The organization of this dissertation is a topical one, thereby
permitting the reader to locate the information relevant to a specific
academic bargaining issue in a single chapter. Chapters one and two
contain respectively an introduction to problem and a review of the
literature of academic collective bargaining. Chapters three through
seven deal separately and sequentially with the following topics:
jurisdiction, bargaining unit scope, bargaining unit determinations,
ancillary support personnel and unfair labor practices. Each of these
chapters begins "with a short introduction to the subject area followed
by descriptive briefs of the related, landmark cases heard by the
National Labor Relations Board. Following the briefs, there is an
analysis that examines the ramifications of each specific case and
attemps to relate the cases to each other and detail the parallels and
paradoxes between them.
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