Quinn Millis, Daniel creator text xx EUA McGraw-Hill 1986 9999 5a monographic und eng 690p 24 x 19 cm A. Contemporary Labor-Management Relations 1 The Industrial Relations System • Modern economic society • Plan of the book • What is an industrial relations system? • How does our industrial relations system operate? • Understandings about what? • What are the most distinguishing characteristics of our industrial relations system? • Labor-Management relations and you • Labor-Management relations and the manager • Why study unions? • Models of Labor-Management relations • Chapter summary • Questions for thought and discussion • Selected reading B. The Historical and Institutional Context 2 History and Philosophy of America Unions • Themes in American labor history • Beginnings of labor unionism, 1794-1886 • Trade unions, 1886-1905 • Radical unionism in the united states, 1905-1920 • Setbacks in the roaring twenties, 1920-1932 • Emergence of the industrial unions, 1932-1939 • Expansion and rivalry, 1940-1955 • Consolidation, 1955-1972 • Decline and transition, 1972-1993 • Characteristics of the labor movement in America • Polítical activity of American labor • Is the labor movement changing? • Chapter summary • Questions for thought and discussion • Selected reading Administración HD8072.5 M54 0-07-042512-4 191119