"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber...

Aufgrund steigender Kundenansprüche und wachsendem Wettbewerbsdruck sind die Unternehmen gezwungen ihre Wirtschaftlichkeit zu sichern und massive Einsparungen vorzunehmen. Das Personal, als wichtigste Ressource eines Unternehmens, ist ein entscheidender Ansatzpunkt zur Erreichung der...

Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...