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Poemhood, our black revival : history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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Pitfalls in Drawing Policy Conclusions from Retrospective Survey Data: The Case of Advertising and Underage Smoking
Measuring the impact of potentially controllable factors on the willingness of youth to undertake health risks is important to informed public health policy decisions. Typically the only data linking these factors with risktaking behavior are retrospective. This study demonstrates, by means of a recent example, that there can be serious pitfalls in using even longitudinal retrospective data to draw conclusions about causal relations between potentially controllable factors and risk-taking behavior.
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A Critique of the Theoretical Literature
In chapter one we noted that aversion to the wealth maximand, a characteristic of the conventional theoretical literature on unions, is the result of three widely embraced objections to the union-firm analogy. The purpose of this chapter is to review and critique both the objections and the alternative theories of union behavior that they inspired. It will be shown in this and succeeding chapters, that the failure of previous writers to subject the ownership characteristics of trade unions to economic analysis is, in large part, responsible for their failure to develop operational theories of the trade union that are consistent
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Managerial Discretion Within The Union
A labor union, like a publicly held corporation, owes much of its success to its ability in attracting large numbers of “investor-members” who are willing to commit resources to the formation, maintenance, and goal achievements of the organization. These resources may take the forms of initiation fees and dues assessments as well as foregone income resulting from strike and picketing activities. In an important sense these contributions constitute investments, similar to the purchase of equity shares in a corporation, that are expected to yield a net return in the form of positive wage and nonwage differentials in labor markets.¹ Since
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The Nonproprietary Union
There are countless books and articles describing union institutions at all levels and across many separate organizations. These descriptions clearly establish that, except for some filial preference arrangements, the intent of unions has been to prohibit and penalize individual and unauthorized transfers of membership status by incumbents to would-be unionists.¹ Explicit private property in trade union membership exists only in the breach.²
Why haven’t unions included the right to transfer title to memberships in the bundle of rights associated with membership status? At least two explanations suggest themselves. First, additional memberships in a union of nonhomogeneous workers increases the probability
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