The Smackdown of the American Worker, How It Happened And What Should Be Done About It.

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The Smackdown of the American Worker, How It Happened And What Should Be Done About It.

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The Smackdown Of The American Worker, How It Happened And What Should Be Done About It tells the story of how this smackdown happened to the American worker through the major events of the authors forty-year professional career in the fields of labor relations, human resources management, and management consulting. It describes the acceptance of unions by management in the 1950s, with some notable exceptions, with the government nurturing this relationship with mediation and conciliation services, the adversarialism that grew in the workplace during the 1960s and 1970s, how organized labor overplayed its hand vis a vis management, how management successfully pushed back on organized labor, how the union prevention movement gathered momentum and changed the face of the American work scene in the 1980s and 1990s from one with a significant number of unionized companies to one largely union-free, how some of these union-free companies built high motivation, high teamwork work forces, and then how globalization, offshoring, privatization, downsizing, outsourcing, and employee leasing transformed this nascent movement of employee-employer pulling together in high performance organizations into the smackdown of the American worker. It also provides information on the following subjects: The Middle Class Squeeze The Great Inflation of the 1970s High motivation human resources programs Elements of counter-union campaigns Day by day record of eight month coordinated bargaining strike in Chemical Industry Executive recruitment consulting What America needs in the way of a new set of labor laws Labor relations/human resources humor

Title: The Smackdown Of The American Worker, How It Happened And What Should Be Done About It
ISBN: 101086
Publisher: Scott, Leonard C.
Additional Features:
softcover, 8.38 x 10.88, 194 pages, 60W
About the Author:
Leonard C. Scott is a human resources professional with more than forty years in the field. He has been a corporate human resources and labor relations executive, has provided human resources consulting services to a broad range of American and foreign owned companies, and has taught business and human resources management courses at several colleges. He has appeared on a number of radio talk shows and made presentations at national and international professional and trade associations. His educational background includes undergraduate and graduate credentials from the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and Cornell University. He lives in Dallas, Texas, and can be reached at His website is found at It contains information on his books, articles, and programs and presentations.

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