New hire says he's a union organizer

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizer ◽  
New Hire

scholarly journals The dynamics of faculty hiring networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Lee ◽  
Aaron Clauset ◽  
Daniel B. Larremore
Keyword(s):  
Network Models ◽  
Structural Mechanism ◽  
Faculty Hiring ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
Institutional Prestige ◽  
Structural Mechanisms ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Global Placement ◽  
New Hire

AbstractFaculty hiring networks—who hires whose graduates as faculty—exhibit steep hierarchies, which can reinforce both social and epistemic inequalities in academia. Understanding the mechanisms driving these patterns would inform efforts to diversify the academy and shed new light on the role of hiring in shaping which scientific discoveries are made. Here, we investigate the degree to which structural mechanisms can explain hierarchy and other network characteristics observed in empirical faculty hiring networks. We study a family of adaptive rewiring network models, which reinforce institutional prestige within the hierarchy in five distinct ways. Each mechanism determines the probability that a new hire comes from a particular institution according to that institution’s prestige score, which is inferred from the hiring network’s existing structure. We find that structural inequalities and centrality patterns in real hiring networks are best reproduced by a mechanism of global placement power, in which a new hire is drawn from a particular institution in proportion to the number of previously drawn hires anywhere. On the other hand, network measures of biased visibility are better recapitulated by a mechanism of local placement power, in which a new hire is drawn from a particular institution in proportion to the number of its previous hires already present at the hiring institution. These contrasting results suggest that the underlying structural mechanism reinforcing hierarchies in faculty hiring networks is a mixture of global and local preference for institutional prestige. Under these dynamics, we show that each institution’s position in the hierarchy is remarkably stable, due to a dynamic competition that overwhelmingly favors more prestigious institutions. These results highlight the reinforcing effects of a prestige-based faculty hiring system, and the importance of understanding its ramifications on diversity and innovation in academia.

My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Eric W. Sager ◽  
Cyril W. Strong ◽  
Gregory S. Kealey
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizer

High Discounts and High Unemployment

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Discount Rate ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Present Value ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Business Income ◽  
New Hire

Unemployment is high when financial discounts are high. In recessions, the stock market falls and all types of investment fall, including employers' investment in job creation. The discount rate implicit in the stock market rises, and discounts for other claims on business income also rise. A higher discount implies a lower present value of the benefit of a new hire to an employer. According to the leading view of unemployment—the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model—when the incentive for job creation falls, the labor market slackens and unemployment rises. Thus high discount rates imply high unemployment. (JEL E24, E32, E44, J23, J31, J63)

the role of new hire orientation programs

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Dunn ◽  
Dale Jasinski
Keyword(s):  
Orientation Programs ◽  
New Hire

Dreaming in the Delta

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Kristal Brent Zook
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
White Male ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Working Class Women

Abstract In 1990, in Indianola, Mississippi, there was a catfish-processing plant owned by 178 White male farmers. The workforce inside the plant was ninety percent Black and female. Led by an ordinary working mother turned union organizer named Sarah White, the women at Delta Pride led the largest strike of Black laborers ever to take place in that state, and won. Kristal Brent Zook, an award-winning journalist, traveled to Indianola to meet with White and others in an effort to understand the plight of working class women in the modern-day South. What she found there taught her as much about herself, as it did about human rights and dignity in America today.

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