Employment Relations in the United States: Law, Policy, and Practice - Hardcover

Hogler, Raymond L. (Louis)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412904145 ISBN 13: 9781412904148

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Employment is closely connected to wealth, status, and security and is therefore a subject of interest across a range of academic disciplines. Employment Relations in the United States incorporates a wealth of research material from these different specialties to provide a historical perspective on the American workplace and the evolution of legal policies affecting employment. The analysis follows both a chronological and thematic arrangement, beginning with the importance of management practices, the growth of labor organizations and the impact of collective bargaining on employment institutions, and the subsequent rise of individual employment rights enforced through administrative and judicial means. Through its evolutionary approach, the book explains the fragmented, overlapping, and conceptually confusing regulatory environment governing workplace relations. It offers an integrated approach to such important contemporary policy issues as health care coverage, pensions, and effective dispute procedures. The book provides an analytical framework for an understanding of the unique nature of our labor markets and the role of government, employers, and unions.  

Key Features   

• Provides students with the historical background they need to understand how the U.S. system developed and how it differs from systems in other industrialized nations 
• Discusses individual employment rights, including protection from discrimination 
• Covers current policy issues in employment, including raising the minimum wage, the growth of a contingent workforce, and privatizing retirement 
• Offers a unique historical and evolutionary explanation of the nature of employment relations

 
As a general overview of contemporary employment relations, Employment Relations in the United States is a perfect supplement to college courses in employment law, human resource management, and collective bargaining. Human resource managers, mediators, and professionals involved in labor relations will also find this an essential reference.

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond L. Hogler teaches labor relations and human resource management at Colorado State University. He earned Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. He attended Emory University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the University of Wales (Swansea) as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to his employment at CSU, Dr. Hogler taught in the Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University, and in 1994, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Warwick. He is certified as a labor arbitrator by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Over the past two decades, he has published a number of books and articles on employment issues, including a study of employee participation programs and labor law in the United States. In 2007, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law at the Uiversity of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy.

Review:

"An impressive work of meticulous scholarship...provides students with an historical background and context leading to an understanding of how the American system of the organized labor movement developed and just how it differs from system in other industrialized nations. Of special interest is Hogler′s unique historical and evolutionary oriented explanation of the developmental history and nature of employment relations. Highly recommended reading -- especially for students of American employment relations and labor history."

Author: Wisconsin Bookwatch

"Mr. Hogler, a professor of labor relations and human resource management at Colorado State University, presents a superbly written, lucidly argued work. It deserves a wide audience of students as well as experts with a deep interest in today′s ′labor question.′" Author: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW Published On: 2006-02-01

"Employment Relations analyzes the limits of these existing laws in the new political economy and suggests that in order to rebuild sustainable and just employment environments, a revival of worker collective action is crucial. Hogler′s underlying political goal is to frame employment and labor laws in a way that illuminates their inherent connection to wealth distribution, status, and security." Author: Michigan Law Review Published On: 2006-07-13

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1412904145
• ISBN 13: 9781412904148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312