This note presents findings from the first longitudinal study of the administrative practices of American unions. Our surveys, conducted in 1990 and 2000, gathered information on the hiring, human resource, and financial/strategic planning practices of U.S.-based national and international...

The extent to which ethnic discrimination affected the employment opportunities of immigrants at the turn of the century is a topic of continuing interest to economic historians. While some studies find that immigrants did experience occupational crowding, the evidence regarding the general...

This article argues that contemporary antislavery activism in the United States is programmatically undermined and ethically compromised unless it is firmly grounded in a deep understanding of the African American past. Far too frequently those who claim to be “the new abolitionistsâ€...

In the throes of the automotive industrys collapse, General Motors (GM) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) agreed to a plan for making the companys U.S. assembly plants more competitive through greater labor-management collaboration. The partnership between the union and the employer at GMs...

This dissertation examines cross-national differences in the extent to which CEOs matter to firm outcomes. To address this issue, I build on the construct of managerial discretion, or latitude of action. Most research in this domain has focused on the firm-level and industry-level factors that...