Ronald W. Schatz, "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era "
English | ISBN: 0252085590 | 2021 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0252085590 | 2021 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, and Marvin Miller) exerted broad influence on the U.S. economy and society for the next forty years. They handled thousands of grievances and strikes. They founded academic industrial relations programs. When the 1960s student movement erupted, universities appointed them as top administrators charged with quelling the conflicts. In the 1970s, they developed systems that advanced public sector unionization and revolutionized employment conditions in Major League Baseball.
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