Chicana Leadership or Labor Markets and Employment Relationships

Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader

Author: Yolanda Flores Ed Flores Niemann

Chicana Leadership: The "Frontiers" Reader breaks the stereotypes of Mexican American women and shows how these women shape their lives and communities. This collection looks beyond the frequently held perception of Chicanas as passive and submissive and instead examines their roles as dynamic community leaders, activists, and scholars.

Chicana Leadership features fifteen essays from the notable women's journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies that demonstrate the strength and diversity of Chicanas as well as their continuing struggle to have their voices heard. Noted scholars discuss issues ranging from the feminist prototype La Malinche to Chicana writers and national ideology, from gender and identity to ideas of culture and romance, and from tokenism to the diversity within the Chicana community. The essays provide an introduction to an evolving understanding of this diverse community of women and how they interact among themselves, with their community, and with the world around them.

Book about: Labor Relations or The Faith of George W Bush

Labor Markets and Employment Relationships: A Comprehensive Approach

Author: Joyce Jacobsen

This innovative text grounds the economic analysis of labor markets and employment relationships in a unified theoretical treatment of labor exchange conditions. In addition to providing thorough coverage of standard topics including labor supply and demand, human capital theory, and compensating wage differentials, the text draws on game theory and the economics of information to study the implications of key departures from perfectly competitive labor market conditions. Analytical results are consistently applied to contemporary policy issues and empirical debates.

• Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the analysis of labor market phenomena.

• Features graphical in-chapter analysis supplemented by technical material in appendices.

• Incorporates numerous end-of-chapter questions that engage the analysis and anticipate subsequent results.

• Includes innovative chapters on employee compensation methods, market segmentation, income inequality and labor market dynamics.

• Balances theoretical, empirical and policy analysis.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Boxes
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Introduction: Labor Economics and the Political Economy of Labor	1
Pt. I	Labor Supply and Demand	23
Ch. 1	Labor Supply	25
Ch. 2	Labor Demand	56
Ch. 3	Perfectly Competitive Labor Markets	89
Ch. 4	Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets	115
Pt. II	The Labor Exchange	145
Ch. 5	The Structure of Labor Exchange	147
Ch. 6	Strategic Labor Exchange	169
Ch. 7	Bargaining in Labor Exchange	199
Ch. 8	Imperfect Contracting in Labor Exchange	221
Pt. III	The Employment Relationship	247
Ch. 9	The Nature of the Employment Relationship	249
Ch. 10	Employee Compensation and Incentive Provision	273
Ch. 11	Employment Continuity and Internal Labor Markets	297
Ch. 12	Employee Representation in the Workplace	324
Pt. IV	Labor Market Divisions	347
Ch. 13	Wages and Working Conditions	349
Ch. 14	Education and Ability	374
Ch. 15	Employee Characteristics and Discrimination	398
Ch. 16	Employer Characteristics and Market Segmentation	434
Pt. V	Labor in the Market System	457
Ch. 17	Earnings Inequality	459
Ch. 18	Unemployment	489
Ch. 19	Labor Market Dynamics	518
	Index	543