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No. 1. Governmental protection of labor's right to organize : summary of evidence introduced at a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board -- No. 2. -- No. 3. Collective bargaining in the newspaper industry -- No. 4. Written trade agreements in collective bargaining. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Issued by: the National Labor Relations Board.

Claims in which ethnic communities seek separation or autonomy (eg, secessionist efforts of the Baltic people in the former USSR) are investigated. Ethnic group claims of autonomy take on one or a combination of two basic approaches. Under the historical sovereignty approach, self-determination is invoked to restore the asserted sovereignty of a historical community. Three aspects of international law that limit this approach (the so-called doctrine of intertemporal law, the phenomenon of "recognition," & a normative trend toward stability through pragmatism over instability) are discussed. Under the human rights approach, self-determination arises within international law's expanding lexicon of human rights concern & is posited as a fundamental right that attaches collectively to groups of human beings. It is contended that this approach, despite its appeal, raises a specter of destabilization contrary to international law's normative trends & should not be equated with a right to independent statehood. Two significant impediments facing the human approach to ethnic autonomy claims include the individualistic bias toward human rights conceptions within modern international law & the ability of the doctrine of state sovereignty to impede the capacity of international law to regulate matters within the spheres of authority asserted by states recognized by the international community. S. Millett

The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economyThe population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Şevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and human development of Turkey over the past two hundred years.Taking a comparative global perspective, Pamuk investigates Turkey's economic history through four periods: the open economy during the nineteenth-century Ottoman era, the transition from empire to nation-state that spanned the two world wars and the Great Depression, the continued protectionism and import-substituting industrialization after World War II, and the neoliberal policies and the opening of the economy after 1980. Making use of indices of GDP per capita, trade, wages, health, and education, Pamuk argues that Turkey's long-term economic trends cannot be explained only by immediate causes such as economic policies, rates of investment, productivity growth, and structural change.Uneven Centuries offers a deeper analysis of the essential forces underlying Turkey's development-its institutions and their evolution-to make better sense of the country's unique history and to provide important insights into the patterns of growth in developing countries during the past two centuries.

Counter to extant stylized facts, using newly available data on country allocations in US investors' foreign equity portfolios we find that (i) US investors do not exhibit returns-chasing behavior, but, consistent with partial portfolio rebalancing, tend to sell past winners; and (ii) US investors increase portfolio weights on a country's equity market just prior to its strong performance, behavior inconsistent with an informational disadvantage. Over the past two decades, US investors' foreign equity portfolios outperformed a value-weighted foreign benchmark by 160 basis points per year. JEL: C58, G11, G15