This paper argues that the low cost of information, communication, and interaction on the Web offers trade unions opportunities to improve services and attract members and thus reinvent themselves for the 21st Century. Analyzing current use of the Internet by unions in the United Kingdom and...

Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent. U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important market. Following a general overview of...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Economic Theory of Occupational Choice -- 2. Models of the Labor and Education Markets -- 3. Developments in the Market for Highly Specialized Workers after World War II -- 4. The Cobweb Pattern: the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine innovative union use of the internet in the 2000s and to see whether the major union innovations in the USA and UK mark the advent of “open source” union structures. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews two important innovations,...