Labor Economics

12 of the Best Books and Articles on: Labor Economics

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1.

Labor Economics: Theory, Institutions, and Public Policy
by Ray Marshall, Vernon M. Briggs Jr. 658 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Part One: Introduction

Chapter 1: The Study of Labor Economics

Part Two: International Labor Issues

Chapter 2: Labor and Industrialization

Chapter 3: National and International Economic and Labor Market Trends

Part Three

Chapter 4

Chapter 5: The Economic Analysis of Labor Markets

Chapter 6: The Supply of Labor

Chapter 7: The Demand for Labor

Chapter 8: The Economics of Education and Training: Competing Theories

Chapter 9: The Economics of Education and Training: Empirical Evidence

Part Four: Labor Movements and Industrial Relations

Chapter 10: The Economics of Collective Bargaining

Chapter 11: The Evolution of Trade Unionism in the United States

Chapter 12: American Trade Unionism: Present and Future

Chapter 13: Labor Movements and Economic Policy in Other Industrialized Countries

Chapter 14: Industrial Relations Systems, Management, and Economic Competitiveness

Part Five: Public Policy

Chapter 15: Development of Public Policy in Labor Relations

Chapter 16: The Regulation of Labor Markets

Chapter 17: Employment Discrimination and Public Policy

Chapter 18: Human Resource Development Policy

Chapter 19: Labor Issues of the Future

Index
2.

Three Worlds of Labor Economics
by Garth Mangum, Peter Philips. 358 pgs.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Part 1 · Part 1 · Part 1 · Part 1: Income Distribution

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Part II · Part II · Part II · Part II: Racial Wage Gap

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Part IIi · Part IIi · Part IIi · Part IIi

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Part IV · Part IV · Part IV · Part IV: International Division Of Labor

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3.

Labor Economics and Labor Relations
by Lloyd G. Reynolds. 720 pgs.

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Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION

1: Labor in Industrial Society

2: The Labor Force: Quantity

3: The Labor Force: Quality

II: THE LABOR MARKET

6: Labor Markets in Operation

7: Labor Market Policy: Information and Training

8: Labor Market Policy: Discrimination

III: WAGES AND INCOMES

10: Money Wages, Prices, and Employment

11: Real Wages and Labor's Income Share

12: Differences in Wages

13: Inequality, Poverty, and Public Policy

IV: TRADE UNION INSTITUTIONS

15: The Evolution of American Unionism

16: The Government of Trade Unions

V: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

18: Collective Bargaining Procedures

19: Bargaining Power, Deadlocks, and Strikes

VI: THE IMPACT OF THE UNION

21: Work Schedules, Work Speeds, and Production Methods

22: The Impact on Wage Structure

23: The Balance Sheet of Trade Unionism

VII: THE FRAMEWORK OF PUBLIC CONTROL

25: Rights and Responsibilities

26: The Use of Economic Weapons

27: Bargaining in the Public Sector

Index
4.

Readings in Labor Economics & Industrial Relations
by Joseph Shister. 673 pgs.

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Preface to First Edition

Preface to Second Edition

Contents

Part I: The American Working Class

Introductory

A Working Class

Class Structure in America

The Worker's View Of Job Opportunity

What is the Labor Problem?

Part II: Trade-Unionism

Introductory

Why Workers Join Unions

How and Why Unions Are Organized

The Logic Of Union Growth

Unionization of The White Collar Worker

Obstacles to Future Union Growth

The Growth of American Unions

Introductory

Job-Conscious Unionism: The Commons-Perlman Theory

From "Job-Consciousness" To Power Accumulation

Ideology and the Unions

Introductory

Trade-Union Structure

Labor's New Men of Power

Bureaucracy and Democracy In Labor Unions

Democracy in Labor Unions

Patterns of Participation In Local Unions

Union Affiliation And Membership

Introductory

Unions, Government, And Politics

American Labor in Politics Since the New Deal

Organized Labor As A Pressure Group

Part III: Collective Bargaining

Introductory

The Nature Of Collective Bargaining

The Collective Bargaining Process

Types of Grievances

New Patterns Of Collective Bargaining

The Purposes of Union Penetration Into Managerial Functions

The Scope Of Collective Bargaining

A Study on the Management Prerogative Issue

Introductory

Multi-Employer Bargaining

Economic Aspects Of Industry-Wide Bargaining

The Area Of Collective Bargaining

The Future Of Pattern Bargaining

The Significance And Function of Mediation

The Administrative Type Of Employers' Association

Introductory

Methods of Remuneration

Wage Determination: Trick or Technique

A Collective Bargaining Approach to Job Evaluation

Wage Determination Under Collective Bargaining

The Economics Of Annual Improvement Factor Wage Increases

The Impact of Unions On General Wage Changes

Trade-Union Wage Policies: Some Economic Aspects

Union Wage Decisions And Employment

Introductory

A Possible Solution for The Issue of the Closed Shop

Control of Layoffs: Policies and Problems

The Seniority Problem In Mass Production Industries

Make-Work Rules And Policies

Technological Change -- The Policy of Control

Working Rules in The Building Trades

Union-Management Welfare Plans

Labor's Approach To the Retirement Problem

Changing Approaches To Layoff and Recall

Job Modifications Under Collective Bargaining

Industrial Jurisprudence: Some General Conclusions

Introductory

Varieties of Labor Relations

The Dynamics of the Union- Management Relationship

A Successful Union-Management Co-Operation Plan

Introductory

Collective Bargaining And Income Distribution

Monopolistic Wage Determination as a Part of the General Problem of Monopoly

Labor Monopoly And Business Monopoly: A Faulty Analogy

Trade Union Policies And Nonmarket Values

Introductory

The Conspiracy Doctrine In Collective Bargaining

Hitchman Coal and Coke Company V. Mitchell: The "Yellow-Dog" Contract (1907-1917)

