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Author : Lloyd Ulman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Building trades
ISBN : WISC:89085989077
Author : Gerald Finkel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457275
The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.
Author : Marc L. Silver
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438420011
Under Construction offers a unique examination of organization and work in the construction industry. Synthesizing organizational and labor relations orientations, it develops a comprehensive sociological perspective on work relations in construction. Silver examines the effects of local market conditions, employers' demands, and trade union activities on the daily lives of workers—skilled as well as unskilled. The book also challenges popular myths about construction work and the building trades with analyses of construction sites, hiring practices, and workers' reactions to the conditions of their work. Under Construction powerfully demonstrates the need for new industrial approaches by concluding with a series of practical alternatives to current practices in the industry's housing sector.
Author : Hristos Doucouliagos,Richard B. Freeman,Patrice Laroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317498285
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labor markets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulations and labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers. The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists and other social scientists have long debated. Do the benefits of unionism exceed the costs to the economy and society writ large, or do the costs exceed the benefits? The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions using the tools of meta-regression analysis to identify and quantify the economic impact of trade unions, as well as to correct research design faults, the effects of selection bias and model misspecification. This volume makes use of a unique dataset of hundreds of empirical studies and their reported estimates of the microeconomic impact of trade unions. Written by three authors who have been at the forefront of this research field (including the co-author of the original volume, What Do Unions Do?), this book offers an overview of a subject that is of huge importance to scholars of labor economics, industrial and employee relations, and human resource management, as well as those with an interest in meta-analysis.
Author : Dimitri A. Germidis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035739882
OECD pub. Study of employment conditions and labour relations in the construction industry in Mexico, based on sample surveys of 44 employers, 37 trade union leaders, and 1000 construction workers in various regions - covers employees attitudes and trade union membership (incl. Migrant workers), wages, workers representation, management attitudes, the labour market, etc. Bibliography pp. 149 to 151, map and statistical tables.
Author : Irwin Dubinsky
Publisher : Irvington Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89063262778
Author : Richard Hyman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412932493
`As one would expect, this is a well-crafted, literate and absorbing account of European trade union development. Established scholars and advanced students will enjoy the discussion of theory and cases′ - The Journal of Industrial Relations `[A] detailed and fascinating history of trade unions in the three countries [Britain, Germany, Italy]... considers how the unions could recover from the intense disarray of recent years′ - Labour Research `Everyone concerned over the construction of a truly social Europe will learn much from this thoughtful and probing study′ - Professor Colin Crouch, Istituto Universitario Europeo In this comprehensive overview of trade unionism in Europe and beyond, Richard Hyman offers a fresh perspective on trade union identity, ideology and strategy. He shows how the varied forms and impact of different national movements reflect historical choices on whether to emphasize a role as market bargainers, mobilizers of class opposition or partners in social integration. The book demonstrates how these inherited traditions can serve as both resources and constraints in responding to the challenges which confront trade unions in today′s working world.
Author : Joseph B. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : UCAL:B4380422
Monograph examining effects of government policies on collective bargaining in the construction industry in Canada - discusses labour relations, collective agreements, trade unionism, labour disputes, strikes, wages developments, centralization and decentralization of bargaining and trends, comments on legislation concerning bargaining unit accreditation, and includes a case study of British Columbia and comparison of bargaining structure. References and statistical tables.
Author : Michael Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 0415739241
First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Detailed attention is paid to construction firms, the workers they employ, the influence of trade unionism and the role of other agencies in the building process. Reissued at a hugely challenging time for the British construction industry, this relevant and practical title will be of particular value to students and academics of economics and social change, as well as those on courses for construction professionals.
Author : Michael Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315816717
First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Michael Ball describes how the major firms survived the economic slump between 1973 and 1982 - when construction workloads collapsed - by substantially restructuring their operations, relationships with clients, workforces and subcontractors. Detailed attention is paid to construction firms, the workers they employ, the influence of trade unionism and the role of other agencies in the building process. Reissued at a particularly challenging time for the British construction industry, this relevant and practical title will be of value to students and academics of economics and social change, as well as those on courses for construction professionals.
Author : Hermann Bayer,Kurt Schmahl,Bernd Süllow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : UVA:X001684440
Author : INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN : 922033710X
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world's workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades. This report seeks to improve understanding of home work as well as to offer policy guidance that can pave the way to decent work for homeworkers both old and new
Author : Toke Aidt,Zafiris Tzannatos
Publisher : Directions in Development
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106015902999
This book offers an extensive survey and synthesis of the economic literature on trade unions and collective bargaining and their impact on micro-and macro-economic outcomes. The authors demonstrate the effects of collective bargaining in different country settings and time periods. A comprehensive reference, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of labor policy as well as to policy makers and anyone with an interest in the economic consequences of unionism.
Author : Jan Drahokoupil
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Contracting out
ISBN : 9782874523663
Production networks in many sectors have become increasingly fragmented. Cutting labour costs by lowering pay, increasing work intensity and/or shifting flexibility costs to workers are just some of the motivations for outsourcing. But it can also be used to circumvent employee representation and collective bargaining systems within companies, and labour market regulations in general. Though such intentions may not drive the bulk of outsourcing decisions, any change in company boundaries is likely to impact employment, working conditions and industrial relations in the value chain. This book focuses on the dynamics of outsourcing in Europe from the perspective of employees. In particular, it considers one insufficiently studied aspect: the impact of outsourcing on working conditions and employment relations in companies. The book also collects lessons learned from the efforts of employees and trade unions to shape outsourcing decisions, processes and their impact on employment and working conditions.
Author : J.J. Rosa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401713719
The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe. Its main symptom is, of course, the decrease in union membership. Still, other, less observable elements account for the concern, namely the obsolescence of discourse, the decrease of militant motivation, and the question of efficiency of strikes or collective bargaining. One must keep in mind, however, that trade unions will evolve differently from one country to another. What we know about trade unions has changed over the years. We can now more accurately assess the effects of union action, especially with regard to labor market, wages, and productivity. This book adds to the assessment by integrating the new theories of organizations, contracts, and property rights. In doing so, we shift from a study of markets to one of hierarchies. Thus, the current literature comes back to its sources (but with improved analytical instruments) by returning to the Ross-Dunlop debate on the nature of the trade union. This more complex outlook of trade unions as an organization-not only as an abstract or bodyless supplier of monopolistic labor-allows one to understand better the apparent differences between unions (mainly American) whose action is oriented towards work relation ships and labor contract management and unions (European or "Latin") who are closer to a pressure group wielding power on the political front.