Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 1993

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 1993

Women and industrial relations theory: no room in the discourse.
June 22, 1993... 1 I am very much indebted to Linda Briskin and Patricia McDermott, the organizers of the Workshop on Women and Unions held at York University during the winter of 1991-92. It was their invitation to present a paper to that group that challenged...

Sex differences in a pink-collar occupation.
June 22, 1993... Are there differences in the experience of men and women in relatively low status, female-dominated, non-professional, clerical-secretarial occupations? We know that occupations are segregated by gender, and that female-identified jobs are...

Measuring bargaining power through grievance outcomes: results from an Ontario steel mill.
June 22, 1993... This paper proposes a method of measuring bargaining power that uses grievance outcomes as indicators of bargaining power. Since bargaining power is still poorly conceptualized the burden of this paper is fourfold: 1) to operationalize the...

Union impacts on the receipt of workers' compensation benefits.
June 22, 1993... Recent research demonstrates that occupational fatality and non-fatal injury rates are higher in Canada than in most industrial nations (Digby and Riddell 1986; Marsollier and Stobert 1990). In a recent study, Meng (1991) shows that reported...

Are conclusions of union commitment robust to empirical techniques employed?
June 22, 1993... The hypothesized relationships in any topic area are subject to empirical verification. The statistical methods usually employed for this verification are regression, correlation, or path analytic techniques. Though additional methods exist like...