Labor Relations in the Hawaiian Sugar Industry.

Louisiana's "sugar tramps" in the Caribbean sugar industry.

The linkage of the Caribbean and the United States in the international sugar economy has been long noted, specifically in connection with trade, technology and ownership. Yet the management aspect has been overlooked. This article attempts to redress this historical lacuna by analyzing the development of the LouisianaCaribbean connection following the introduction of the central factory in tha...

Industrial Restructuring, Production Networks, and Labor Relations in the Silicon Valley Electronics Industry

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Mutual Gains or Zero Sum? Labor Relations and Firm Performance in the Airline Industry

The authors examine competing theoretical arguments regarding whether union representation, shared governance, wage levels, and two features of the quality of labor relations-workplace culture and conflict in negotiations-lead to better or worse outcomes for airlines, and they test these interpretations using a mix of historical and quantitative data from major U.S. airlines. Both the qualitati...

Confrontation of Intellectual and Social Currents in Iran Regarding Labor Relations in the Light of Development

The present article, focusing on one of the most important areas of production and reproduction of inequality and inferiority, namely labor relations, seeks to examine the conflict and rivalry of intellectual and social currents. The study of these currents from the perspective of their analysis and prescriptions on recent trends and processes of labor relations in Iran, i.e. the temporalizatio...

Rulemaking: the National Labor Relations Board's prescription for the recurring pains of the health care industry.