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Global Competition and the American Landscape - as We Enter the 21st Century, New York University 52nd Conference on Labor (Proceedings of New York University Annual Conference Series)
Global Competition and the American Landscape as We Enter the 21st Century New York University 52nd Conference on Labor - Proceedings of New York University Annual Conference Series Author:Samuel Estreicher The global advance of the market economy exposes the American workforce to ever-greater competition from foreign product and labor markets. As a consequence, employers and employees in all forms of enterprise find themselves building new and complex relationships in order to maintain mutually acceptable levels of compensation, security, and trus... more »t. In order to describe the contours of current global realities in labor and employment, to discern salient trends, and to formulate alternatives for dealing with the most pressing implications for the American workforce, New York University's Annual Conference on Labor for 1999 focused on the subject of global competition. Now in its 52nd year, this influential Conference has long been recognized as the premier forum for bringing together legal practitioners, academics and researchers, government officials, representatives of companies and labor unions, and human resources specialists to explore solutions to problems in the American workplace. This important book presents the papers presented at the 52nd Conference, with several additional papers. In its pages nearly fifty noted American labor and employment experts offer penetrating analyses of developments and trends in such areas as the following: + Job security; + Contingent work arrangements; + The growth of the service sector; + The decline of labor unions; + Employee contractual rights; + The effect of foreign labor and employment law on the US workforce; + Statutory minimum term and 'just cause' worker protection laws; + Employee ownership; + The growing importance of intellectual property rights in employment relationships; + Employment dispute resolution; and + International labor standards.For employment law practitioners and academics, business executives, human resource managers, and government labor regulators, these papers provide a valuable cross-disciplinary perspective on some of today's most urgent workplace issues.« less