Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 2000

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 2000

Editorial.(editor announces changes to editorial team)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2000... Until the current issue, RI/IR has had just two editors: its Founding Editor and certainly the pioneer for the study of industrial relations in Canada, Abbe Gerard Dion from 1945 to 1990; and, from 1991 onwards, our colleague here in the...

New Jobs, New Workers?(paper looks at the effect of organizational restructuring on managers' perceptions of employees)
June 22, 2000... Organizational Restructuring and Management Hiring Decisions Recent studies of work have argued that organizational restructuring and the introduction of technology are altering the nature and experience of work. In this paper, we examine...

The Adoption of Information Technology by U.S. National Unions.(paper examines the use by unions of information technology and the implications of that use for future organizing)
June 22, 2000... This paper offers and tests a model for national union adoption of information technology (IT). Data come from a mail survey of national unions that were active in the U.S. in 1997. Consistent with the model's predictions and prior research on...

Employee Profit Sharing: Consequences and Moderators.(researches examine the effects of employee profit sharing on overall company performance)
June 22, 2000... Although there is substantial evidence that, on average, employee profit sharing improves company performance, little is known about the conditions under which it does so or the mechanisms through which it operates. Based on theory and previous...

Being Local Worldwide: ABB and the Challenge of Global Management.(Review)
June 22, 2000... edited by Jacques BELANGER, Christian BERGGREN, Torsten BJORKMAN and Christoph KOHLER, Ithaca and London: ILR Press, 1999, 281 p., ISBN 0-8014-3650-8. ABB has acquired almost a totemic significance within the management literature for its...

Unemployment Insurance in the United States : Analysis of Policy Issues & Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Unemployment Insurance in the United States : Analysis of Policy Issues sous la direction de Christopher J. O'LEARY et Stephen A. WANDNER, Kalamazoo W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1997,761 p., ISBN 0-88099-174-7 (hardback), ISBN...

Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights edited by Adrienne A. EATON and Jeffrey H. KEEFE, Champaign, Illinois: IRRA, 1999, 303 p., ISBN 0-913447-77-3. This book is the latest in a series of excellent research volumes commissioned...

Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressures at Mondragon.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressures at Mondragon by George CHENEY, Ithaca and London: ILR Press, 1999, 189 p., ISBN 0-8014-3325-8. Mondragon has been widely viewed as a model of workers' participation: a worker...

Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches by Abbas TASHAKKORI and Charles TEDDLIE, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998, 185 p., ISBN 0-7619-0070-5 (cloth: alk. paper) and ISBN 0-7619-007103 (pbk.: alk....

Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems by Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2000, 321 p., ISBN: 0-8014-3674-5. There has been something of a renaissance in...

State-Making and Labor Movements : France and the United States, 1876-1914.(Review)
June 22, 2000... State-Making and Labor Movements : France and the United States, 1876-1914 par Gerald Friedman, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998, 317 p., ISBN 0-8014-2325-2. Comment analyser les differences considerables entre les orientations...

The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium by Andrew Martin and George Ross, et al., New York: Berghahn Books, 1999, 416 p, ISBN 1-57181-167-2 (hc.: alk. paper) and ISBN 1-57181-168-0 (pbk.: alk.paper). ...

La CSN: 75 ans d'action syndicate et sociale.(Review)
June 22, 2000... La CSN: 75 ans d'action syndicate et sociale sous la direction d'Yves Be1anger et Robert Comeau, Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 1998, 339 p., ISBN 2-7605-0965-6. Cet ouvrage est compose de textes issus d'un colloque tenu a...

Patrick Lenihan: From Irish Rebel to Founder of Canadian Public Sector Unionism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... edited by Gil LEVINE, St. John's, Newfoundland: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1998, 203 p., ISBN 1-894000-00-5. At a time when the Canadian labour movement seems intent on splitting into quarrelling jurisdictional factions, it is...

La contestation pragmatique dans le syndicalisme autonome : la question du modele SUD-PTT.(Review)
June 22, 2000... La contestation pragmatique dans le syndicalisme autonome : la question du modele SUD-PTT par Ivan SAINSAULIEU, Paris: L'Harmattan, Collection Logiques Sociales, 1999, 287 p., ISBN 2-7384-7616-3. Pendant longtemps l'approche de la question...

Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition edited by Kathleen BARKER and Kathleen CHRISTENSEN, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1998, 350 p., ISBN 0-8014-8405-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) and ISBN 0-8014-3369-X (cloth: alk. paper). This is...

Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 by Gillian CREESE, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press Canada, 1999, 279 p., ISBN 0-19-54154-3. Contracting Masculinity is a fascinating and provocative...

Derecho sindical.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Derecho sindical par Jose Manuel LASTRA LASTRA, [3.sup.e] edition actualisee, Mexico: Editorial Porrua, 1999, 308 P., ISBN 970-07-1775-5. L'ouvrage du professeur Lastra Lastra, professeur titulaire de droit du travail a l'Universite...

Rethinking the Labor Process.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Rethinking the Labor Process edited by Mark WARDELL, Thomas L. STEIGER and Peter MEIKSINS, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, 276 p., ISBN 0-7914-4282-9. This collection of essays was published to mark the 25th anniversary...

Strategic Human Resource Management: A Reader.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Strategic Human Resource Management: A Reader sous la direction de Christopher MABEY, Graeme SALAMAN et John STOREY, Londres Sage Publications en association avec The Open University Business School, 1998, 334 p., ISBN 0-7619-6032-5 et ISBN...