George W. Brooks

Multiplant units: The NLRB's withdrawal of free choice

Focuses on the National Labor Relations Act and its significance to the development of multiplant units in the United States. Factors that led to the development of multiplant units; Decision made at the General Motors; Disadvantages of the act. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

U.S. Industrial Relations: The Next Twenty Years.

features of these two chapters, for they too contain much of value. A book like Industrial Relations Systems, which sets itself so ambitious an aim and is so all-embracing in the scope of its material, is bound to invite pungent criticism, not least when it betrays some obvious signs of haste in bountiful printing errors and repetitions in the text. It would be a great pity if the really important and fresh insights which it contributes to our understanding of industrial relations should be overshadowed on this account. The need for systematic thought is so great that we should welcome it with open arms and ask for more. The feeling of regret, that I began by expressing, is mingled with a feeling of gratitude that someone of John Dunlops stature, with his immense experience and acute mind, should take this task in hand.