This paper compares the National Labor Relations Board with the French, West German, and Swedish labor courts and the British industrial tribunals. Attributes compared are composition, the effects of politicization on membership appointment and the quality of decisions, the procedural importance...

<base href="www.ilr.cornell.edu">Of all the predictions made in 1947 concerning the future of the Taft-Hartley Act, none seemed safer than that the Act would be substantially amended within a few years. Yet, in spite of the 1948 election returns and unceasing criticism from every quarter, the Act has remained largely unaltered...

Discussions of industry-wide bargaining frequently seem to be predicated on the assumption of an inevitable trend toward more and more widespread negotiation of collective agreements by national unions and employers' associations. Is it correct, however, to assume that the present structure of...

Exploration of the relationship between wages and internal and external modes of skill acquisition for blue-collar workers. Nature of the study; Variables considered in worker training and learning; Benefits of pre-employment sources of worker skills. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)