All Posts Tagged With: "workers’ rights"
Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable
Notwithstanding its title, this is not a textbook on labor economics. Rather, as the author stipulates in the introduction, it is “an ideological book.” It is a collection of papers written, sometimes with coauthors, by Block during the 1990s and 2000s on various labor-related topics. Of the 29 chapters, all but three were first published [...]
21May2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedAnd the Winner Is . . .
Someone should give the New York Times the “Most Absurd Headline of the Year” award. On August 22 this appeared on Page One: “Workers’ Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist” The news article by Erik Eckholm “reported” that as China has undergone a transition toward markets, workers’ interests are not effectively represented. Apparently, workers’ organizations [...]
1Feb2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe ILO’s Strange Use of Words
Last June the International Labor Organization (ILO) put forth its “Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.” U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman asserted that the declaration is “a big step forward for the ILO and its members as we enter the 21st century.” John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, called it “an historic breakthrough [...]
1Feb1999 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Moral Obligations of Workers
Mr. Tucker is director of research at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. You hate your boss. Your hours are bad. Your salary is too low, and you haven’t been promoted in years. What’s a worker to do? If you can’t get your way, and just can’t take it anymore, you can quit. In [...]
1May1997 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 1 comment | ContinuedFreedom-for-Labor Day in New Zealand
May 15, 1991, is a day that shall live in glory in the history of the world-wide struggle to free working men and women from the shackles of compulsory unionism. On that date the New Zealand Parliament enacted the Employment Contracts Act (ECA), a piece of legislation that, notwithstanding its two faults, could be used [...]
1Oct1996 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued-
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