Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Keywords
book review, Techniques of Mediation, Swiss American Historical Society
Abstract
Walter Maggiolo is an old friend of mine from my stay as a labor and cultural attache at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. Our mutual understanding for our ways of thinking is based on our 17 experience of many years in mediating collective labor conflicts between management and unions. Whereas he acted as a General Counsel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C., I was the permanent Secretary of the Conciliation Office (Einigungsamt) in Basel. Only by reading his book did I become fully conscious of the close similarities of our experiences, in spite of the obvious differences between the situation in one Swiss town and that in the United States. He has sent me his book, assuming that it might interest other friends to whom it could provide insight into a particularly congenial aspect of American efforts to foster labor peace.
Recommended Citation
Burckhardt, Lukas F.
(1988)
"A REVIEW OF WALTER A. MAGGIOLO, Techniques of Mediation. New York: Oceana Publications, 1985,"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 24:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol24/iss1/5