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The elusive search for job security : a historical inquiry into dismissals in the United States workplace / Matthias P. Beck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, Matthias, 1964-
- Series:
- Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives
- Economic issues, problems and perspectives series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees--Dismissal of.
- Employees.
- Employees--Dismissal of--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Employees--Dismissal of--Law and legislation--United States.
- Labor laws and legislation--United States.
- Labor laws and legislation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For the majority of employees in the US and elsewhere, their job is by far their most important property; with jobs providing not only a principal source of wealth, but also being a key source of social status and individual psychological well-being. While the US political system provides extensive protection to capital, it paradoxically offers only very limited protection to labor. This lack of protection is evidenced, above all, by the fact that the protection afforded to US workers against unfair, capricious or unnecessary dismissals is amongst the weakest of all industrialized nations. The primary agenda of this book is to map out the institutional choices, which have prevented the comprehensive, European-style, regulation of dismissal in the United States; and to explore how these choices have been supported, modified and maintained against attempts by US workers to secure greater job security. This book examines the issue dismissals and job security in a roughly historical order.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The common law of employment termination
- The failed promise of statutory protection
- Plant level dismissal prtoection
- Unjust dismissal litigation
- Conclusion
- Afterword: Exceptionalism revisited
- List of works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-137) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62081-863-9
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