The Impact of the National Labor Relations Act (wagner Act)

United States V. Hutcheson: The Protective Wings of The Norris-La Guardia Act (1940-1941)

The Taft-Hartley Act: An Evaluation of Experience

Emergency Disputes: Some Basic Guideposts

The Limitations of Fact Finding in Industrial Disputes

The Handling Of Emergency Disputes

State Labor Relations Acts

The Future Of Collective Bargaining

Part IV: Employment Security

Introductory

What is Full Employment?

The Social Implications Of General Unemployment

Changes in the Volume of Employment in Certain Industry Groups, 1929-32, Ranked According to Level of Decline

Employment Status in Buffalo, 1929 to 1933

Unemployment in Manufacturing, Transportation, Building Trades, and Mining, 1897-1926

Unemployment as a Per Cent of the Civilian Labor Force

Introductory

Adjustments to a Wage Change in the Individual Firm

Unemployment Insurance

Technological Unemployment

The Theory of the Automatic Reabsorption of Technologically Displaced Labor

Introductory

How Can We Control General Unemployment?

Can We Control General Unemployment Throug Wage Policy?

Guaranteed Wages And Employment

Governmental Policy To Full Employment

The Employment Act of 1946

Trade-Union Policy Under Full Employment

Part V: Income And Leisure Security

Introductory

The Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation

The Economics Of Minimum Wages

The Causes of Increases In Real Wages

The Pressing Problem Of Old-Age Security

Economic Aspects Of Aging and Retirement

Hours of Labour

Appendix: Questions for Study And Discussion

Index
5.

Labour Economics
by Stephen Smith. 452 pgs.

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In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of this book, labor economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject in the curriculum. The second edition will address the changes since the first edition and give greater centrality to microeconomics to reflect current course teaching.

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Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Labour Supply

2: Labour Demand and Productivity

3: Wage Determination and Inequality

4: Personnel Economics

5: Human Capital

6: Labour Market Discrimination

7: Trade Unions and Labour Markets

8: Labour Market Flexibility

9: Job Search and Vacancy Analysis

Suggested Reading

10: Unemployment

11: Trade, Globalisation and Labour Markets

Notes

Bibliography

Index
6.

John R. Commons: Pioneer of Labor Economics, in Monthly Labor Review
by Jack Barbash. 6 pgs.
7.

Labor, Management, and Social Policy: Essays in the John R. Commons Tradition
by Gerald G. Somers. 306 pgs.

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CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I JOHN R. COMMONS' POINT OF VIEW

1: The Basis of Commons' Progressive Approach to Public Policy

II UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

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3: L. REED TRIPP

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Sources

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III THE LABOR MARKET AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION

6: The Development and Status of Social Security in America

7: The Adequacy of Workmen's Compensation as Social Insurance: A Review of Developments and Proposals

8: Migrant Labor in Wisconsin

Conclusion

Notes

9: Prevailing Wage Law

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Notes

INDEX
8.

The "Compulsive Shift" to Institutional Concerns in Recent Labor Economics, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Douglas Kinnear. 12 pgs.
9.

Is There a New Institutional Consensus in Labor Economics?, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Michael Hillard, Richard McIntyre. 11 pgs.
10.

The Human Economy
by Eli W. Ginzberg. 276 pgs.

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Contents

Preface

Prospectus: the Human Resources Approach

Part I: Framework

I: The Human Resource

2: Values in Social Theory

3: The Manpower Development System

4: Human Resources and Social Change

Part II: The Development of Skill

5: The Process O Skill Acquisition

6: Access to Opportunity

7: Social Mobility

Part III: Manpower Utilization

8: Employment Opportunities

9: Job Structures

10: Manpower Imbalances

Part IV: The Organization's Manpower Strategy

11: The Employing Organization

12: What Employees Want

13: Conflict and Compromise

Part V: Policy

14: Conceptual Foundations for Manpower Policy

15: The Broadening of Options

16: Directions for Manpower Policy

Sources and Reading Notes

Bibliography

Index
11.

Rules, Contract, and Institution in the Wage-Labor Relationship: A Return to Institutionalism?, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Laure Bazzoli, Thierry Kirat, Marie-Claire Villeval. 35 pgs.
12.

The "Structure-Unionism-Wage" Paradigm in Labor Economics: Resolving the Stalemate, in Journal of Economic Issues
by Gianni Zappala. 28 pgs.

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