Garth L Mangum
Biographic Data
| ID | 266370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garth L Mangum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mangum |
| SIGNATURE | MANGUM G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Legislation and Public Policy
During the growth years, the operating engineers union feIt strong enough to reach beyond its own immediate institutional concems and pursue legislation designed to improve the lot of the less-advantaged members of society. The union threw its support behind progressive amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act, extended unemployment insurance benefits, Medicare and other enhancements to Social Security, the Area Redevelopment Act of 1961, the M…
Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-93
The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.
The Persistence of Poverty in the United States
Economic Adjustment, Education and Human Resource Development in Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Structural Adjustment as an Inadvertent Enemy of Human Development in Africa
African economies have experienced numerous disruptions since the 1980s, while other parts of the world have significantly prospered. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has become impoverished in absolute and real terms, and today faces the need for some form of an economic miracle. According to the harsh verdict of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, Africa is unable to point to any significant growth rate or satisfactory index of ge…
On Being Poor in Utah
Of Heart and Mind: Social Policy Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan
she chairs a Masters of Management degree program in Children, Youth and Family
Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 1960-1993
The history of reform movements in postwar Eastern Europe is ultimately ironic, inasmuch as the reformers' successes and defeats alike served to discredit and demoralize the regimes they sought to redeem. The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it. Included here are essays …
Labor Struggle in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining
The rural Midwest is undergoing fundamental changes with increased competition from foreign agriculture employment shifts from higher-paying manufacturing to lower-paying service industries the displacement of local small town business by large discount stores and shopping malls overall population declines that threaten the viability of schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, along with an influx of minority groups that has led to stri…
Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990: Linkages between Product and Labor Markets
Part 1 The copper industry and its industrial relations: interactions of the product market and the labour market how about a road map? why another book? a synopsis of the issues joint wage-making after 1946. Part 2 Geography, geology and technology: geographic location geological characteristics of the American deposits a century of technological change. Part 3 Emergence of the copper industry: beginnings of the industry Calumet and Hecla Mining…
Three Worlds of Labor Economics
Looking for Work in the New Economy
Human Renewal in the Revitalization of the Industrial City
Forces following World War II caused a flow of industrial jobs to the suburbs, trapping a central-city minority population unable to compete for the office jobs remaining. Service jobs primarily for the women and a welfare system unwilling to support male-headed families contributed to family breakup. A variety of programs were introduced in response, but the better they worked the worse conditions became because the successful joined the flow to…
The Coal Industry and Its Industrial Relations: Some Union/Nonunion Comparisons
This book addresses the following questions: how do product markets and labor markets interact in a labor intensive industry; how can a union whose members once mined 90 percent of the coal and now mines 40 percent, still dominate the industrial relations system of the industry, bargaining for member, nonmember, miners and management; how did a union which came into being to take wages out of competition eventually come to shield prices from comp…
The Temporary Help Industry: A Response to the Dual Internal Labor Market
The Temporary Help Industry: A Response to the Dual Internal Labor Market
This study of the rapidly growing temporary help industry draws on Commerce Department data and the results of the authors' national mail survey of employers. The authors also conducted interviews in the San Francisco area with employers of temporary help and with representatives of temporary help agencies and labor unions. They provide a taxonomy of employer responses to temporary increases in work loads, ranging from the more intensive use of f…
Job Market Futurity: Planning and Managing Local Manpower Programs
Coming of Age in the Ghetto: A Dilemma of Youth Unemployment
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act: Impact on People, Places, Programs
In Quest of the Manpower Grail: Politics, Planning and Pluralism
Manpower Planning for Local Labor Markets
Metropolitan Impact of Manpower Programs: A Four-City Comparison
A Decade of Manpower Development and Training
Human Resources and Labor Markets: Labor and Manpower in the American Economy
Federal Training and Work Programs in the Sixties
Economic Adjustment, Education and Human Resource Development in Africa: The Case of Nigeria
The Once and Future Revolution: Manpower Policy in the United States
The Why, How, and Whence of Manpower Programs
Short- and long-run factors have influenced the emergence of United States manpower policy. The transition from agrarian to industrial and postindustrial society has had varied effects upon employability in the labor market. Inadequate aggregate demand is a better explanation than structural unemployment as a cause for the manpower problems of the late 1950's. During the 1960's, there has been a shift in the emphasis of manpower policy from those…
The development of local union jurisdiction in the international union of operating engineers
The Integration of Seniority Lists in Transportation Mergers
Grave difficulties are frequently encountered when it becomes necessary, because of business mergers, to pool two or more previously separate groups of employees under a single seniority system. Because of the importance of seniority in the transportation industries, these difficulties have been exceptionally acute there. The authors of this study detail the varying and complex arrangements which have been made in efforts to integrate seniority l…
Are Wage Incentives Becoming Obsolete?
Grievance Procedures for Railroad Operating Employees
This article brings up to date. the experience of the National Railroad Adjustment Board in the performance of its function of arbitrating disputes arising under agreements between the carriers and the operating employees' unions. Since the various studies made about ten years ago (one of which was published in this journal), there have been several significant new developments in NRAB procedures and practices. Although this article reveals a num…
The development of local union jurisdiction in the international union of operating engineers
The Integration of Seniority Lists in Transportation Mergers
Grave difficulties are frequently encountered when it becomes necessary, because of business mergers, to pool two or more previously separate groups of employees under a single seniority system. Because of the importance of seniority in the transportation industries, these difficulties have been exceptionally acute there. The authors of this study detail the varying and complex arrangements which have been made in efforts to integrate seniority l…
The Operating Engineers: The Economic History of a Trade Union
The Operating Engineers: The Economic History of a Trade Union
The Operating Engineers
Wage Incentive Systems
Consolidated Bargaining in California Construction: An Appraisal of Twenty-Five Year's Experience
Automation and Economic Progress
Computers in Public Administration
The Why, How, and Whence of Manpower Programs
Short- and long-run factors have influenced the emergence of United States manpower policy. The transition from agrarian to industrial and postindustrial society has had varied effects upon employability in the labor market. Inadequate aggregate demand is a better explanation than structural unemployment as a cause for the manpower problems of the late 1950's. During the 1960's, there has been a shift in the emphasis of manpower policy from those…
The Once and Future Revolution: Manpower Policy in the United States
Economic Opportunity in the Ghetto: The Partnership of Government and Business
The Manpower Revolution: Its Policy Consequences Excerpts from Senate Hearings before the Clark Subcommittee
d'(( entreprise ) et de ( recherche 6t6mentaire du profit )) n'est pas capable de faire face aux probtemes de la societe ambricaine. Sa survie et, A plus forte raison, la poursuite de sa croissance reposent done maintenant, et de plus en plus, sur les actions publiques. Le r8te des industries liees A la defense est considerable en ce domaine, et la cr6ation d'objectifs de remplacement est de ce fait indispensable. D'autres activites plus purement…
Federal Training and Work Programs in the Sixties
Human Resources and Labor Markets: Labor and Manpower in the American Economy
A Decade of Manpower Development and Training
Metropolitan Impact of Manpower Programs: A Four-City Comparison
In Quest of the Manpower Grail: Politics, Planning and Pluralism
Manpower Planning for Local Labor Markets
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act: Impact on People, Places, Programs
Coming of Age in the Ghetto: A Dilemma of Youth Unemployment
Job Market Futurity: Planning and Managing Local Manpower Programs
The Temporary Help Industry: A Response to the Dual Internal Labor Market
Economics (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Business (18 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works)