Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) [Paperback]

Richard B. Freeman (Editor), Joni Hersch (Editor), Lawrence Mishel (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0226261581 | ISBN-13: 978-0226261584 | Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions.

This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions, the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. Emerging Labor Market Institutions is the story of workers and institutions in flux, searching for ways to represent labor in the new century.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The question of the ability of unions to survive in their current form and pursue their current objectives is an important one. This terrific collection . . . addresses a range of issues clearly and without overt partisanship, yet also represents the viewpoint of workers. . . . Highly recommended."
 

(Choice )

"The editors of this excellent volume select a varied mix of institutions and topics through which contributing authors attempt to discern the future. . . . At a minimum, readers of this volume will come away with a deeper understanding of how current institutions . . . operate in today''s labor market. I suspect that the volume accomplishes more, however, identifying some of the more important sources from which future labor market institutions will emerge."

(Barry Hirsch Industrial and Labor Relations Review ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Richard B. Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, program director of labor studies at NBER, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. Joni Hersch is professor of law and economics at Vanderbilt University. Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute. He is the coauthor of The State of Working America.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226261581
• ISBN-13: 978-0226261584
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
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