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Economic models of disputes often assume that the rules of the game are well understood and that parties know the possible consequences of their actions. In this paper we show the apparently unintended consequences of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes that took place in the...
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result, the model predicts that ESOPs will lead to a reduction in strike incidence and in the fraction of labor disputes that … involve a strike. We examine these predictions using U.S. bargaining data from 1970 to 1995. The data suggest that ESOPs do …
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In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...
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Postal workers and the rise of collective bargaining -- Rising expectations and brewing conflict -- The strike begins … -- The strike ends -- Aftershocks and postal reorganization -- The U.S. Postal Service and the postal unions in the 1970s …"For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal 'wildcat' strike--the largest in United …
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Strikes and American History -- Lowell Mill Girls and the Development of American Capitalism -- Slaves on Strike -- The … Eight-Hour-Day Strikes -- The Anthracite Strike and the Progressive State -- The Bread and Roses Strike -- The Flint Sit …-Down Strike and the New Deal -- The Oakland General Strike and Cold War America -- Lordstown and Workers in a Rebellious Age …
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