This study provides the opportunity to compare the hiring and employment practices, within the context of local conditions, as they exist in five major ports. I

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The advance of trade unionism in the early 20th century to a dominant place in the American economy brought a major change in the life of the nation. This is th

This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical debate about the origins of the instit