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Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining
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Comments/Reviews
Description: The first book to provide a comprehensive examination of nonunion industrial relations--its definition and parameters, and the causes and factors that led to the nonunion reality, Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining focuses on labor relations in the private-sector labor market, which accounted for about 90% of the sector at the end of 1999. Troy discusses with clarity and authority the transformation in the United States from the organized to the private labor market. Within a two-part format, He first deals with the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive nonunion alternative and then addresses the all-important question, "What makes the nonunion system work?"
Selected Contents:
1. An Alternative System of Industrial Relations
2. Is 1980-1998 a Re-Run of 1920-1932?
3. Setting the Stage for the System Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining
4. Nonunion and Organized Representation Abroad: Differences and Similarities
5. How the Individual (Nonunion) System Works
6. Communication with Employees: Part 1, The Individual Worker
7. Communication with Employees: Part 2, Employee Involvement
8. Terms and Conditions of Employment
9. Competing Industrial Relations Systems
10. Recent Developments in Individual (Nonunion) Employee Relations, US and Internationally
Comment(s): "The best and most comprehensive analysis to date of the decline of organized labor and its prospects for the future. ... Presented with impressive scholarship. ... The book is likely to be the centerpiece of controversies over what will be, and should be, and the role of unions and collective bargaining for many years to come." -- Myron Lieberman, Education Policy Institute
"Leo Troy's ... conclusion is empirically hard to deny: less than 10 per cent of American workers belong to trade unions. Many will nevertheless reject his argument that the market satisfies workers' needs better than collective bargaining. Before doing so, however, they should carefully study his analysis of the transformation of American employee relations from collectivism to individualism." -- George Bain, The Queen's University of Belfast
"Rebuilding the American labor movement requires a hard look at distressing facts. Labor leaders will ignore Troy's book at their peril. While I don't agree with Troy that labor forces an inevitable death, his analysis must be treated seriously." -- Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director, Labor Research Association
"A major book on the fundamental changes in employee representation in the workplace. It sets out clear and compelling evidence of the shift from organized representation to individual representation over the last 50 years. This is a pathbreaking study that places the conventional wisdom in sharp relief. ... Required reading for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and those that care about the future of the American workplace, the well-being of workers and their standard of living, and business competitiveness." -- Edward E. Potter, Employment Policy Foundation, Washington DC
"Troy is to labor what Charles Murray is to welfare or Milton Friedman is to economics: the scholar who tears away the illusions to give us a true picture of what is going on." -- Amity Shlaes, editorial board, Wall Street Journal
"Those who see partnership and new recognition ... yielding a resurgent ... union movement must evaluate Troy's alternative thesis." -- David Metcalf, London School of Economics
Review(s): Beyond Unions is worth reading for many reasons, not the least of them that it reaffirms an important truth: Human interests are better served by freedom than coercion. Ideas on Liberty
Troy effectively makes the case that new approaches to human resources management have actually been dominant factors in the unions' decline...An important addition to any academic library Choice
Troy's wellconsidered evaluation of the American labor movement can provide perspective even for those who disagree. Industrial and Labor Relations Review
    
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