TY - JOUR
T1 - Labor-Management Relations in Public (and Business) Administration
T2 - A Textbook Case?
AU - Bowman, James S.
AU - West, Jonathan P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Unions are a perennial topic of controversy in American society. This article examines the attention that labor-management relations receive in introductory public administration textbooks. These publications define the focus of the field, its paradigm, and its essential elements; they also likely affect how the subject is presented in the classroom. Given the interest in labor-management relations and their place in the administrative state, how is the topic portrayed in beginning texts? This investigation provides an overview of contemporary union activity and a description of the methodology used, followed by the study findings. While all books reviewed give some attention to employer-employee relations, the context and content of the coverage is, at best, modest. The analysis briefly compares public and business administration texts in each subsection of the findings, and generally reveals small differences between them. The conclusion discusses the implications of the data.
AB - Unions are a perennial topic of controversy in American society. This article examines the attention that labor-management relations receive in introductory public administration textbooks. These publications define the focus of the field, its paradigm, and its essential elements; they also likely affect how the subject is presented in the classroom. Given the interest in labor-management relations and their place in the administrative state, how is the topic portrayed in beginning texts? This investigation provides an overview of contemporary union activity and a description of the methodology used, followed by the study findings. While all books reviewed give some attention to employer-employee relations, the context and content of the coverage is, at best, modest. The analysis briefly compares public and business administration texts in each subsection of the findings, and generally reveals small differences between them. The conclusion discusses the implications of the data.
KW - Public sector unions
KW - business administration textbooks
KW - labor-management relations
KW - public administration textbooks
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U2 - 10.1080/15236803.2015.12002209
DO - 10.1080/15236803.2015.12002209
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066319738
VL - 21
SP - 449
EP - 466
JO - Journal of Public Affairs Education
JF - Journal of Public Affairs Education
SN - 1523-6803
IS - 3
ER -