Work in America,9781576076767

Work in America

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ISBN13: 9781576076767
ISBN10: 1576076768
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): Abc-Clio Inc
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Summary

The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization.

Table of Contents

Contributors and Their Entries xi
Entries by Category xvii
Foreword xxi
Preface xxiii
U.S. Labor and Industrial Relations Historiography: A Review Essay xxvii
Work in America
A
Affirmative Action
1(3)
African American Women and Work
4(4)
African Americans and Work
8(4)
Agricultural Work
12(4)
Amazon.com
16(1)
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
17(2)
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
19(5)
American Slavery
24(8)
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
32(2)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (1990)
34(3)
Apprenticeship
37(4)
Arbitration
41(2)
Asian Americans and Work
43(3)
Automotive industry
46(5)
B
Baldrige Awards
51(1)
Black Lung Disease
52(2)
Blue Collar
54(2)
Bonuses
56(1)
Building Trades Unions
57(6)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
63(1)
Business Roundtable
64(1)
Business Schools
65(2)
Business Week
67(2)
C
Capitalism
69(4)
Careers
73(2)
Child Care
75(2)
Child Labor
77(4)
Civil Service
81(1)
Civilian Conservation Corps
82(2)
Collective Bargaining
84(4)
Communications Workers of America
88(1)
Communism in the U.S. Trade Union Movement
89(4)
Comparable Worth
93(1)
Compensation
94(4)
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) (1973)
98(3)
Computers at Work
101(5)
Consultants and Contract Workers
106(2)
Contingent and Temporary Workers
108(3)
Core Competencies
111(1)
Corporate Consolidation and Reengineering
112(3)
Council of Economic Advisers
115(2)
Cowboys
117(4)
D
Davis-Bacon Act (1931)
121(2)
Day Laborers
123(2)
Defense Industry
125(4)
Defined Benefit/Defined Contribution Plans
129(2)
Deming, W. Edwards (1900--1993)
131(2)
Democratic Socialism
133(3)
Dilbert
136(1)
Disability and Work
136(4)
Domestic Partner Benefits
140(1)
Dos Passos, John (1896--1970)
141(2)
The Dot-com Revolution
143(2)
Downsizing
145(1)
Drucker, Peter F. (1909--)
146(3)
Drug Testing and Substance Abuse in the Workplace
149(2)
Dunlop Commission
151(2)
E
Earned Income Tax Credit
153(1)
Earnings and Education
154(3)
E-commerce
157(3)
Education Reform and the Workforce
160(9)
Elder Care
169(4)
E-learning
173(3)
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (1974)
176(2)
Employee Stock Ownership
178(3)
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
181(3)
Employment at Will
184(1)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
185(2)
Equal Pay Act (EPA) (1963)
187(2)
Ergonomics
189(3)
Estate Tax
192(1)
Export-Processing Zones (EPZs)
193(2)
F
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)(1938)
195(2)
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)(1993)
197(1)
Federal Mine Safety and Health Act (1977)
198(2)
Federal Reserve Board
200(2)
Federal Unemployment Tax and Insurance System
202(2)
Flood Curt (1938--1997)
204(5)
Food Stamp Program
209
Food-service Industry
205(7)
Ford, Henry (1863--1947)
212(3)
Fortune
215(1)
Full Employment Act (1946)
216(3)
G
Garment/Textile Industries
219(3)
Gays at Work
222(2)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
224(4)
General Motors
228(1)
GI Bill
229(3)
Glass Ceiling
232(2)
Globalization and Workers
234(2)
Gold Watch
236(1)
Great Depression
237(3)
Green Cards
240(2)
Greenspan, Alan (1926--)
242(1)
Guilds
243(2)
H
Hawthorne Plant Experiments
245(2)
Haymarket Square Incident
247(2)
Health Insurance
249(5)
High-Performance Workforce
254(3)
Home Economics/Domestic Science
257(5)
Homestead Strike
262(1)
Homework
263(1)
Housework
264(3)
Humphrey-Hawkins Act (1978)
267(4)
I
Immigrants and Work
271(8)
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)(1986)
279(2)
Industrial Engineering
281(1)
Industrial Psychology
282(2)
Industrial Revolution and Assembly Line Work
284(7)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
291(2)
International Business Machines (IBM)
293(1)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
294(1)
Internships
295(1)
Ironworkers
296(3)
J
Job Benefits
299(3)
Job Corps
302(1)
Job Placement and Recruitment Firms
303(1)
Job Security
304(1)
