Part One. Foundations -- Contemporary labor relations: objectives, practices, and challenges -- Labor unions: good or bad? -- Part Two. The U.S. New Deal industrial relations system -- Historical development -- Labor law -- Labor and management: strategies, structures, and constraints -- Union organizing -- Bargaining -- Impasses, strikes, and dispute resolution -- Contract clauses and their administration -- Part Three. Issues for the 21st century -- The evolving nature of work -- Globalization and financialization -- Part Four. Reflection -- Comparative labor relations -- What should labor relations do? -- Appendix A: The National Labor Relations Act (1935, as amended) -- Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) -- Appendix C: A sample NLRB decision -- Appendix D: Collective bargaining simulation: the Zinna and Service Workers Local H-56.
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