Organizing Clerical Workers: Determinants of Success

Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment Among Students and Clerical Workers

Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers. Coop...

Celibacy and Clerical Culture

• . . f o r the manner of thy begetting is so foule that the name, nay the lightest thought of it, d~leth the purest minde, so that our B. Sauiour refused none of our miseries, but on@ that," and the matter so horrid, so foule, that all other dung is pleasant and gratefull in respect of it; nay we dare not in discourse glue it a name, for our owne shame & others of fence. . . I cannot imagine a...

First carpo-metacarpal osteoarthritis and its association with occupation (with an emphasis on clerical workers)

Clerical Aptitude In Library Employment

A L L T H E BASIC operations and many of the more complex ones in a library depend fundamentally upon clerical aptitude. Clerical aptitude is necessary in shelving books, in filing various types of cards, in searching for missing books, in using catalogs and indexes, and in revising slipping or typing or cataloging— indeed in almost every operation required in a library. The clerical aptitude r...

Organizing Workers in Centralized Bargaining Systems

Unions’ decline is prevalent in most western democracies (Blanchflower 2007). Decline takes many features – decreasing bargaining power, reduced role in political negotiations, reduced coverage of collective agreements, shallow bargaining (in terms of topics covered and the extent of workers rights), and declining membership rates. In this article I would like to focus on the latter aspect. The...