Part One: Foundations

Chapter 1 Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges

Chapter 2 Labor Unions: Good or Bad?

Part Two: The U.S. New Deal Industrial Relations System

Chapter 3 Historical Development

Chapter 4 Labor Law

Chapter 5 Labor and Management: Strategies, Structures, and Constraints

Chapter 6 Union Organizing

Chapter 7 Bargaining

Chapter 8 Impasses, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution

Chapter 9 Contract Clauses and Their Administration

Part Three: Issues for the 21st Century

Chapter 10 Flexibility, Empowerment, and Partnership 

Chapter 11 Globalization

Part Four: Reflection

Chapter 12 Comparative Labor Relations 

Chapter 13 What Should Labor Relations Do?

Appendix A: The National labor Relations Act

Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Appendix C: A Sample NLRB Decision