Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

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Introduction
Richard B. Freeman and Joni Hersch
1. Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets
David Weil

I. Studies of Nonworker Organizations
2. White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy
Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Freeman

3. The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What's Known about Its Impact?
Jared Bernstein

4. The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws
Christine Jolls

II. Studies of Membership-Based Initiatives
5. Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation
Richard W. Hurd and John Bunge

6. A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits
Joni Hersch

III. New Union Opportunities and Initiatives
7. A Submerging Labor Market Institution? Unions and the Nonwage Aspects of Work
Thomas C. Buchmueller, John E. DiNardo and Robert G. Valletta
8. Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Eileen Appelbaum and Larry W. Hunter

9. Development Intermediaries and the Training of Low-Wage Workers
Lisa M. Lynch