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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on the USA not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also examines labour relations practices and developing trends. It provides a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting. Both individual and collective labour relations are covered in ample detail, with attention to such underlying and pervasive factors as employment contracts, suspension of the contracts, dismissal laws and covenant of non-competition, as well as international private law. The author describes all important details of the law governing hours and wages, benefits, intellectual property implications, trade union activity, employers' associations, workers' participation, collective bargaining, industrial disputes, and much more. Building on a clear overview of labour law and labour relations, the book offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. It will find a ready readership among lawyers representing parties with interests in the USA, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative trends in laws affecting labour and labour relations.

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Alvin L. Goldman received his AB from Columbia University in 1959 and his LLB from New York University in 1962. After practicing law in New York City, specializing in labor relations, he began full-time teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1965 and was granted emeritus status in 2008. Prof. Goldman served as Professor in Residence to National Labor Relations Board Member Sam Zagoria during the 1967-68 academic year, was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Labor Law, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, in 1973, and was Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of California-Davis, in the 1976-1977 academic year. In addition, he is a labor arbitrator. Professor Goldman is a member and a former Chair of the Labor Law Group Trust for which he prepared Processes for Conflict Resolution (BNA 1972) and coauthored Legislation Protecting the Individual Employee (BNA 1982 with R. Covington), and Legal Protection for the Individual Employee (West 1989, 1996, 2002 with M. Finkin, C. Summers and K. Dau-Schmidt). He also authored Settling for More: Mastering Negotiating Strategies and Techniques (BNA 1991) and The Supreme Court and Labor-Management Relations Law (D.C. Heath 1976), coauthored Negotiation: Theory and Practice (Kluwer Law International, 2003 with J. Rojot), and has written chapters for several books including Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies (Kluwer). He is US co-reporter for International Labour Law Reports (Martinus Nijhoff) and is past Chair of the US Branch, International Society for Labor Law and Social Security.

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