The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) is a new data source of the Bureau of Labor Statistics that estimates monthly vacancies, hires, and separations. It has quickly become a useful tool for studying the labor market. This chapter summarizes its aggregate and micro-level evidence, including the relations of vacancies and worker flows to unemployment and other measures of labor mark...

A specter is haunting America’s airline industry: It’s the ghost of Eastern Airlines. Once one of America’s largest carriers, Eastern went out of business in 1991 following a prolonged, crippling and acrimonious strike. The episode was a nadir for labor relations in the airline industry. Even if things are not quite as bad now as then, serious problems are weakening America’s major airlines—and...

This article examines corporate labor and gender relations in transatlantic perspective. It is argued that the gendered communication of IBM’s Thomas Watson, Sr. shaped labor relations in his company’s West German subsidiary. In the United States, Watson acted as a business progressive, expanding internationally, opening professional careers to young women, and implementing welfare capitalist m...