Directory

Kate Bronfenbrenner : Publications

2006 

"Significant Victories" (with Tom Juravich).  In Justice on the Job.  Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin, eds.  Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute, 2006.

2005 

"Capital Mobility and Job Loss in Massachusetts: A Look at Production Shifts and Outsourcing" (with Stephanie Luce).  In The Future of Work in Massachusetts. Tom Juravich, ed. Boston, forthcoming.

Transcribed remarks, in "New Unity for Labor?"  (Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss).  Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2005.

"Organizing Women: The Nature and Process of Union Organizing Efforts among US Women Workers since the mid-1990s."  Work and Occupations, Vol. 32, No. 4, November 2005.

"What Is Labor's True Purpose?  The Implications of SEIU's Unite to Win Proposals for Organizing." New Labor Forum. Vol. 14, No. 2: 19-26, Summer 2005

"2004 UALE Conference Papers." Guest editor with Tom Juravich.  Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2005.

"Introduction: Bringing the Study of Work Back to Labor Studies" (with Tom Juravich).  In 2004 UALE Conference Papers.  Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2005.

"Union Organizing among Professional Women Workers." A research study commissioned by the department for professional employees, AFL-CIO and presented at the DPE Conference on Organizing Professionals in the 21st Century, Crystal City, Virginia, March 14-16, 2005.

2004 

"The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: The Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the US, China, and Around the Globe" (with Stephanie Luce). Submitted to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, October 14, 2004.

"Offshoring: The Evolving Profile of Corporate Global Restructuring."  Multinational Monitor. Vol. 25, No. 12, December 2004.

"Changing to Organize: A National Assessment of Union Organizing Strategies," (with Robert Hickey) Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement. Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss eds.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 2004.

New York State AFL-CIO and ILR Labor Program Needs Assessment Survey: Summary Report.  Ithaca, NY: Office of Labor Education Research, 2004.

2003 

"The State of Organizing in California: Challenges and Possibilities." (with Rob Hickey). The State of California Labor: 2003. Ruth Milkman, ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Blueprint for Change: A National Assessment of Winning Union Organizing Strategies. (with Rob Hickey). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Office of Labor Education Research, 2003.

"Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner." Multinational Monitor. Vol. 24 No. 5. May 2003, pp.21-24.

"Out of the Ashes: The Steelworkers' Global Campaign at Bridgestone/Firestone." (with Tom Juravich). Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies, ed. William N. Cooke. Westport CT: Quorum Books. 2003

2002 

Overcoming the Challenges to Organizing in Manufacturing. (with Rob Hickey). Report submitted to the AFL-CIO, December 6, 2002.

"The American Labor Movement and The Resurgence in Union Organizing." Chapter in Trade Union Renewal and Organizing: A Comparative Study of Trade Union Movements in Five Countries, Peter Fairbrother and Charlotte Yates eds.  London: Cassell Academic/Mansell Imprint. 2002. 
  
"Significant victories: The Practice and Promise of First Contracts in the Public and Private Sectors." (with Tom Juravich and Rob Hickey). Paper presented at the AFL-CIO/Michigan State University Conference on  Worker Rights, Lansing, Michigan. October 11-12, 2002
  
2001 

"Changing to Organize." The Nation. Vol. 273, No. 7, September 13, 2001. 

"The Evolution of Strategic and Coordinated Bargaining Campaigns in the 1990s:  The Steelworkers' Experience." Chapter in Rekindling the Movement:  Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century  Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, and Richard W. Hurd eds.

"Impact of U.S.-China Trade Relations on Workers, Wages, and Employment: Pilot Study Report." Commissioned research paper submitted to the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission.  June 30, 2001.

"Uneasy Terrain:  The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing.  Part II:  First Contract Supplement."  Submitted to the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, June 1, 2001.

2000

"Uneasy Terrain:  The Impact of Capital Mobility on Workers, Wages, and Union Organizing."  Submitted to the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission.  September 6, 2000.

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor (with Tom Juravich). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 1999.

Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies.   Editor (with Sheldon Friedman, Richard Hurd, Rudy Oswald, and Ron Seeber). Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, January, 1998.

"The Effect of Plant Closings and the Threat of Plant Closings on Worker Rights to Organize"  Supplement to Plant Closings and Workers Rights: A Report to the Council of Ministers by the Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation, Dallas, TX, Bernan Press: June, 1997.

"The Role of Union Strategies in NLRB Certification Elections."  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol 50, No. 2, January, 1997.

1996 

"Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies for Winning First Contracts."  Proceedings of the Forty- Ninth Annual Meetings (San Francisco, January 5-7, 1996). Madison, WI: IRRA, 1996.

"The Impact of Employer Opposition on Union Certification Win Rates: A Private/Public Sector Comparison" (with Tom Juravich).  Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, Working Paper No. 113. February, 1995.
 
1994 

"Employer Behavior in Certification Elections and First Contracts: Implications for Labor Law Reform." Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law. Sheldon Friedman, Richard Hurd, Rudy Oswald and Ronald Seeber editors. Ithaca N.Y.: ILR Press, 75-89, 1994.

 

 
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