Michigan and US Labor Unions and - Michigan State University



Michigan and North American Labor and

Community Economic Development,

Historical and Sociological Perspectives:

An Initial Reference List

by John L. Revitte, Summer '02

Reflections on Modern Labor Problems (MLPs) including over Quality & Quantity of Work and Leisure and Community & Labor Crisis and Changes in the Global/New Economy, New Technologies, Work Reorganizations, & "Corporate Attacks" on Workers:

MLP 1: Work and Overtime and/or Leisure: Changing Definitions and Expectations:

America and the New Economy, Anthony Carnevale, Washington D.C.: ASTD and U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (1991), paper.

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, Juliet Schor, New York: Basic Books (1991), Cloth $21.

Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs: Employment & Unemployment in the United States, Michael Yates, New York: Monthly Review Press, NY (1994), Paper $10.

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, Jeremy Rifkin, New York: Tarcher/Putnam (1995), Paper $15.95.

MLP 2: Down &/or Right-sizing, Redundancies and the Loss of Jobs w/ Higher Pay and Benefits:

Downsize This! Michael Moore, New York: Crown (1996), Cloth $21.

The Downsizing of America, New York: The New York Times (1996), Paper $14.

America: Who Stole the Dream? Don Barlett and James Steele, Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel Books (1996), Paper $9.95.

MLP 3: "Corporate Attacks" on Workers, Unions and their Communities:

"There's Supposed to be a Law" video by LIPA/AFL-CIO (1994); American Dream, (199?) video, by Barbara Kopple; Human Resources, French video; etc.

Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, Kim Moody, London: Verso (1997), $20 paper.

Ravenswood, Juravich & Bronfenbrenner (1999), see below.

Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland (Decatur, IL) Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans, Stephen Franklin, New York: Guilford Press (2001), Cloth $23.95.

Learning from our Defeats as Well as Our Victories: The Caterpillar and Firestone/Bridgestone Strikes and the Staley Lock-Out (Decatur, IL), Steven Ashby, forthcoming.

Strategies for Labor Response including Rebellions, Revolutions, Political Parties and

Laws, Collective Bargaining, and Labor-Religious-Civil Rights-Community Coalitions:

1. Pre-"global era" labor history and commentary on labor responses to

crisis: work/leisure quality, job losses, new technology, work reorganizations, & "labor problems" including worker/union rights:

a. International Perspectives and Historic Accounts:

Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present, Patrick Murray (ed.), New York: Routledge (1997), $24.95 paper.

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Norman Cohn, New York: Oxford Univ. Press (1957) Revised and expanded 1970: $3.50 paper.

Ideology and Popular Protest (incl. English Luddite battles v. textile machines), George Rude, New York: Pantheon Books (1980).

Quadragesimo Anno: Encyclical Letter on Reconstructing the Social Order, Pope Pius XI, New York: Paulist Press (1939), $.10 paper.

Strategy for Labor: A Radical Proposal, Andre Gorz, Boston: Beacon Press (1964) English trans. 1967, $2.95 paper.

The Post-Industrial Society: Tomorrow's Social History: Classes, Conflicts and Culture in the Programmed Society, Alain Touraine, New York: Random House (1971) (Originally published as La Societe post-industrielle, Paris: Editions Denoel, 1969.)

b. U. S. and Michigan industrial relations, government regulation over labor problems, and labor history perspectives and accounts:

The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States, Bruce Kaufman, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press (1993) $19.95 paper.

Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise, Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell Harris, New York: Cambridge University Press (1993), $17.95 paper.

Labor Cases and Materials: Readings on the Relation of Government to Labor, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts (1941).

The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960, Christopher Tomlins, New York: Cambridge University Press (1985), $15.95 paper.

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935, Colin Gordon, New York: Cambridge University Press (1994).

A Century of Social Teaching: A Common Heritage, A Continuing Challenge: A Pastoral Message of the Catholic Bishops of the U.S. on the 100th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Washington D.C.: U. S. Catholic Conference (1990).

Organized Labor and the Church: Reflections of a "Labor Priest," Msgr. George Higgins, Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press (1993), $12.95 paper.

Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism, Daniel Ernst, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press (1995).

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of the Liberal Industrial Order, Stephen Amberg, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press (1997).

A Short History of American Industrial Policies, William Nester, New York: St. Martins Press (1998), $45 cloth.

Impact of Automation on Employment: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Unemployment and the Impact of Automation of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, 87th Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office (1961).

Economic and Social Implications of Automation: An Annotated Bibliography, Einar Hardin, et al., LIRC, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, (1961).

