Key Features   


Provides students with the historical background they need to understand how the U.S. system developed and how it differs from systems in other industrialized nations 
Discusses individual employment rights, including protection from discrimination 
Covers current policy issues in employment, including raising the minimum wage, the growth of a contingent workforce, and privatizing retirement 
Offers a unique historical and evolutionary explanation of the nature of employment relations

 
As a general overview of contemporary employment relations, Employment Relations in the United States is a perfect supplement to college courses in employment law, human resource management, and collective bargaining. Human resource managers, mediators, and professionals involved in labor relations will also find this an essential reference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogler, Raymond L. (Louis)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hogler, Raymond L. (Louis)
Raymond L. Hogler teaches labor relations and human resource management at Colorado State University. He earned Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. He attended Emory University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the University of Wales (Swansea) as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to his employment at CSU, Dr. Hogler taught in the Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University, and in 1994, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Warwick. He is certified as a labor arbitrator by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Over the past two decades, he has published a number of books and articles on employment issues, including a study of employee participation programs and labor law in the United States. In 2007, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law at the Uiversity of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy.