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    612-822-4611

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What's the Beef?: Sixty Years of Hard-Won Lessons for Today's Leaders in Labor, Management, and Government

What's the Beef?: Sixty Years of Hard-Won Lessons for Today's Leaders in Labor, Management, and Government

Blumer, Tansy Howard
Horvitz, Wayne L.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLaborManagement

ISBN10: 0761844813
ISBN13: 9780761844815
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: Dec 3 2008
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Where to start when recounting a career spanning over sixty years which included some of the most significant disputes in the history of U.S. labor management relations? Horvitz starts with lessons learned at his famous father's knee. The father, Aaron Horvitz, was a pioneering labor arbitrator whose name is known and respected by anyone who has ever been seriously involved in the field of labor relations.

The story takes off on its own trajectory when Horvitz engages as a young management player in dramatic and sometimes bizarre plant disputes in Bayonne and Perth Amboy, N.J., and Rome, N.Y., and then dives into the enormous labor problems arising from the introduction of containerization on the West Coast waterfront where he meets some of the most colorful figures in labor history and provides snatches of conversation and hilarious stories of their interactions. Horvitz then transports us to the East Coast and a stint in the Carter Administration as the nation's top mediator only to find himself thrust into some of the longest longshore and coal strikes in recent history and a colorful but nonetheless near-disastrous dispute at the Metropolitan Opera. Ultimately, he finds himself up to the eyeballs in the deregulation and disruption of the airlines industry, airline mergers, and the convoluted problems caused by the outmoded cost structure of the nation's railroads.

A gifted storyteller, Horvitz gives us a front row seat throughout his lively saga, remembers the most delicious details, and tells only the best stories. While a long term member of the management fraternity, he nonetheless includes an impassioned and articulate argument for the revitalization and restructuring of the now-diminished art of collective bargaining in the global economy.

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