Readings in labor economics / Francis S. Doody.

This book contains articles from various journals, including Monthly Labor Review (published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics), American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Labour Review, and others.

Includes index.

The theory of labor organization --- Wages and productivity -- The form of wage payments -- Wage differentials -- Minimum wages -- Causes of strikes -- Extent and nature of collective bargaining -- Industry-wide bargaining -- Union security -- Problems and trends in collective bargaining -- Union wage policies -- Wages policy and business cycles -- Social security The theory of union growth Horace B. Davis Factors affecting the trend of real wages Alvin H. Hansen Union wage and hour policies and employment Waldo E. Fisher Union participation in high productivity William Gomberg Incentive pay in American industry, 1945 - 1946 Joseph M. Sherman Premium pay provisions in selected union agreements Monthly Labor Review (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) staff Paid vacations and sick leave in industry, 1945 - 1946 Edyth M. Bunn Regional wage differentials: 1907 - 1946 Joseph W. Bloch Wage differences in local labor markets Lloyd G. Reynolds Wages and the movement of factory labor W. Rupert Maclaurin and Charles A. Myers The economics of minimum wage legislation George J. Stigler Some effects of a minimum wage upon the economy as a whole Weir M. Brown Geographical aspects of a minimum wage John V. Van Sickle Economic changes and industrial unrest in the United States Dale Yoder Strikes under the Wagner Act John V. Spielmans Extent of collective bargaining and union recognition, 1946 Monthly Labor Review (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) staff The organized business in America Neil Chamberlain Collective bargaining with associations and groups of employers Monthly Labor Review (US Bureau of Labor Statistics) staff Problems of industry-wide or regional trade agreements David A. McCabe The dilemma of the closed shop John V. Spielmans Union security and its implications Louis Stark The seniority problem in mass production industries Frederick H. Harbison Has collective bargaining failed? George W. Taylor The economics of wage-dispute settlement John R. Dunlop Some reflections on the "labor monopoly" issue Richard A. Lester The changing character of American industrial relations Sumner H. Slichter Are we becoming a "laboristic" state? Sumner H. Slichter The theory of union wage rigidity Joseph Shister The responsibility of organized labor for employment Sumner H. Slichter Wages policy and business cycles E. Ronald Walker The impact of social security legislation upon mobility and enterprise Sumner H. Slichter Experience rating in unemployment compensation Charles A. Myers Our pension madness -- and possible cures John J. Corson Social insurance in evolution Eveline M. Burns Report to the President of the United States on the labor dispute in the basic steel industry, general summary submitted September 10, 1949 Samuel I. Rosenman, David L. Cole, and Carroll R. Daugherty

"This book is intended primarily as a supplement for collegiate courses in labor. it consists principally of outstanding articles selected from leading economic journals. The editor has not hesitated to include controversial papers, but he has excluded the more difficult articles that might well be found in a group of readings for the professional economist. The articles from economic journals have been supplemented by descriptive material from the Monthly Labor Review and be a few thought-provoking papers that were written originally for lay consumption. All articles are reprinted in their entirety in order to preclude misrepresentation.
"As a group, the papers represent the recent tendency to emphasize 'labor economics' rather then 'labor problems." Also apparent here is the growing recognition of collective bargaining as a subject of special importance in the whole field of labor ...." -- from author's preface