Success While Others Fail

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Success While Others Fail is written by Paul Johnston and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0875463355 (ISBN 10) and 9780875463353 (ISBN 13).

Case studies of how some companies (including Xerox, General Electric, Goodyear, and Manpower, Inc.) are designing and implementing training practices to make their organizations more competitive. Thin bibliography. Johnston (sociology, Yale U.) compares and analyzes the experiences of several different public and private sector workforces engaged in new social movement unionism in recent decades, and examines the consequences of employment in political bureaucracy for the demands and the resources of public worker's movement. Discusses the public worker's movement in history, the mobilization of women, and the nurses' strike for comparable worth. Focuses on San Francisco and its suburban areas. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR