We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

Norbert Blüm hat sich nach seiner aktiven Zeit in der Politik - zuletzt (1982-1998) als Bundesminister für Arbeit und Sozialordnung - mit einigen Büchern zu Wort gemeldet. Zuletzt mit "Gerechtigkeit" (BA 2/07). Hier wie dort befasst er sich mit der Frage nach der gerechten Gesellschaft - hier...

Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history—the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has...

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the...