To gain insights into labor's past, it is useful to explore not only union organizing, collective bargaining, and labor legislation, but also what workers thought, how they work and lived, and their impact of workers on the larger society.
It was not surprising since most of the other steel plants in the region had already shuttered or cut operations, But the impact of workers leaving the area to look for work and the skyrocketing unemployment decimated the local economy.
In our interview today, Ed Miliband apologises for the last Labour government being too slow to recognise voters' concerns about the impact of workers from the new EU member countries on the way people live – on pay, jobs, schools and housing – and suggests ways of tackling some of the concerns.
We first focus on the potential impact of workers' age.
This month HBR launched a new series, Rebel Talent, to explore the impact of workers who break the rules.
The value added function yields parameter estimates for the average impact of workers with different educational levels, while the wage equation estimates the respective impact of each educational group on the average wage bill paid by the firm.
This situation impacts millions of workers age 55-64 who face declines in living standards and may fall into poverty in just ten years.
When we looked at the ESOP companies alone, our most interesting finding was the impact of worker participation.
In our model extensions, we study the impact of worker turnover and knowledge depreciation on the design and use of effective KFNs.
"Reducing the pay of existing employees was nearly unthinkable because of the impact of worker attitudes," he wrote in his book "Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession," summarizing the view of a typical executive he interviewed.
