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Bernhardt, Annette; Spiller, Michael W.; Polson, Diana – Social Forces, 2013
Despite three decades of scholarship on economic restructuring in the United States, employers' violations of minimum wage, overtime and other workplace laws remain understudied. This article begins to fill the gap by presenting evidence from a large-scale, original worker survey that draws on recent advances in sampling methodology to reach…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Employment Patterns, Labor, Labor Market
Cresswell, Anthony M.; And Others – 1982
Interviews with persons responsible for interpreting and transmitting labor relations policy to negotiators at the local school district level in New York revealed considerable consistency in the ways the relevant laws, regulations, and legal opinions were assessed and used. Policy interpreters turned first to documents and then to consultants…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization, Labor Legislation
Young, Ruth C.; John, Bruce M. – 1979
Interviews conducted with 36 farmers and 175 migrant farmworkers in western New York showed a substantial change in the role of the crew leader during the period from 1951, when no federal or state laws regulated crew leader-migrant relations, to 1978, when a complex set of regulations interceded in the relationship. Farmer interviews showed that…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attitude Change, Crew Leaders, Economic Change