Garth L. Mangum

Labor struggle in the post office : from selective lobbying to collective bargaining

The rural Midwest is undergoing fundamental changes with increased competition from foreign agriculture employment shifts from higher-paying manufacturing to lower-paying service industries the displacement of local small town business by large discount stores and shopping malls overall population declines that threaten the viability of schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, along with an influx of minority groups that has led to strife in some communities. Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future. The contributors are well known experts in their fields, and in these original, previously unpublished materials they offer suggestions on how the Internet and other technological advances offer new opportunities for rural economies that local leaders can build on.

Capital and labor in American copper, 1845-1990 : linkages between product and labor markets

Part 1 The copper industry and its industrial relations: interactions of the product market and the labour market how about a road map? why another book? a synopsis of the issues joint wage-making after 1946. Part 2 Geography, geology and technology: geographic location geological characteristics of the American deposits a century of technological change. Part 3 Emergence of the copper industry: beginnings of the industry Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Anaconda Company American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) Kennecott Copper Corporation Phelps Dodge Corporation other prominent producers. Part 4 The copper market to the end of World War II: the demand for copper U.S. supply prices and competition. Part 5 The roots of copper industry unionism: industrial relations federation organization near oblivion reinvigoration communist infiltration. Part 6 Changing industry structure, 1946-1990: Anaconda Dennecott Phelps Dodge ASARCO Cyprus Minerals Magma and Newmont other companies. Part 7 The product market in the postwar era: the Korean period Vietnam to OPEC industry organization consumption trends supply trends production costs price trends. Part 8 Unionism, collective bargaining, and the labour market, 1946-1966: the problem of structure in nonferrous collective bargaining bargaining developments and relations. Part 9 Collective bargaining developments and negotiations, 1967-1990: the Great Strike negotiations and other developments collapse of the pattern system the turn of the decade. Part 10 The past as prologue and instruction: the industry and its product markets interaction of labour and product markets some lessons from the labour market the future of the copper industry.

The coal industry and its industrial relations. Some union/nonunion comparisons

This book addresses the following questions: how do product markets and labor markets interact in a labor intensive industry; how can a union whose members once mined 90 percent of the coal and now mines 40 percent, still dominate the industrial relations system of the industry, bargaining for member, nonmember, miners and management; how did a union which came into being to take wages out of competition eventually come to shield prices from competition as well and what is causing the erosion of that power; how can the environmental threats of an industry be compromised with its essential resource role; with all of its traditional markets dead or dying, how coal has survived through electric power generation; and what is the future of the industry.