>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:55:08 -0500 () >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Bruce Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Labor Research and Action Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: New Book: Unions and Workplace Reorganization >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For immediate release > >New Book Explores the Trends in Workplace Reorganization > >Ever since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and the five-dollar day, >U.S. employers have had to pay close attention to how the organization of a >workplace and relationships between managers and workers affect economic >performance. Employers continue to search for ways to harness employees' >energy to achieve maximum efficiency and profit. Unions and Workplace >Reorganization edited by Bruce Nissen (Wayne State University Press; $22.95 >hardcover; pub. date: February 4, 1998) critically reviews trends in >workplace reorganization and develops perspectives on how unions should >respond to these trends. > Wide in scope, the eleven essays in this collection evaluate and >react to the AFL-CIO's 1994 policy statement "The New American Workplace: A >Labor Perspective," which is included as a chapter in this volume and is >treated as the official position of the U.S. labor movement. Presenting >divergent viewpoints and analyses, the contributors discuss the main >stances debated or adopted by unions struggling with workplace change. >Topics include international comparisons, legal issues, practical >experiences with the implementation of or resistance to certain programs, >experiences in the public sector as well as comparisons between the private >and public sectors, and broad ideological and programmatic visions. > The very fate of unions in this country may depend on their ability >to deal effectively with the challenge of workplace restructuring; thus, >Unions and Workplace Reorganization addresses many of the most important >issues currently facing the U.S. labor movement. > > Bruce Nissen is the assistant director at the Center for Labor >Research and Studies at Florida International University. He is the author >of Fighting for Jobs (State University of New York Press, 1995). He >coedited the anthologies Grand Designs (ILR Press, 1993) and Theories of the >Labor Movement (Wayne State University Press, 1987), and edited U.S. Labor >Relations 1945-1989 (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990). > >To order a copy of Unions and Workplace Reorganization, please visit your >local bookstore or call 1-800-WSU-READ. > >### > >Alison Reeves >Marketing Manager >Wayne State University Press >The Leonard N. Simons Bldg. >4809 Woodward Avenue >Detroit, MI 48201-1309 >Tel: (313) 577-4603 >Fax: (313) 577-6131 >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
