Table of Contents

Introduction
Unions and Policy Problems by Lawrence G. Flood
Workers in the New Economy
Piecing Together the Fragmented Workplace: Unions and Public Policy on Flexible Employment by Françoise Carre, Virginia duRivage, and Chris Tilly
The Team Concept and the New Global Economy by Stan Luger
Policy Issues in the Economy
Corporate Restructuring and the Decline of American Unionism by John Russo
Forays in Finance: Developments in Labor and Capital by Peter Pitegoff
International Trade Policy: Implications for Employment and Labor Policy in the United States by Gerald Glyde
Policy and Democratic Politics
Towards More Perfect Unions: Public Policy and Union Democracy by Susan Jennick
Combatting Plant Closings in the Era of Transnational Corporations by Bruce Nissen
Public Sector Unions and the Ideological Struggle for the State by Lawrence G. Flood, William Scheuerman, and Sid Plotkin
The Role of Law and Union Organizing: Thoughts on the US and Canada by James Atleson
Selected Bibliography
Index

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Analyzes a wide range of questions relating to legal, economic, and political issues as they affect the union movement and public policy in the 1990s.

About the Author

LAWRENCE G. FLOOD is a Professor of Political Science at Buffalo State College in New York. He holds degrees from Drew University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he is an active member of United University Professions (AFT 2190).

Reviews

.,."valuable information and new insight about modern labor policy."-American Political Science Review

?...valuable information and new insight about modern labor policy.?-American Political Science Review

?The essays are uniformly well-written, analytical, thoughtful, and thoughtprovoking, and all contain innovative yet practical recommendations concerning what unions should want the best ways to get in it.?-Cryptologia

..."valuable information and new insight about modern labor policy."-American Political Science Review

"The essays are uniformly well-written, analytical, thoughtful, and thoughtprovoking, and all contain innovative yet practical recommendations concerning what unions should want the best ways to get in it."-Cryptologia