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With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency. As a result, American employers have changed many of their long-standing labor priorities. Work-force stability has become less important; long-term commitments have become less attractive; and labor costs, especially fringe benefits, have come under increased scrutiny. With this large reorganization of work forces and priorities, Americans are again faced with the significant questions of what rights workers have--and should have--in the workplace. In the current environment, employers have a greater need for highly motivated, hard-working, skilled employees, and have often developed innovated forms of management to enlist these worker's support. So too, national legislation has granted workers new rights in recent years, such as mandatory early notification of plant closings, greater rights for workers with disabilities, and increased protection for older workers. State legislators have also enacted expanded protection for workers, and state courts have been rewriting basic legal doctrines governing workers' rights in ways that favor employees. In this book, Richard Edwards explores workers' rights and the institutions that have defined and are now enforcing them. He looks closely at the decline of American unions and its effect on traditional rights. As unions have been transformed from major institutional players in the American economy to much more marginal brokers enrolling only a small minority of American workers, political support for workers' rights has diminished. Edwards also traces the American state courts' and the ongoing revision of the legal interpretations of employment contracts and employers' promises, a development which he believes may revolutionize traditional employment law. Rights at Work cuts through the debate between employers' groups and workers' advocates to find a new common ground. Edwards argues that a new system of employment relations offers a "win-win" opportunity, and he proposes some innovative public policy strategies that could protect workers' rights while enhancing employers' ability to succeed in a highly competitive global market.

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Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-10
0815721056
ISBN-13
9780815721055
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Author
Richard Edwards
Publication Name
Rights at Work : Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
278 Pages

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9in
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0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz

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"A timely and important book about change in defintiion of the employment relationship in the United States.... Read this book before determining your own position." -- Journal of Economic Literature, "This book explores employees' rights in the workplace and proposes some innovative public policy strategies that would protect the rights of workers while enhancing the ability of employers to succeed in today's highly competitive global environment.... [A] useful contribution to the growing discussion of workplace rights." -- Choice, "A timely and important book about change in defintiion of the employment relationship in the United States.... Read this book before determining your own position." - Journal of Economic Literature "This book explores employees' rights in the workplace and proposes some innovative public policy strategies that would protect the rights of workers while enhancing the ability of employers to succeed in today's highly competitive global environment.... [A] useful contribution to the growing discussion of workplace rights." - Choice "This is a most important book. Calling on law, economics and basic institutional change, the author provides a most informative view of modern labor relations and its problems and possibilities. Do not miss it!" -John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University "A useful contribution to the general discussion about workplace rights. Rights at Work is timely as the common law is in a period of flux and the United States is increasingly concerned about foreign competition. The book is easy to follow and very accessible to interested laypeople." -Stewart J. Schwab, Cornell Law School
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Labor, Labor & Employment
Dewey Decimal
331.01/1/0973
Genre
Law, Business & Economics, Political Science

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