NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch and Lawrence Mishel, editors

Conference held August 4-5, 2000
Published in December 2004 by University of Chicago Press
© 2005 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

NBER Program(s):   LS

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327 pages
ISBN: 0-226-26157-3

Table of Contents

1. Front matter, Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty First Century: Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch, Lawrence Mishel (p. -11 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Introduction : Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch (p. 1 - 12) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Individual Rights and Collective Agents. The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets : David Weil (p. 13 - 44) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. I Studies of Nonworker Organizations: (p. 45 - 46) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy: Kimberly Ann. Elliott, Richard B. Freeman (p. 47 - 98) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. The Living Wage Movement. What Is It, Why Is It, and What’s Known about Its Impact?: Jared Bernstein (p. 99 - 140) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws: Christine Jolls (p. 141 - 176) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. II Studies of Membership-Based Initiatives: (p. 177 - 178) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers. The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation: Richard W. Hurd, John Bunge (p. 179 - 206) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. A Workers’ Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits: Joni Hersch (p. 207 - 228) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. III New Union Opportunities and Initiatives: (p. 229 - 230) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. A Submerging Labor Market Institution?Unions and the Nonwage Aspects of Work: Thomas C. Buchmueller, John DiNardo, Robert Valletta (p. 231 - 264) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations: Eileen Appelbaum, Larry W. Hunter (p. 265 - 292) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers: Lisa M. Lynch (p. 293 - 314) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Contributors: (p. 315 - 316) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. Author Index: (p. 317 - 320) (bibliographic info) (download)

17. Subject Index: (p. 321 - 327) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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