Labor Management Relations

Topic Leader: 
Peter Berg

There is a growing consensus in our research community that America needs a new labor policy that better supports workers' voices and freedom of association and that promotes labor-management practices capable of achieving high rates of innovation, productivity and wage growth. This research cluster takes stock of the nation’s labor laws and discusses the range of options that are being advanced to reform, modernize, and transform labor-management relations policies and practices in ways that better match the needs and aspirations of today’s workforce and employers.

 

Research

Jeffrey Keefe's picture

This paper examines the consequences of the collapse of the national bargaining structure in the American meat industry during the 1980s...

Jeffrey Keefe | November 27, 2012
Richard Hurd's picture
Thomas A. Kochan's picture

I am posting this paper on new labor organizations in the U.S. by my Japanese colleague Ken Yamazaki, deputy senior researcher at the...

Thomas A. Kochan | August 6, 2012
Chris Tilly's picture

Abstract: With full-time jobs, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality. However, in sectors where full-time...

Chris Tilly | May 15, 2012
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld's picture

Challenges to public-sector collective bargaining drive a return to “first principles” regarding underlying rights in the...

John Schmitt's picture

In the early 1980s, over half of the...

John Schmitt | July 31, 2011
Dale Belman's picture

This paper investigates the impact of Project Labor Agreements on school construction cost in Massachusetts. While simple models exhibit...

Dale Belman | April 5, 2011
Daniel J.B. Mitchell's picture

A statistical overview of public and private sector unionization in California.

Daniel J.B. Mitchell's picture

California has long had an active system of direct democracy. This article explores union involvement and non-involvement in the...