The revision of this classic labor relations text, written by a respected scholar, emphasizes the rapid social, demographic, and economic changes now affecting the workplace. To this end, new chapters on workplace diversity and new work systems have been added. In addition, all material has been thoroughly updated, including important recent court decisions. The text continues to be distinguished by its comprehensive coverage and solid research base.

Labor-Management Relations

Business & Money

Mills, Daniel Quinn

Economics

Mcgraw-Hill College

Mills (business administration, Harvard Business School) examines the expansion and collapse of the economic bubble surrounding information technology stocks in the United States. He compares the American situation to a similar German bubble that had vastly different outcomes, blaming much of the problem on inability of the "financial value chain" of accountants, investment banks, money management firms, and the media to accurately assess the short-term value of companies. The discussion of Enron is mostly limited to one short chapter that relates the collapse of the company to some of the larger processes that Mills details. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble

Mills, D. Quinn

Financial Times Management

Global financial scandals didn't stop with Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco. In fact, they're still notover. In Wheel, Deal, and Steal, Harvard Business School professor Daniel Quinn Mills showsinvestors how imperial CEOs continue to steal from their investors - and how the rules intendedto protect investors continue to fail. Mills outlines comprehensive reforms to clean up the systemand keep it clean. Best of all, he shows small investors how to protect what's left - and maybeeven recover their losses.

Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms

Ft Pr

Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop! Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately. Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough. He also shows how to make the balance real, not just talk; how to make career decisions that promote balance; and how to make course corrections that refine your balance over time. Mills also exposes the potentially disastrous myths and rationalizations many people use to avoid the realities of work/life imbalance--fallacies like "I'll devote all my time to work for 15 years, get rich, and then I'll pay attention to family." Mills' breakthrough work/life courses at the Harvard Business School are helping business people find the balance they're searching for. The techniques he's developed will help anyone struggling to get a grasp on the work/life balance challenge.

Having It All ... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Politics & Social Sciences

Mattu, Sasha K.

Hornby, Kirstin R.

Sociology

Pearson P T R

Construction is one of the nation's most complex and important industries. In terms of employment, it is the largest single industry in the United States; yet there has been no reasonably comprehensive study of the labor market in construction since the 1920s. This work explores the sources of inflationary pressures in construction and the means of reducing them, attempting also to accurately reflect the enormous variety in this industry and in the relationships between contractors and their employees. The book is divided into four sections: Collective Bargaining—which describes the inflation that developed in the late 1960s; Manpower Utilization—including seasonality, manpower planning, and problems of racial imbalance; Formal Training—particularly apprenticeship; and Problems of Public Policy—especially in regard to housing. The study ends early in 1971, at the time of the imposition of wage controls in construction. The author's thorough inquiry into a matter of national significance should lead to a better understanding of the industry and perhaps to a more stable full-employment sector of our economy.

Industrial Relations and Manpower in Construction

Management & Leadership

Mit Pr

Mills and Friesen examine what caused IBM to experience major financial losses and the need to reduce its staff by half. Virtually overnight, IBM went from being one of the most respected firms in the world to one widely condemned. This book describes how the company's violation of two well-established contracts led to its most serious problems. The first was its long-standing relationship with customers, where the implicit agreement was IBM's guarantee of high-quality technology and close-service support. The second was between IBM and its employees, with the implicit commitment to employee security. When IBM abrogated both contracts in the 1980s, its business began to fall apart. Quinn and Friesen describe IBM's experience in terms of broader historical and contextual patterns, and they look at the strategic tasks that IBM now confronts during its comeback. "Mills and Friesen argue their case cogently and clearly."-Washington Post Book World "Chock-full of penetrating analysis."-National Productivity Review "This insightful book is highly recommended for business executives."--Choice

Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM

Friesen, G. Bruce

Biography & History

Harvard Business Review Press

Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power, and provide an action plan for restoring "true" democracy in which politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution.

Democracy and its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline

ROSEFIELDE, STEVEN

Cambridge University Press

Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power, and provide an action plan for restoring "true" democracy in which politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution.

Populists and Progressives

Populists and Progressives alerts readers to dramatic changes in the ideological and political structure of America's Democratic and Republican parties roiling Washington and shaping the 2020 presidential election. America now has four distinct contentious political orientations: progressive, liberal, conservative and populist. The least well understood are the progressives, whose programs are often confused with socialism, and populists stigmatized as reactionaries. Each has its own agenda and presses programs that are incompatible with one another, auguring protracted strife and paralysis. The book carefully elaborates the substance of each movement and analyses the social, political and economic forces driving them. It assesses their staying power and prospects in the 2020 presidential election. The analysis reveals that most contemporary American political commentary is intensely partisan and relies on obsolete notions of Democrat and Republican party doctrine and rivalry, obscuring the transformation of American society, politics and economy. Populists and Progressives assists readers to dispel the fog, allowing them to judge the present danger and help in the search for consensus solutions.

Populists and Progressives: The New Forces in American Politics

Politics & Government

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Beleaguered Superpower: Biden's America Adrift

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Labor-Management Relations

Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble

Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms

Having It All ... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Industrial Relations and Manpower in Construction

Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM

Democracy and its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline

Democracy and its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline

Populists and Progressives: The New Forces in American Politics

Beleaguered Superpower: Biden's America Adrift