Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining

The first book to provide a comprehensive examination of nonunion industrial relations -- its definition and parameters, and the causes and factors that led to the nonunion reality. Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining focuses on labor relations in the private -- sector labor market, which accounted for about 90% of the sector at the end of 1999. Troy discusses with clarity and authority the transformation in the United States from the organized to the private labor market. Within a two-part format, Troy first deals with the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive nonunion alternative and then addresses the all-important question, "What makes the nonunion system work?" Chapter 1 A Competitive System of Labor Relations; Chapter 2 Setting the Stage for Individual Representation; Chapter 3 Why Contemporary Labor Relations Do Not Reprise the Pre–New Deal Era; Chapter 4 Preference of Workers and Management for the Individual System; Chapter 5 Employee Communication; Chapter 6 Conditions of Employment; Chapter 7 Is There a Third Way?; Chapter 8 The Organized and Individual Systems in the New Millennium; Chapter 9 Highlights and Summary;