"The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. The Golden Key...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. THE PURPOSE AND METHOD OF THE STUDY -- II. THE ECONOMIC SETTING -- III. THE CARPET WORKERS LOSE THEIR UNIONS -- IV. THE UPHOLSTERY WEAVERS FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS -- V. THE HOSIERY WORKERS EXPERIMENT WITH NEW TACTICS -- VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS --...

A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...

Since the mid-1990s the German system of collective bargaining with its traditional dominance of sector-level agreements has been faced by a process of creeping erosion. While the bargaining coverage has shown a steady decline, a far-reaching decentralisation has increasingly undermined the...