Too Old to Work--Too Young to Retire: A Case Study of A Permanent Plant Shutdown, Harold Sheppard, et al., ILIR, U of M/Wayne State: Special Cmte on Unemployment Problems, U. S. Senate, Washington D.C.: Govt. Printing Office (1969).

Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement, Charles Craver, New York: New York University Press (1993), $40 cloth.

The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present, Steve Babson, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (1999), $10 paper.

Working Detroit, Steve Babson, with R. Alpern, D. Elsila and J. Revitte, New York: Adama (1984), reissued Detroit: Wayne State University Press, $ ? paper.

From Calumet to Kalamazoo: A History of Michigan Workers and their Unions from 1818 (31 min. video/1984) & Discussion & Resource Guide for Teaching Michigan Labor History (82 pp.: 1985), Carol Haddad and John Revitte, East Lansing, MI: MSU IMC and MSU Press, Video: $25, Guide: free by request.

See Dissent, Labor's Heritage, Labor History, Labor Notes, Labor Studies Journal, Michigan Historical Review, Michigan History and The Nation for numerous articles and book/video reviews of texts and AV resources on historic topics of relevance.

2. Modern personal and spiritual responses to the global economy, work reorganizations, etc. and other modern work/leisure challenges:

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Robert Bellah, et al., (eds.), New York: Harper & Row ( 1985), $8.95 paper.

The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, David Whyte, New York: Currency Doubleday (1994).

The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, Matthew Fox, San Francisco: Harper (1994).

The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian, Howard Zinn, Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press (1999), $13.95 paper.

Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, John Bowe, et al., (eds.), New York: Three River Press (2000), $16 paper.

How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Work, Reg Theriault, New York: Norton (1995), $13 paper.

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Enhrenreich, (1999), $? paper.

Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square 1 in a Service Economy, Benjamin Cheever, Bloomsbury (2001), $25.95 cloth.

A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir, Ian Levison, New York: Soho Press (2002), $22 cloth.

Starseed: The Third Millennium, Living in the Posthistoric World, Ken Carey, San Francisco: Harper (1991), $10 paper.

The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, Andrew Shapiro, New York: Century Foundation (1999), $25 cloth.

See also Faith Works for articles and reviews of AV resources and see church collections, e.g., St. John Student Parish Video Resources (6/02) on social justice.

3. Modern commentary on the ethics of corporate behavior regarding redundancies and other modern labor problems:

"Ethical Perspectives in Employment Relations and Human Resources," John Revitte and Jerry Lazar, in E. E. Kossek & R. Block, Managing Human Resources in the 21st Century: From Core Concepts to Strategic Choice, (2000), Cincinnati, OH: South-Western/Thomson Learning, paper; & see module 27 instructor notes: .

The Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times, Robert Theobald, Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems (1987), $9.95 paper.

American Business Values, Gerald Cavanagh, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 3rd ed. (1990).

The Ethics of Business in a Global Economy, Paul Minus (ed.), Amsterdam: Kluwer, (1993).

If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business, Tom Morris, New York: Henry Holt (1997), $12 paper.

The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership is Good Business, John Dalla Costa, Reading, MA: Perseus Press, (1998).

Managerial Ethics: Moral Management of People and Processes, Marshall Schminke (ed.), Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (1998), $? paper.

"Ethical Policies are Big with Employers, But Workers See Small Impact on Workplace," 6/29/00, & "Path Toward Ethical Corporate Behavior Starts with Code of Conduct, Speakers Say," 5/30/02, Bulletin to Management, Washington, D.C.: BNA; & see 2002 serial, newspaper, & journals regarding unethical corporate/govt practices.

4. Modern educator, business leader and community commentary on leadership, education and work force training/skills upgrading:

The Deming Management Method, Mary Walton, New York: Putnum Perigee (reprint, original 1986), $? paper.

Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning and Community, Marvin Weisbord, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1987).

High-Involvement Management, Edward Lawler, San Fran.: Jossey-Bass (1991).

Quality or Else: The Revolution in World Business, Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason, Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1991), $10.95 paper.

Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, Ray Marshall and Marc Tucker, New York: Basic (1992), $13 paper.

Competing for the Future, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, Boston: Harvard Business School Press (1994).

Competitive Advantage through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Boston: Harvard Business School Press (1994).

