Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:55:08 -0500 () From: Bruce Nissen To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu Subject: New Book: Unions and Workplace Reorganization X-X-Sender: nissenb@mailhost.fiu.edu For immediate release New Book Explores the Trends in Workplace Reorganization Ever since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and the five-dollar day, U.S. employers have had to pay close attention to how the organization of a workplace and relationships between managers and workers affect economic performance. Employers continue to search for ways to harness employees' energy to achieve maximum efficiency and profit. Unions and Workplace Reorganization edited by Bruce Nissen (Wayne State University Press; $22.95 hardcover; pub. date: February 4, 1998) critically reviews trends in workplace reorganization and develops perspectives on how unions should respond to these trends. Wide in scope, the eleven essays in this collection evaluate and react to the AFL-CIO's 1994 policy statement "The New American Workplace: A Labor Perspective," which is included as a chapter in this volume and is treated as the official position of the U.S. labor movement. Presenting divergent viewpoints and analyses, the contributors discuss the main stances debated or adopted by unions struggling with workplace change. Topics include international comparisons, legal issues, practical experiences with the implementation of or resistance to certain programs, experiences in the public sector as well as comparisons between the private and public sectors, and broad ideological and programmatic visions. The very fate of unions in this country may depend on their ability to deal effectively with the challenge of workplace restructuring; thus, Unions and Workplace Reorganization addresses many of the most important issues currently facing the U.S. labor movement. Bruce Nissen is the assistant director at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Fighting for Jobs (State University of New York Press, 1995). He coedited the anthologies Grand Designs (ILR Press, 1993) and Theories of the Labor Movement (Wayne State University Press, 1987), and edited U.S. Labor Relations 1945-1989 (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990). To order a copy of Unions and Workplace Reorganization, please visit your local bookstore or call 1-800-WSU-READ. ### Alison Reeves Marketing Manager Wayne State University Press The Leonard N. Simons Bldg. 4809 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48201-1309 Tel: (313) 577-4603 Fax: (313) 577-6131 E-Mail: alison.reeves@wayne.edu