Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 1997

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 1997

Gender-based wage differences: the effects of occupation and job segregation in Israel.
June 22, 1997... The existence of income disparity between genders is widely acknowledged (Boulet and Lavallee 1984; Kemp and Beck 1986; Sorensen 1987) and holds true for many countries (e.g., Effroni 1980; Kauppinen-Toropainen, Kandolin and Haavio-Mannila 1988;...

The entrepreneurial role of organized labour in the British Columbia motion picture industry.
June 22, 1997... The eclipse of the once dominant Fordist system of economic organization, and the accelerated efforts among Western elites to dismantle the Keynesian foundations on which it stood, has stimulated considerable analysis of emergent post-Fordist...

What impact has privatization had on pay and employment? A review of the UK experience.
June 22, 1997... One of the most striking features of the period since 1979 in the UK has been the reduction in the size and scope of the public sector. From small beginnings in the early 1980s, privatization in its various forms has come to affect every area of...

Age-related injuries among male and female assembly workers: a study in the Swedish automobile industry.
June 22, 1997... The fatalistic conception that individual physical and mental capacities to cope with occupational demands diminish with age hinders the design of forms of production that might permit the effective and safe employment of older workers. This...

Obesity as a coveted disability under employment discrimination law: an analysis of Canadian approaches.
June 22, 1997... Since the passage of the first anti-discrimination laws in North America, the number of protected groups or classes has slowly expanded. People with disabilities are one of the more recent groups to be covered by such laws.(1) In the past decade,...