title: Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations (2nd Edition)
author:  Terry L. Leap 
description: Research-oriented text which is heavily documented and current (1994 cites) While exceptionally manageable, this book never oversimplifies or abbreviates coverage. Offering numerous recent examples of actual labor relations situations and agreements, the text covers the legislative foundation of labor relations, the bargaining process itself, major provisions of collective bargaining agreements, as well as cultural diversity, contingent workers, and alternative forms of dispute resolution and representation. Bargaining units and certification elections as well as a number of current labor relations issues are also thoroughly explored.
zlib_text: Employer and Worker Collective Action
  This book compares sources of worker and employer power in Germany, 
  South Africa, and the United States in order to identify the sources 
  of comparative U.S. decline in union power and to analyze more pre-
  cisely the nature of labor movement power. It finds that this power 
  is not confined to allied parties, union confederations, or strikes, but 
  rather consists of the capacity to translate power autonomously from 
  one context to the next. By combining their product, labor market, and 
  labor law advantages through their dominant employers’ associations, 
  leading firms imposed constraints on labor’s free collective bargaining 
  regionally and nationally, defeating employer interests that are more 
  amenable to labor in the process. Through an examination of these 
  patterns of interest organization, the book shows, however, that initial 
  employer advantages prove to be contingent and unstable and inform 
  subsequent conditions under which employers are