Labor unionsCollective bargainingInequalityRight to workNational Labor Relations BoardSupreme courtThis essay analyzes the effects of Donald Trump's election as President on organized labor in the United States and, more specifically, on the demographic of workers responsible for his electoral college ...
A new survey from Gallup found that support for labor unions is the highest its been since 1965, driven by a desire for better pay and benefits. FromTrader Joe’stoStarbuckstostrip clubs, the American workforce is pushing for better working conditions and job security through the power of labo...
Howard Kimeldorf, "Bringing Unions Back In (or Why We Need a New Old Labor History)," Labor History, 32, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 91-103, followed by responses from Michael Kazin, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, Bruce Nelson, Daniel Nelson, 104-29. See also the roundtable ...
Advanced robots, which the WEF sees as one of the main technological drivers of said revolution, now equipped “with enhanced senses, dexterity, and intelligence”, are not only acknowledged as “more practical than human labor in manufacturing” but also as appearing “in a growing number of ...
Of course, there are many areas of economics and politics where decreasing returns predominate. Classical models of production, especially those applied to natural resources and land, generally incorporate assumptions of decreasing returns (the hundredth unit of land yields less than the first). We ...
Employers act in this way, because if they did allow real pay to fall they would have to pay more in the future than they would have had to otherwise in order to obtain or retain labor. If firms are assumed to be risk neutral, then wages are rigid downward with respect to labor ...
The Rust Belt is also commonly referred to as the Manufacturing Belt and the Factory Belt. Although there is no definitive boundary, the states that are considered in the Rust Belt—at least partly—are: Illinois Indiana Michigan Missouri ...
Maybe we are just deluded think it is our awesome business model. Farm subsidies aren’t big enough by themselves. Our rule of law probably adds a pretty good price premium. Unlike other countries (except England), we’ve almost completely eliminated unions (probably explains Krugman’s point ...
the most natural thing to do when there is a lot of uncertainty is to postpone the decision until there is more information. In this case the relevant decisions are about hiring and firing. If decisions about both are postponed, in general, you get a slowly decreasing unemployment rate and ...
and are considered precarious. In New York’s many community hospitals, which provide an essential first line of defense in the effort to safeguard public health, the danger of failure is particularly acute. Combine growing costs, decreasing revenues, and high debt loads, and you can’t dig ou...