striking a balance Budd, John W. creator text xx New York McGraw-Hill Irwin 2010 3rd monographic und

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xviii, 541 p. : ill.: 26 cm. Shows labor relations as a system for balancing employment relationship goals and the rights of labor and management. This title places the discussion of contemporary US processes into the context of underlying themes, such as what the goals of the system are, whether or not those goals are being fulfilled, and if reform is needed. Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges -- Labor Unions: Good or Bad? -- Historical Development -- Labor Law -- Labor and Management: Strategies, Structures, and Constraints -- Union Organizing -- Bargaining -- Impasse, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution -- Contract Clauses and Their Administration -- Issues for the 21st Century -- Flexibility, Empowerment, and Partnership -- Globalization -- Comparative Labor Relations -- What Should Labor Relations Do? John W. Budd. Includes index English Industrial relations UNITED STATES 331.880973 B85l 978-0-07-110521-7 251212 20260803094009.0