Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from January 2002

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from January 2002

Tribute to Noah Meltz.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2002... Professor Noah M. Meltz, former President of CIRA and past Director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Industrial Relations, died on January 29th 2002 at the age of 67. Born in Toronto, Meltz earned a Commerce degree from University of...

Introduction.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... The transnational firm is increasingly emblematic of the forces of globalization. Producing at least 25% of the world's Gross Domestic Product and accounting for as much as two-thirds of world trade, employing at least 75 million workers (of...

Entreprises transnationales et droits du travail.(international business enterprises and labor law)
January 1, 2002... La realite globale de l'entreprise transnationale, l'ensemble integre de son activite, s'etend a plusieurs pays, meme si elle est elle-meme le plus souvent juridiquement fragmentee en differentes societes nationales. Dans quelle mesure le Droit...

Pursuing international labour rights in U.S. courts: new uses for old tools.
January 1, 2002... Filing lawsuits in U.S. federal and state courts for workers' rights violations suffered by workers employed by American corporations abroad is one of several strategies for promoting labour rights. Other strategies include use of labour rights...

Le changement dans les organisations: entre structures et interactions.(Organizational Change: The Link Between Structures and Interactions)
January 1, 2002... L'analyse des organisations s'est-elle engagee dans unefausse voie depuis la premiere parution, il y a plus de quarante ans, de la revue Administrative Science Quarterly? Il y aurait eu divorce entre la theorie et l'empirie, le lien aurait ete...

The assault on school teacher bargaining in Ontario.
January 1, 2002... Between 1975 and 1997, school teacher bargaining was conducted under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act (Bill 100). By most accounts, the teacher bargaining law was successful in promoting bilateral settlements with...

How "anti-union" laws saved Canadian labour: certification and striker replacements in post-war industrial relations.
January 1, 2002... This article analyzes the development in Canada of two critical differences between Canadian and U.S. labour policy: union recognition and state regulation of striker replacements. The development of public policy on these issues helps...

Employer resistance to union certification: a study of eight Canadian jurisdictions.
January 1, 2002... This study investigates the prevalence and impacts of employer resistance to union certification applications in eight Canadian jurisdictions. Employer resistance was found to be the norm, with 80 percent of employers overtly and actively...

Strikes in Essential Services. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Strikes in Essential Services by Bernard ADELL, Michel GRANT and Allen PONAK, Kingston, Ont.: IRC Press, Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University, 2001, 272 pp., ISBN 0-88886-543-0. It is clear, from the variety of approaches...

Labor Regulation in a Global Economy. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Labor Regulation in a Global Economy par George TSOGAS, Armonk, New-York, London, England: M.E. Sharpe, 2001, 201 p., ISBN 0-7656-0558-9. L'auteur, Senior Lecturer la Luton Business School, University of Luton, au Royaume-Uni, s'etait...

Globalization and the Canadian Economy: The Implications for Labour Markets, Society and the State. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Globalization and the Canadian Economy: The Implications for Labour Markets, Society and the State edited by Richard P. CHAYKOWSKI, Kingston, Ont.: School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, 2001, 312 pp., ISBN 0-88911-911-2 (bound) and...

Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of Enterprise.
January 1, 2002... Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of Enterprise by Gary HEIL, Warren BENNIS, and Deborah C. STEPHENS, New York: Wiley, 2000, 196 pp., ISBN 0-471-31462-5. I was a student of Doug McGregor. In a way he was my mentor....

Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work.
January 1, 2002... Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work by Joyce K. FLETCHER, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999, 166 pp., ISBN 0-262-06205-4. At a time when organization theory is attempting to come to grips with major...

Work and Family: Research Informing Policy.
January 1, 2002... Work and Family: Research Informing Policy edited by Toby L. PARCEL and Daniel B. CORNFIELD, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. 1999. 288 pp., ISBN 0-7619-1307-6. Research into the interface between the spheres of work and family...

From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks edited by Marino REGINI, Jim KITAY, and Martin BAETHGE, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999, 342 pp., ISBN 0-262-18193-2. This book is part of the extensive MIT-initiated...

La revolution du travail: de l'artisan au manager. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... La revolution du travail: de l'artisan au manager par Rolande PINARD, preface de Dominique Meda, Montreal, Editions Liber, 2000, 342 p., ISBN 2-921569-88-4. Voici un livre qui saura repondre tant aux attentes des lecteurs interesses...

Gustave Francq: figure marquante du syndicalisme et precurseur de la FTQ. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Gustave Francq: figure marquante du syndicalisme et precurseur de la FTQ par Eric LEROUX, Montreal : VLB Editeur, 2001, 371 p., ISBN 2-89005-768-2. Dans cette biographie tres fouille avec ses 371 pages ses 635 notes infrapaginales,...

Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States. (Recensions/Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States by Clete DANIEL, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001, 327 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3853-5. Following the historic, depression era organizing...

Livres recus.
January 1, 2002... Books Received ADELL, Bernard, Michel GRANT and Allen PONACK, Strikes in Essential Services, Kingston, Ont.: IRC Press, 2001, 270 p. BANTING, Keith, Andrew SHARPE and France ST-HILAIRE (eds), The Review of Economic Performance and...