For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence in the richest nation in the world. Providing a wealth of data and cogent analysis, this book can be used along with Programs for additional background, or can stand on its own. "This volume demonstrates more starkly than its parent the persistence of poverty in this nation. Though some individuals and families manage to escape it, the phenomenon diminishes not at all—or at least very little . . . Having been sobered by this thought, the student may ponder what more might conceivably be done to reduce the incidence of that endemic economic and social disease."—from the Preface
York, took over in 1980. From that point on, the United States Postal Service found itself bargaining with an aggressive and well-organized opponent. Through the history of the postal workers' struggle this exciting book provides a panoramic view of federal workers' labor relations from the nineteenth century to the present day, and a glimpse of what may happen in the future.
The story of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), AFL-CIO, during the period 1960-1993, drawing on extensive interviews of members. Part I traces the causes and consequences of the union's rapid growth during the period 1960-75. Part II covers a period of marked membership decline and the beginnings of the recovery during the years 1975-93, and closes with an appraisal of the union's future. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.
First Published in 1988. More than ever before, the economics profession is divided among three competing schools of thought. Especially in labor economics, neoclassical, institutional, and radical perspectives contend, each approaching its analysis of issues from different world views and separate sets of assumptions. This book presents four issues in labor economics, income distribution, racial discrimination, comparable worth and the international division of labor.
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