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Bargaining for Competitiveness

Law, Research, and Case Studies

Richard N. Block, Editor
Michigan State University

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

This book offers an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining, firm competitiveness, and employment protections and creation in the United States. The contributors provide an overview of the legal framework and the economic and industrial relations research on collective bargaining, competitiveness, and employment, then follow with four case studies that provide insights into the process of collective bargaining and its current status in the evolving U.S. labor-management system. Included are

  • Collective Bargaining in Context: Comparing the United States and Europe, Richard N. Block and Peter Berg
  • A Legal, Institutional, and Macroeconomic Overview of Collective Bargaining to Employment Protection or Creation and Competitiveness in the United States, Richard N. Block
  • The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Firm Competitiveness and Employment: A Review of the Literature, Dale Belman
  • Case Study Methodology, Richard N. Block
  • Basic Aluminum: The Case of Alcoa-Rockdale, Texas and the United Steelworkers of America Local 4895, Richard N. Block
  • Auto Assembly: The Case of General Motors-Lansing, Michigan and United Automobile Workers Local 652, Richard N. Block and Peter Berg
  • Automobile Parts: Lear Corporation-Elsie, Michigan Division and United Automobile Workers Local 1660, Michael L. Moore and Richard N. Block
  • Health Care: The Case of Sparrow Health Systems-Lansing, Michigan and Professional Employees Council of Sparrow Hospital/Michigan Nurses Association, Michael J. Polzin and Peter Berg
  • The Contribution of Collective Bargaining to Employment Protection or Creation and Competitiveness: Overview and Conclusions, Richard N. Block
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  • Justice on the Job, Block, Friedman, Kaminski, and Levin, eds.
  • Labor Standards in the United States and Canada, Richard N. Block, Karen Roberts, and R. Oliver Clarke
  • Labor Law, Industrial Relations, and Employee Choice, Richard N. Block, John Beck, and Daniel H. Kruger
  • Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B. McKersie, and Richard E. Walton
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    • 186 pp. 2003
    $40 cloth ISBN 0-88099-262-X / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-262-6
    $15 paper ISBN 0-88099-261-1 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-261-9

    Peter Berg, Dale Belman, Michael L. Moore, and Michael J. Polzin are on the faculty at Michigan State University.

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