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State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence—By Philip M. Dine. Dine takes you on a riveting journey through America’s cities and back roads, its factories and union halls to answer the question of what happened to organized labor in America and what can be done to restore it to its role of the defender of middle-class values and economic well-being. 259 pages. Hardback and digital (ebook) ISBN: 978-007-14844-0/10:0-07—148844-8. Price $27.95. McGraw-Hill. www.philipdine.com. To order: www.mhprofessional.com.
Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus—By Stephen F. Befort and John W. Budd. The authors blend their scholarly expertise in economics and industrial relations to propose a comprehensive set of reforms, tackling such issues as regulatory enforcement, portable employee benefits, training programs, living wages, workplace safety and health, work-family balance, security and social safety nets, nondiscrimination, good cause dismissal, balanced income distributions, free speech protections for employees, individual and collective workplace decision-making and labor unions. 328 pages. Cloth ISBN 978-0-8047-6153-6, Price $80, Paper, 300 pages, ISBN 978-0-8047-6154-3. Price. $32.95 Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA www.sup.org.
The State of Working America 2008/2009—By Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, Heidi Shierholz. The mantra among economists has been that as productivity grows, so shall living conditions improve. However, the authors show a very different story regarding the income of middle-class families, the poverty of low-income families and the historically off-the-charts measures of inequality. Hundreds of graphs and tables in this book paint a portrait of working America that shows the good, bad and the ugly. 399 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8014-4754-9. Price $59.95. Paper, ISBN 978-0-8014-7477-4. Price $24.95. Cornell University Press, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
Older and Out of Work: Jobs and Social Insurance for a Changing Economy—Randell W. Eberts and Richard A. Hobbie, Editors. Employers are reluctant to utilize older workers even though they possess the skills, knowledge, and commitment needed to help companies compete in a global economy. The various contributors examine factors that explain why older workers are increasingly staying in the labor market, the barriers they face in doing so and the social programs that affect their employment status. 237 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-88099-330-2, Price $40. Paper, ISBN 978-0-880-99-329-6, price $18. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/books.html
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement—By Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking (both Staley workers’ solidarity organizers.) Seventy-five interviews and video tapes of every union meeting during the early 1990’s documented workers who waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. 232 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-252-034374-4, price $75, Paper, ISBN 978-0-252-07640-4, price $25. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, www.press.uillinois.edu.
The SAGE Handbook Of Industrial Relations—Edited by Paul Blyton, Nicolas Bacon, Jack Fiorito and Edmund Heery. The handbook is a collection of industrial relations research and theoretical debates that will shape the field well into the 21st century. Globalization, the decline of trade unions, the spread of high performance work systems and the emergence of a more diverse, flexible work-force have opened new avenues of inquiry. 658 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-1-4129-1154-2, Price $150. SAGE Publications LTD., 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Rd., London EC1Y 1SP www.sagepub.com.
Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches—By Robert Anthony Bruno. “What role do faith and religious observance play in the everyday lives of working people?” The book is embedded in the contemporary religious practices and beliefs of working-class Chicago-area congregations to show both how faith is inextricably interwoven in the everyday lives of the people who regularly attend places of worship and how class impacts the daily manifestation of these people’s religion. 273 pages. Paper, ISBN 978-0-8142-5134-8, price, $24.95. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8142-1095-6, price $54.95, CD, ISBN 978-0-8142-9175-7, price $9.95. Ohio State Press, Columbus, OH. www.ohiostatepress.org.
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker—By Steven Greenhouse. Greenhouse tells stories of workers from every class and age who are being squeezed dry by the corporations in this affluent country. The book explains how economic, business, political and social trends have fueled the squeeze. He also examines companies that are generous to their workers that can serve as models for all of corporate America and presents a series of pragmatic, ready-to-be-implemented suggestions on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the squeeze. Paper, 365 pages, ISBN 978-1-4000-9652-7, $14.95. Cloth, 384 pages, ISBN 978-1-4000-4489-4, $25.95. eBook, 320 pages, ISBN 978-0-307-26863-1, $14.95. Alfred A. Knopf, New York and Canada, www.aaknopf.com.
A Future of Good Jobs? America’s Challenge in the Global Economy—Edited by Timothy J. Bartik and Susan N. Houseman. Seven contributors address the problems and explore the solutions to the pressing challenges facing current U.S labor market policy. These articles look at several economic and social forces such as financial market pressures on companies, globalization, technological change and design of our current health system. Several key reforms of labor market policy are presented that will deal with the decline in the value of minimum wage and the decline in union representation. 327 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-88099-332-6, $40. Paper, ISBN 978-0-88-99-331-9, $20. W.E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/books.html
Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry—By Francine A Moccio. Forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly skilled blue-collar jobs. Efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women’s full inclusion. This in-depth case study brings new insights into the way in which divisions at work along the lines of race, gender, and economic background enhance and/or inhibit inclusion. 288 pages. Cloth, ISBN 978-1-59213-737-4, $59.50. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA. www.temple.edu/tempress.
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