Coast is issue in wage probe. - Might come to Coulee for less money on 40-hour than 30-hour in Seattle. - One indication of what the federal department of labor might be thinking about in connection with the wage scale that is to prevail in the new Grand Coulee dam construction contract with the...

This thesis deals with three selected dimensions of strategic behavior, namely investment in R&D, mergers and acquisitions, and inventory decisions in dynamic oligopolies.The question the first essay addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of...

Trade Unions also know as Labor Unions are non-profit organizations whose purpose is to represent workers in their work place, negotiate collective bargaining agreements, and enforce those agreements while representing its membership. In the past three decades, United States Trade Union...

China is now, and increasingly, an integral player in the global economy and in international relations. Economic and political restructuring in China today is affecting the lives of millions, yet only a small number of top bureaucrats and wealthy regime-backed entrepreneurs are making the basic...

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Influential men from the steel industry came to Indianapolis and met with Cleo Blackburn and the Board for Fundamental Education. Discussed was the board's adult basic education program in the steel plants of the country. Pictured (left to right) are Fred Hoehler Jr., director of education for...

This paper uses panel data on british manufacturing industries between 1973 and 1985 to examine the relationship between productivity and labour organization. It is shown that the relationship between unions and productivity levels is sensitive to the econometric specification. The evidence...

This project explores the development of the “union idea” and its role in low wage labor markets in the 21st Century.The "labor question" became a central issue in the early 20th century because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself: could a society based...

Wage reviewer invites public. - The general public has been invited to attend and to testify at the wage hearings Monday at 10 a. m. in the government schoolhouse. Carl R. Schedler of the department of labor will be in charge and the evidence will influence the wage to prevail under the next...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2008. Major: Economics. Advisor: Thomas J. Holmes. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 83 pages.