5. Modern labor reflections regarding union responses to MLPs: the global economy, work reorganizations, job loss, & corporate attacks on unions:

Labor and Technology: Union Responses to Changing Enviroments, Donald Kennedy, et al., (eds.) (1982) and Labor and Reindustrialization: Workers and Corporate Change, Donald Kennedy (ed.), (1984) Dept. of Labor Studies: Penn State University; & see Society & Technological Change, Rudi Volti, New York: St. Martin's Press, (1988).

The Future of Work, August 1983; The Changing Situation of Workers and Their Unions, Feb. 1985; & The New American Workplace: A Labor Perspective: Report(s) by the AFL-CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work, Feb. 1994, Washington D.C.: AFL-CIO, paper.

Empowering Workers in the Global Economy: A Labour Agenda for the 1990s: Background and Conference Proceedings, 10/22-23/91, Toronto: United Steelworkers of America / Metallurgistes Unis d' Amerique, paper.

Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept, Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter, Boston: Labor Notes/South End Press (1988), $16 paper; and Working Smart: A Union Guide to Participation Programs and Reengineering, Detroit: Labor Notes (1994), $20 paper.

Worker Participation, vol. 2, no. 2 (Dec. 1991) and others in series, "Workplace Topics," Washington D.C.: AFL-CIO Dept. of Economic Research (ed./collected papers),

Changing Work: A Union Guide to Workplace Change, Robert Baugh, Washington, DC: AFL-CIO Human Resources Development Institute, (1994), $5 paper.

1993 UAW-Ford Joint Programs: Key Documents, Dearborn: UAW-Ford National Education Development and Training Center (1993); and see updates and similar documents from UAW-GM and UAW-Chrysler national training centers.

Collective Agreement between Algoma Steel and USWA Local 2251, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; see esp. management and union rights' clauses and joint decision making, joint workplace redesign and employee participation process agreement, amended 2/00.

School-to-Work: On the High Road, An IBEW / Verizon Educational Partnership (16 min. video), Washington D.C.: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (2001); and see other joint labor-management work force enhancement efforts' booklets and videos, most commonly found in the construction trades.

Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement, Arthur Shostak, Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press, (1991); and CyberUnion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology, Arthur Shostak, (2000), $24.95 paper.

Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, (1995).

Unions and Workplace Reorganization, Bruce Nissen (ed.), (1997); and Which Direction for Organized Labor? Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations, Bruce Nissen (ed.), (1999), Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press.

America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice, John Sweeney with David Kusnet, Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1996), $18.95 cloth.

Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies, Kate Bronfenbrenner, et al., (eds.), Ithaca: ILR/Cornell Univ. Press (1998), $ ? paper.

What Workers Want, Richard Freeman & Joel Rogers, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press (1999), $17.95 paper.

Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up, Jeremy Brecher & Tim Costello, Cambridge, MA: South End Press (1994 & 8), $16 paper and video w/ same title available.

Economic Development: A Union Guide to the High Road, Robert Baugh and M. Hilton, Washington D.C.: AFL-CIO Human Resources Development Institute (1998).

"We'll Take the High Road: Unions and Economic Development," Sheldon Friedman, WorkingUSA, Nov/Dec 1997, pp. 58-66.

"Improving the Union Outreach Capabilities of Manufacturing Extension Centers," Carol Haddad, Labor Studies Journal, vol. 25, no. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 56-83.

Working Together to Revitalize Labor in our Communities: Case Studies of Labor Education-Central Labor Body Collaboration, Jill Kriesky (ed.), Orono, Maine: University and College Labor Education Association and U. of Maine (1998), paper.

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor, Tom Juravich & Kate Bronfenbrenner, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press (1999), $15.95 paper (2000); and see Three Strikes and Learning from our Defeats on page one above.

You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization, Elliot Sclar, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (2000), $25 cloth.

Building More Effective Unions, Paul Clark, Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press (2000), $19.95 paper.

Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, James Green, Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press ( 2000).

See also America @ Work, Dissent, Journal of Labor Research, Labor Notes, Labor Studies Journal, New Labor Forum, Perspectives on Work, Solidarity (& other union pubs) and Working USA (plus the New York Times, The Economist, The Nation, the Wall St. Journal, etc.) for numerous articles and book and video reviews of texts and AV resources on recent contemporary accounts on many relevant topics.

Please feel free to provide some assistance and suggestions regarding other readings and/or potential reorganizations of this initial reference list to Professor John Revitte, via 417 S. Kedzie Hall, SLIR/MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1032, or 517-355-5143, or revitte@msu.edu, or msu.edu/~revitte. Thanks; jr.

john revitte--7.11 & 17.02

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