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One consequence of the growing international integration of economies has been an erosion of American workers' rights. Employers attempting to meet the pressures of new international competition have had to change the way they organize their work forces and the protections given to their employees. There are more low-wage jobs, more part-time and temporary workers, more subcontractors, reduced benefits, and intensified work schedules. In the current environment, employers have a greater need for highly motivated, hardworking, skilled employees, and have often developed innovative forms of management to enlist these workers' support. Other forces transforming the traditional system have been the decline of unions and the ascendance of conservative policy.

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• Foreword(p. vii)
• Author's Preface(p. ix)
• 6 Enterprise Rights in the Contemporary Firm(p. 134)
• Notes to Chapter 6(p. 159)
• Appendix: State Recognition of Implied Contractsa(p. 233)
• References(p. 241)
• Cases Cited(p. 254)
• Index(p. 257)

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Library Journal Review

A dean at the University of Kentucky, Edwards here proposes new ways of protecting workers' rights, which he claims would also make the workplace more efficient. Edwards finds that the old ways of establishing and enforcing workers' rights are increasingly ineffective, costly, and even counterproductive, particularly as employers strive to cut costs and become more competitive and as labor unions continue to slide in membership and power. The ``protections'' that Edwards puts forth encompass an obligation by employers, union and nonunion, to detail the rights that they unilaterally grant to their workers, and which are legally enforceable, along with an independent system of mediation and arbitration, in place of litigation, to resolve disputes about these workplace rights. Recommended for research libraries with industrial-relations collections.-- Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., CUNY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

As the title indicates, this book explores employees' rights in the workplace and proposes some innovative public policy strategies that would protect the rights of workers while enhancing the ability of employers to succeed in today's highly competitive global environment. Written for the Twentieth Century Fund, this volume is a useful contribution to the growing discussion about workplace rights. In nine chapters Edwards (dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Kentucky) defines workers' rights, traces the changing role of labor unions and legislation in protecting these rights, and offers a new vision of workplace relations that can simultaneously ensure the basic rights of workers while fostering international competitiveness. The book is easy to read and includes a comprehensive reference list. Graduate; professional. T. Gutteridge; University of Connecticut

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Richard Edwards is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, including Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1979).