Taking the high road in Milwaukee: the Wisconsin regional training partnership

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This article examines the role of the Center on Wisconsin Startegy in experimenting with interrelationships between employers and labor in building institutions that support business practices focusing on quality, employee training, innovation and cooperation. The authors suggests ways organized labor can use sectoral development strategies to encourage employeers to move towards a more positivist future.

Wisconsin, Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Employers, Business planning, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Labor's missing organizational revolution

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The author provides suggestions on how unions must change in order to respond to corporations' organizational changes. A brief history of the US labor movement, positive economic impact of corporate managerial change, techniques of labor organizing, and the need for increased union membership participation are examined.

Methods, Evaluation, Economic aspects, Organizational change, Labor movement

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