Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory in a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 in Japan, Italy, and Britain. Additionally, the author shows how the theory explains why strikes over job loss almost never occur in postwar unionized firms in the United States.
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"...Heroic Defeats^r is well worth reading..." Chris Tilly, American Journal of Sociology
"The bibliography will prove enormously helpful to the latter. Upper-division undergraduate through professional." Choice
"Heroic Defeats is an important book, both for what it tells us about strikes and for what it tells us about the strengths and limitations of the methodological approach within political science known as `rational choice'." Chris Howell, Industrial & Labor Relations Review
"In general, the book illuminates a number of the factors at play in job loss situations...the book is well written, illuminating, and clear. I recommend it to all with an interest in the issues covered." Bruce Nissen, Labor Studies Journal
"The bibliography will prove enormously helpful to the latter. Upper-division undergraduate through professional." Choice
"Heroic Defeats is an important book, both for what it tells us about strikes and for what it tells us about the strengths and limitations of the methodological approach within political science known as `rational choice'." Chris Howell, Industrial & Labor Relations Review
"In general, the book illuminates a number of the factors at play in job loss situations...the book is well written, illuminating, and clear. I recommend it to all with an interest in the issues covered." Bruce Nissen, Labor Studies Journal
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Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory in a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 in Japan, Italy, and Britain. Additionally, the author shows how the theory explains why strikes over job loss almost never occur in postwar unionized firms in the United States.
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Threatened with the bankruptcy of their employer in 1979, a majority of workers in Chrysler plants in the United States voted for major concessions in wages and benefits in an attempt to reduce the company's need for workforce reductions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mass workforce reductions, shopfloor activists, preventing job loss, permanent workforce reductions, mass job loss, shopfloor representatives, national union officials, shopfloor organization, seniority procedures, exogenous actors, pit closures, steward organization, seniority provisions, personnel reductions, enterprise unionism, industrial action, temporary layoffs, senior stewards, poor industrial relations, median voter model, union activists, union behavior, steward movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, British Leyland, World War, Oriental Economist, Coal Board, Miike Coal, Simple Job Loss Game, United Kingdom, National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, Great Britain, Western European, Yorkshire Area, Hot Autumn, Japan Coal, Turinese Fiat, Blue Newspaper, European Community, General Secretary, Labour Party, Communist Party, Derek Robinson, Fin Union Firm, Japan Labor Bulletin, Jon Elster New!
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Threatened with the bankruptcy of their employer in 1979, a majority of workers in Chrysler plants in the United States voted for major concessions in wages and benefits in an attempt to reduce the company's need for workforce reductions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mass workforce reductions, shopfloor activists, preventing job loss, permanent workforce reductions, mass job loss, shopfloor representatives, national union officials, shopfloor organization, seniority procedures, exogenous actors, pit closures, steward organization, seniority provisions, personnel reductions, enterprise unionism, industrial action, temporary layoffs, senior stewards, poor industrial relations, median voter model, union activists, union behavior, steward movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, British Leyland, World War, Oriental Economist, Coal Board, Miike Coal, Simple Job Loss Game, United Kingdom, National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, Great Britain, Western European, Yorkshire Area, Hot Autumn, Japan Coal, Turinese Fiat, Blue Newspaper, European Community, General Secretary, Labour Party, Communist Party, Derek Robinson, Fin Union Firm, Japan Labor Bulletin, Jon Elster New!
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- The Protestant Ethic And the Spirit of Capitalism by Gilbert Geis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Economy Editions) by Max Weber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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