labor strike - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II embraced credit access as a means to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

two studies from an online labor market in the United States, and (3) a laboratory experiment. Our findings suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days and that cognitive distractions associated with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious... View Details

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