Examines the relationship between productivity and wage control in the United States. Description of a wage control program; Productivity as an element in wage determination; Pre-freeze improvement-factor adjustments. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

The proponents of labor arbitration have always claimed as one of its chief merits that this process settles unresolved grievances more quickly than alternative methods such as court action. While this generalization still holds true, the evidence presented in this article reveals that over the...

Asserts that one explanation on the characteristics on trade unions does not have to exclude other explanations. Pressures and political groups within a union; Rejection of economic analyses of unions; Relation between wages and employment; Influence of the market in achieving wage equalization....

The question examined here is that of the impact of increasing prosperity, economic growth, and full employment on the Italian and French labor relations systems. In the case of northern Italy (it being inappropriate to characterize southern Italy as prosperous), the author finds that wages have...

The purpose of this article is to measure and compare the volume and the trend of strike activity in five countries: Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States. Such a comparison ought to throw light on a number of pertinent and persistent questions which have been...