Describes how drinking is the norm in certain occupations, and recounts how New York's bridge and tunnel workers, with the help of their union, changed to eliminate the problem

Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational Drinking Culture

Business & Money

Sonnenstuhl, William J.

Economics

ILR PRESS

Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action

The ongoing decline in union membership is generally attributed to an increasingly hostile economic, legal, and managerial environment. Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, and William J. Sonnenstuhl argue that the decline may have more to do with a crisis of union legitimacy and member commitment. They further suggest that both problems could be addressed if the unions return to their nineteenth-century, mutual aid-based roots.The authors contend that the labor movement is characterized by two models of union-member relations: the mutual aid logic and the servicing logic. The first predominated in the early days and encouraged a sense of community among members who worked to support one another. In the twentieth century, it was largely replaced by the servicing model, which asks little of members, who remain loyal only if their leaders deliver increasing wages and benefits.Regaining legitimacy and strengthening member commitment can only happen, the authors claim, if mutual aid logic is allowed to return. They examine three unions in the transportation industry to judge the effectiveness of new programs created after the old model.

Bacharach, Samuel B.

Bamberger, Peter A.

Americans assume that workers do not drink on the job and that, if they do, it is because they suffer from alcoholism rather than because they are conforming to occupational expectations. William J. Sonnenstuhl disagrees. He contends that some occupational cultures encourage heavy drinking. Moreover, his research suggests that the sense of community which motivates drinking can also sometimes inspire workers to break the pattern and work sober.
Revised and updated, this report addresses questions often raised by employers and union leaders developing job-based programs to help alcoholic and other troubled employees. This new edition discusses the efforts of EAP workers, the historical development and key components of EAPs, and the importance of balance in program strategies and in corporate and union responsibilities.

The ongoing decline in union membership is generally attributed to an increasingly hostile economic, legal, and managerial environment. Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, and William J. Sonnenstuhl argue that the decline may have more to do with a crisis of union legitimacy and member commitment. They further suggest that both problems could be addressed if the unions return to their nineteenth-century, mutual aid-based roots.
The authors contend that the labor movement is characterized by two models of union-member relations: the mutual aid logic and the servicing logic. The first predominated in the early days and encouraged a sense of community among members who worked to support one another. In the twentieth century, it was largely replaced by the servicing model, which asks little of members, who remain loyal only if their leaders deliver increasing wages and benefits.
Regaining legitimacy and strengthening member commitment can only happen, the authors claim, if mutual aid logic is allowed to return. They examine three unions in the transportation industry to judge the effectiveness of new programs created after the old model.

Inside an Emotional Health Program: A Field Study of Workplace Assistance for Troubled Employees

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cornell University Press

"Well conceptualized and articulated. Anyone interested in EAPs or the welfare of employees . . . from union or from management will find the work of Sonnenstuhl and Trice useful."--Management and Labour Studies  "Everything one could want to know about employee assistance programs is covered responsibly."--American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Strategies for Employee Assistance Programs: The Crucial Balance (Key Issues (Ithaca, N.Y.), No. 30.)

Trice, Harrison Miller

Ilr Pr

"Well conceptualized and articulated. Anyone interested in EAPs or the welfare of employees . . . from union or from management will find the work of Sonnenstuhl and Trice useful."--Management and Labour Studies "Everything one could want to know about employee assistance programs is covered responsibly."--American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Strategies for Employee Assistance Programs: The Crucial Balance (Key Issues)

Trice, Harrison M.

This study of labor-based peer counseling and referral programs focuses particularly on the transportation industry. The authors document the major role that well-implemented MAPs can play in the prevention and treatment of substance-abuse problems.

Member Assistance Programs in the Workplace: The Role of Labor in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse (I L R BULLETIN)

Management & Leadership

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Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational Drinking Culture

Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action

Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational Drinking Culture

Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action

Inside an Emotional Health Program: A Field Study of Workplace Assistance for Troubled Employees

Inside an Emotional Health Program: A Field Study of Workplace Assistance for Troubled Employees

Strategies for Employee Assistance Programs: The Crucial Balance (Key Issues (Ithaca, N.Y.), No. 30.)

Strategies for Employee Assistance Programs: The Crucial Balance (Key Issues)

Member Assistance Programs in the Workplace: The Role of Labor in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse (I L R BULLETIN)