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Wallace N. Atherton is concerned with a single but very important facet of the behavior of labor unions--the ways in which their bargaining objectives are determined. He begins by reviewing the existing literature and briefly sketches the conceptual structure of the union. The analysis starts with a theory whose form and substance are close to exi

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Nine in ten Americans believe the media are biased. Trust in journalists ranks beneath that in lawyers, and even the media themselves regularly portray their own industry as slanted toward Democrats and liberals. These perceptions, however, do not coincide with reality, as this work reveals.

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Tells the story of the people who live and work on US tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. This book explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide.

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The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. This book focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. It examines the value-laden relationships that led from tobacco to politics, and from agrarian experience to political protest.

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Tobacco addresses the many interrelated controversies surrounding the historical and current use of tobacco and presents a clear, objective, and thorough treatment of this contentious public health and legal issue.

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In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to 2003 and the tourism that became a primary driver of the economy in the post-Navy period.

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In addition, Chambers offers special features that include a look at the colorful people associated with Toyota, interesting trivia, a Toyota time line, a focus on products, a look at how the company treats and trains its workers, and where the company is headed.

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In addition, Chambers offers special features that include a look at the colorful people associated with Toyota, interesting trivia, a Toyota time line, a focus on products, a look at how the company treats and trains its workers, and where the company is headed.

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After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries.

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Analyzes the critical factors that have shaped the character of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean, as well as the challenges that confront trade union practice. Particular emphasis is on the sociological foundations of labour law and the role of the state.

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This book brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society. -- .

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Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. -- .

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This book considers the role of trade unions in national development and governance in Kenya. It covers a range of topics, including union policy positions on the introduction of laptops in schools, technologies and productivity measurements, and e-participation in national and international labor solidarity.

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The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in political history. In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, this work offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century.

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This book recounts Christiaan De Beukelaer's personal odyssey aboard a sail cargo vessel and offers a compelling insight into the developments the shipping industry is undertaking to cut its carbon emissions

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Investigates the problems that public administrators are facing as they seek to find and train others for government service.

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Drawing upon case studies of firms in the steel industry, authors show that companies competing internationally can pool their strengths to offset their individual weaknesses, enabling them to build economically successful entities more easily than if each company tried to go it alone in competition with rivals.