Job Skills
305(3)
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) (1982)
308(2)
Justice for Janitors
310(3)
K
Knights of Labor
313(4)
L
La Follette, Robert (1855--1925)
317(1)
Labor Force
318(2)
Labor Market
320(1)
Layoffs
321(2)
Levittown
323(2)
Lewis, John L. (1880--1969)
325(2)
Lewis, Sinclair (1885--1951)
327(1)
Lifelong Learning
328(2)
Literacy
330(3)
Living Wage
333(1)
Local 1199 Health Care Workers
334(1)
Lowell Strike
335(4)
M
Manpower Inc.
339(1)
Manufacturing Jobs
340(4)
Maquiladora Zone
344(2)
Maritime Trades and Work
346(2)
Meany, George (1894--1980)
348(2)
Meatpacking Industry
350(2)
Medicaid
352(3)
Middle Management
355(2)
Military Jobs and Careers
357(5)
Minimum Wage
362(4)
Mommy Track
366(1)
Mother Jones (1837?--1930)
367(4)
N
National Education Association (NEA)
371(1)
National Labor Relations Act
372(5)
Native Americans and Work
377(4)
New Deal
381(4)
New Economy
385(3)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
388(4)
Nurses and Doctors
392(5)
O
Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
397(3)
Occupations and Occupational Trends in the United States
400(13)
Older Workers
413(1)
On-the-Job Training
414(2)
Outplacement
416(1)
Overtime and the Workweek
417(4)
P
Part-Time Work
421(1)
Pay Equity
422(2)
Pell Grants
424(2)
Pensions
426(2)
Perkins, Frances (1882--1965)
428(1)
Personnel Management
429(4)
Piecework
433(1)
Pink Collar
434(2)
Postindustrial Workforce
436(4)
Prevailing Wage Laws
440(3)
Productivity
443(1)
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Strike
444(2)
Professionals
446(2)
Profit Sharing
448(1)
Prostitution
449(4)
Q
Quality Circles
453(2)
R
Railway Labor Act (1926)
455(2)
Randolph, A. Philip (1889--1979)
457(2)
Recession
459(3)
Retirement
462(3)
Reuther, Walter Philip (1907--1970)
465(2)
Right to Work
467(1)
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884--1962)
468(2)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882--1945)
470(3)
Rosie the Riveter
473(2)
Rust Belt
475(2)
S
Sandburg, Carl (1878--1967)
477(1)
Sayles, John (1950--)
478(1)
Scrip
479(1)
Secretaries
480(2)
Secretary of Labor, U.S.
482(4)
Self-Employment
486(1)
Servants and Maids
487(2)
Severance Pay
489(1)
Sexual Harassment
490(3)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
493(3)
Silicon Valley
496(2)
Sinclair, Upton (1878--1968)
498(1)
Social Security Act (1935)
498(5)
Socialism
503(2)
Solidarity
505(2)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815--1902)
507(2)
Steel/U.S. Steel
509(8)
Steinbeck, John (1902--1968)
517(2)
Steinem, Gloria Marie (1934--)
519(1)
Stock Options
520(2)
Stress and Violence in the Workplace
522(3)
Strikes
525(3)
Suburbanization and Work
528(3)
Summer Jobs
531(2)
Sweatshops
533(1)
Sweeney, John J. (1934--)
534(1)
Swing Shift
534(3)
T
Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856--1915)
537(2)
Teaching
539(3)
Teamsters
542(2)
Telework/Telecommuting
544(3)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
547(2)
Tenure, Academic
549(1)
Terkel, Studs (1912--)
550(1)
Time Cards
551(1)
Total Quality Management
552(3)
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
555(2)
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
557(4)
U
Undocumented Workers
561(2)
Unemployment Rate
563(2)
United Auto Workers
565(3)
United Farm Workers (UFW)
568(3)
United Mine Workers of America
571(4)
V
Vacations
575(2)
Veterans
577(4)
W
Wage Gap
581(2)
Wage Tax
583(1)
Wall Street
584(2)
Wall Street Journal
586(1)
Wartime and Work
587(7)
Welfare to Work
594(3)
White Collar
597(1)
Whitman, Walt (1819--1892)
598(1)
Whyte, William Foote (1914--2000)
599(1)
Women and Work
600(8)
Work and Hispanic Americans
608(4)
Work First
612(1)
Work in Film
613(8)
Work in Literature
621(7)
Work in Television
628(5)
Work in Visual Art
633(9)
Work Sharing
642(1)
Workday
643(1)
Worker Housing
644(2)
Workers' Compensation
646(3)
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) (1998)
649(2)
Working Class
651(3)
Workplace Safety
654(6)
Works Progress Administration
660(1)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
661(4)
Y
Yuppie
665(2)
A Timeline of the American Workforce, the Law, and the Economy: The Struggle for Security and Dignity 667(6)
Trends at Work: Statistical Portraits of America on the Job 673(6)
Internet Resource Guide 679(2)
Index 681

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