Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from January 2001

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from January 2001

New Dawn or Bad Moon Rising?(Workplace and Employee Survey, Work and Employment Relations Survey, Workplace and Employee Survey, Australian Work and Industrial Relations Survey)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Large Scale Government Administered Workplace Surveys and the Future of Canadian IR Research This article discusses the potential advantages of large scale, government administered workplace surveys and the limitations of these surveys in...

Unionism in Canada and the United States in the 21st Century.
January 1, 2001... The Prospects for Revival Based on a review and comparison of recent developments in organizing, collective bargaining and political action, this paper considers the potential for union revival in Canada and the United States. Although...

L'eclatement de l'emploi traditionnel.(full-time employees and temporary workers)
January 1, 2001... Les defis poses par la diversite des emplois typiques et atypiques L'emploi traditionnel eclate de plus en plus pour donner naissance a une grande diversite d'emplois atypiques. Ce nouveau phenomene, qui est encore mal connu, pose de...

Social Investment by Union-Based Pension Funds and abour-Sponsored Investment Funds in Canada.
January 1, 2001... This study has two objectives: first, to understand the extent of social investment among union-based pension funds as well as labour-sponsored investment funds in Canada; second, to understand the factors that affect social investment...

The Erosion of the Country of Origin Effect.
January 1, 2001... A Case Study of a Swedish Multinational Company Over the last two decades, Swedish capital has undergone a rapid internationalization. This has presented a significant challenge to the distinctive nature of the Swedish economy in general...

Le metier de preventionniste.(safety practitioners)
January 1, 2001... Contexte de travail et profils d'activites Cet article presente les resultats d'un sondage conduit aupres de preventionnistes representant l'ernployeur (n = 111) et de preventionnistes representant les travilleurs (n = 134) afin de mieux...

Pour un modele renouvele d'intervention en sante au travail dans les petites entreprises.(interventions in occupational health in small firms)
January 1, 2001... Cet article rapporte les resultats d 'une etude de perceptions des interventions en sante au travail dans le contexte des petites entreprises, une realite qui a jusqu 'ici ete peu etudiee malgre l' importance de ce type d'entreprise au plans...

On the Convergence of Labour Rights and Human Rights.
January 1, 2001... Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards New York: Human Rights Watch, 2000, ISBN 1-56432-251-3 www.hrv.org/reports/2000/uslabor/ Your Voice at Work: Global...

Les logiques de la reciprocite. Les transformations de la relation d'assistance aux Etats-Unis et an France.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Par SYLVINE MOREL, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000, 317 p., ISBN 2-13-050928-2. L'ouvrage de Sylvie Morel offre unbel exemple de l'interet et des difficultes des exercises de comparasion inter-nationale dans le domaine...

The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States.(Review)
January 1, 2001... by Marie GOTTSCHALK, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000, 320 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3745-8 (cloth) and 0-8014-8648-3 (paper). Alone among industrialized nations, the United States lacks a program guaranteeing universal access to health care....

The Rise and Development of collective Labour Law.(Review)
January 1, 2001... sous la direction de Marcel VAN DER LINDEN et Richard PRICE, Beme Peter Lang, 2000, 458 p., ISBN 3-906760-36-7. Necessite de relier l'emergence et le development des droits nationaux regissant les rapports collectifs du travail a...

New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Stephen A. HBRZENBERG, John A. ALIC, and Howard WIAL, Ithaca, New York: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1998, 216 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3524-2. This thought-provoking book is about the new economy with particular reference to the service...

Becoming Lean : Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Sous la direction de Jeffrey K. LIKER, Porland, Oregon : Productivity Press, 1997, 535 p., ISBN 1-56327-173-7. Cet ouvrage innovateur reussit de facon convaincante a concretiser l'amaigrissement d'un procede ou d'une organisation. Le...

The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka.(Review)
January 1, 2001... by Naila KABEER, London: Versa, 2000, 464 pp., ISBN 1-85984-804-4. Naila Kabeer's book The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka provides a fascinating insight into the dynamics influencing...

Droit de l'arbitrage de [5.sup.c] edition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... par Rodrigue BLOUIN et Fernand MORIN, Cowansville : Editions Y von Blais, 2000, 766 p., ISBN 2-89451-398-4. L'ouvrage Droit de l'arbitrage de grief des professeurs Rodrigue Blouin et Fernand Morin n'a pas a etre presente aux praticiens et...

Gestion de la remuneration : theorie et pratique.(Review)
January 1, 2001... par Roland THERIAULT et Sylvie ST-ONGE, Montreal : Gaetan Morin, 2000, 780 p., ISBN 2-89105-738-4. Cet ouvrage constitue, en fait, une mise a jour importante d'un precedent ouvrage de Roland Theriault paru en 1992 chez le meme editeur sous...

The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, 2nd edition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... by Richard RASHKE, Ithaca: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2000, 448 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8667-X. Karen Silkwood was killed on November 13, 1974, at 28 years of age while driving to meet a reporter from the New York Times with...