#5 - CQ Researcher Bibliography Books and WorldCat Subject Headings

Geoghegan, Thomas, Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement , The New Press, 2014.

- Not available at LSU Library

Labor unions -- United States.

Industrial relations -- United States.

United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.

Hogler, Raymond L., The End of American Labor Unions: The Right-to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining, Praeger, 2015.

- Not available at LSU Library

Collective bargaining -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Collective labor agreements -- United States.

Open and closed shop -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Labor unions -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Labor laws and legislation -- United States.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.

Neff, James, Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa , Little, Brown & Co., 2015.

- Not available at LSU Library

Kennedy, Robert F., -- 1925-1968.

Hoffa, James R. -- (James Riddle), -- 1913-

Labor unions -- Corrupt practices -- United States.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography.

United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.

Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography.

United States. -- Congress. -- Senate. -- Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field.

Rosenfeld, Jake, What Unions No Longer Do, Harvard University Press, 2014.

- Available at LSU Library.

https://lsu.louislibraries.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=4202749{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER

Labor movement -- United States.

Income distribution -- United States.

Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States.

Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.

Walker, Scott, and Marc Thiessen, Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge, Sentinel, 2014.

- Not available at LSU Library.

 Walker, Scott -- (Scott Kevin), -- 1967-

 Wisconsin -- Politics and government -- 1951-

 Governors -- Wisconsin -- Biography.

 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism.

 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / State & Provincial.

 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

#4 - Scholarly article in Academic Search Complete

"Easy In, Easy Out": A Future for U.S. Workplace Representation.

Authors:

Estreicher, Samuel1

Source:

Minnesota Law Review. 2014, Vol. 98 Issue 5, p1615-1636. 22p.

Document Type:

Article

Subject Terms:

*LABOR unions -- Law & legislation

*COLLECTIVE bargaining -- Law & legislation

*DISCLOSURE of information -- Law & legislation

*LABOR laws & legislation

*SECRET ballot

*ELECTIONS -- United States

UNITED States

Abstract:

The article focuses on workplace representation in the U.S. and discusses proposed labor law amendments in 2014. Topics include the use of secret ballot voting to determine labor union representation in workplaces, how to change labor union implementation to look more like political campaigns, and increasing the accountability of collective bargaining agents.

APA citation:

Estreicher, S. (2014). "Easy In, Easy Out": A Future for U.S. Workplace Representation. Minnesota Law Review, 98(5), 1615-1636.

#3 - Book in LSU Libraries catalog

Title:

Unions in crisis? : the future of organized labor in America

Author:

Schiavone, Michael.  

Publisher:

Praeger,

Publication date:

2008.

Physical description

x, 148 p. ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9780275999667

Subject term:

Labor unions--United States.

Subject term:

Labor movement--United States.

Subject term:

Social movements--United States.

Subject term:

Service industries workers--Labor unions--United States.

#2 - Interesting fact about topic (from encyclopedia or CQ Researcher)

"Union membership stood last year at 14.6 million nonfarm private- and public-sector employees, or 11.1 percent of the nation's workforce. In 1983, the first year for which comparable figures are available, unions had 17.7 million members, or 20.1 percent of workers."

From: McCutcheon, C. (2015, August 7). Unions at a crossroads. CQ Researcher, 25, 673-696. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/

#1 - Topic keywords and Boolean search statement

Keywords/Key phrases

• Labor unions
• Labour unions
• Organized labor
• Organized labour
• Trade unions
• Collective bargaining

Boolean Search Statement(s)

• (labor or labour or trade) and (union or unions or organized)
• ‘Collective bargaining'
• ((labor or labour or trade) and (union or unions or organized)) or ‘collective bargaining’