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This gripping insider's look at the contemporary American trade union movement shows that reports of organized labor's death are premature In this eloquent and erudite narrative, Steven Henry Lopez demonstrates how, despite a hostile legal environment and the punitive anti-unionism of U.S. employers, a few unions have organized hundreds of thousands of low-wage service workers in the past few years. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been at the forefront of this effort, in the process pioneering innovative strategies of grassroots mobilization and protest. In a powerful ethnography that captures the voices of those involved in SEIU nursing-home organizing in western Pennsylvania, Lopez illustrates how post-industrial, low-wage workers are providing the backbone for a reinvigorated labor movement across the country.

Reorganizing the Rust Belt argues that the key to the success of social movement unionism lies in its ability to confront a series of dilemmas rooted in the history of American labor relations. Lopez shows how the union's ability to devise creative solutions—rather than the adoption of specific tactics—makes the difference between success and failure..
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Cellular manufacturing principles, applied to either administrative work or production, are fundamental building blocks for lean and quick response organizations. Reorganizing the Factory is the definitive reference book in this important area.

Reorganizing work processes into cells has helped many organizations streamline operations, shorten lead times, increase quality, and lower costs. Cellular manufacturing is a powerful concept that is simple to understand; however, its ultimate success depends on deciding where cells fit into your organization, and then applying the know-how to design, implement and operate them.

Reorganizing the Factory presents a thoroughly researched and comprehensive "life cycle" approach to competing through cellular work organizations. It takes you from the basic cell concept and its benefits through the process of justifying, designing, implementing, operating, and improving this new type of work organization in offices and on the factory floor.

The book discusses many important technical dimensions, such as factory analysis, cell design, planning and control systems, and principles for lead time and inventory reduction. However, unique to the literature, it also covers in depth the numerous managerial issues that accompany organizing work into cells. In most implementations, performance measurement, compensation, education and training, employee involvement, and change management are critically important. These issues are often overlooked in the planning process, yet they can occupy more of the implementation time than do the technical aspects of cells.

Includes:
Why do cells improve lead time, quality, and cost?
Planning for cell implementation
Justifying the move to cells, strategically and economically
Designing efficient manufacturing and office cells
Selecting and training cell employees
Compensation system for cell employees
Performance and cost measurement
Planning and control of materials and capacity
Managing the change to cells
Problems in designing, implementing, and operating cells
Improving and adapting existing cells
Structured frameworks and checklists to help analysis and decision-making
Numerous examples of cells in various industries.
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Reorganizing Failing Businesses presents the totality of the restructuring process as it is practiced today, with detailed explanations of the laws, customs, and techniques that are central to restructurings. It analyzes each situation from the perspective of all key constituencies, and explains how the New Bankruptcy Code would operate in that context.Also, addressed is how the new Code interacts with a variety of other legal disciplines, such as the federal securities laws, finance, intellectual property laws, antitrust, tax laws, and environmental laws..
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The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation affecting U.S. national defense in the last 50 years. This act resulted from frustration in Congress and among certain military officers concerning what they believed to be the poor quality of military advice available to civilian decision-makers. It also derived from the U.S. military's perceived inability to conduct successful "joint" or multi-service operations. The Act, passed after four years of legislative debate, designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military advisor to the President and sought to foster greater cooperation among the military services. Goldwater-Nichols marks the latest attempt to balance competing tendencies within the Department of Defense, namely centralization versus decentralization and geographic versus functional distributions of power..
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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A new department called the Dept. of Economic, Industry and Trade Affairs is proposed to enhance the US government's ability to advance its economic interests worldwide and implement trade policies which encourage competitiveness. The existing US Trade Representative and the economic and trade functions of the Commerce Dept. would fall under this new department. The Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., the Trade and Development Agency and the export-assistance program of the Small Business Administration would also be incorporated under this new department.

Citation Details
Title: Reorganizing government for economic growth and efficiency.
Author: Paula Stern
Publication:Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Volume: v12 Issue: n4 Page: p67(6)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Today, what we require in our living spaces has led us to rethink the way we use and design the interiors of our homes. We’re more likely to need large areas to create a home office, play area, storage space, or display for the latest home entertainment equipment. While many of us have good ideas, we can’t always see the ways to carry them out. This magnificently illustrated text leads you through the process and supplies clear and understandable examples demonstrating just how easy it can be to transform your home into a space that fits the way you want to live today.

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