Labour problems: cases and readings/by George P. Shultz and John R. Colman

This book has two purposes: to make teaching more exciting for the teacher and to make learning more exciting for the student. We believe that these purposes are best achieved through intimate familiarity with the writings of many different authors and with descriptions of actual cases from the field. The book is a result of our personal search for the kinds of teaching materials in the labor relations and labor economics fields that would bring into the classroom a feel for the complexities of problems on which we all hold strong opinions. The basic orientation is that of economists working toward a course of applied social science. Our experience was probably typical. We started out with a basic text, supplemented by a few reprints of favorite articles put on reserve in the library. As time went on, our list of supplementary materials grew larger and larger. Before long, we were assigning as much reading from "outside" sources as we were from the text.