Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch and Lawrence Mishel, editors

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, p. 1-12
Richard B. Freeman and Joni Hersch

1. Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets, p. 13-44
David Weil


I. Studies of Nonworker Organizations

2. White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy, p. 47-97
Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Freeman


3. The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What's Known about Its Impact? p, 99-140
Jared Bernstein


4. The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws, p. 141-176
Christine Jolls


II. Studies of Membership-Based Initiatives

5. Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation, p. 179-206
Richard W. Hurd and John Bunge


6. A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits, p. 207-228
Joni Hersch


III. New Union Opportunities and Initiatives

7. A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the Nonwage Aspects of Work, p. 231-263
Thomas C. Buchmueller, John E. DiNardo and Robert G. Valletta


8. Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations, p. 265-291
Eileen Appelbaum and Larry W. Hunter


9. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers, p. 293-314
Lisa M. Lynch