Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 2002

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 2002

Editorial.
June 22, 2002... 2002 marks the 57th year of uninterrupted publication for Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations. This track record is a result of the tireless dedication of the Review's editors, its editorial team, and the members of the editorial...

Origines et evolution de la formation a la prevention des risques [much less than] gestes et postures [much greater than] en France.
June 22, 2002... La prevention traditionnelle des risques musculo-squelettiques du travail est orientee selon deux axes quasi independants: l'axe technique et l'axe humain. Les limites de ces approches sont actuellement reconnues par les ergonomes et certains...

Stress at work: A study of organizational-professional conflict and unmet expectations.
June 22, 2002... This study examines how certain conditions of work affect human service workers' job stress. We propose and assess a model of organizational-professional conflict to determine how professional and bureaucratic conditions of work influence...

Verification d'un modele structural a l'egard du conflit travail-famille.
June 22, 2002... Cette etude propose et teste un modele structurel des determinants et des effets du conflit travail-farnille mesure de maniere bidirectionnelle. Les donnees ont collectees par questionnaire aupres de 1 356 employes ayant des responsabilities...

The effect of formal versus informal job security on employee involvement programs.
June 22, 2002... This study examines the effect of employee involvement and job insecurity on employee satisfaction and commitment. A data set incorporating information from employees, managers and government sources in fifteen hospitals in a single...

L'impact des relations industrielles sur la performance organisationnelle.
June 22, 2002... Les relations industrielles (RI) influencent-elles la performance des organisations ? Des donnees financieres de meme que des donnees traitant d'une douzaine de pratiques RI et du climat RI ont ete colligees dans 241 caisses populaires faisant...

Workers' Compensation: Foundations for Reform. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... edited by Morley GUNDERSON and Douglas HYATT, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, 360 pp., ISBN 0-8020-4453-0. British Columbia enacted the first workers' compensation law in Canada in 1902. Other provinces passed similar...

The Future of the Safety Net: Social Insurance and Employee Benefits. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... edited by Sheldon FRIEDMAN and David C. JACOBS, Champaign, Illinois: Industrial Relations Research Association, 2001, 268 pp., ISBN 0-913447-81-1 This most recent volume of the Industrial Relations Research Association series is no...

The Family Division of Labour. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... by Marie-Agnes BARRERE-MAURISSON, Amsterdam: SISWO, 2000,213 pp., ISBN 90-6706-155-7. Barrere-Maurisson is already wellknown in French-speaking countries in the field of family division of labour and on issues related to work-family...

Polarizing Mexico: The Impact of Liberalization Strategy & Growth, Employment and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Book Reviews).(Growth, Employment and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean by Dussel Peters Enrique )(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Polarizing Mexico: The Impact of Liberalization Strategy by Enrique DUSSEL PETERS, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000, 249 pp., ISBN 1-55587-861-X (bound). Growth, Employment and Equity: The Impact of the Economic Reforms...

Work and Employment in a Globalized Era: An Asia-Pacific Focus. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... edited by Yaw A. DEBRAH and Ian G. SMITH, London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001, 264 pp., ISBN 0-7146-5135-4 (cloth). This book sets itself a very ambitious target: it wants to "bring to the fore the diverse impacts of globalization on work...

Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... by Jeremy BRECHER, Tim COSTELLO and Brendan SMITH, Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2000, 154 pp., ISBN 0-89608-622-4. Not long ago, Margaret Thatcher's triumphant "there is no alternative" to global neoliberalism echoed everywhere, the...

Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners' Strike of 1941-42, revised edition. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... by Laurel Sefton MACDOWELL, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2001, 292 pp.' ISBN 1-551-30-159-8. Aptly, Remember Kirkland Lake is the title of both this endearing book and, also, the February 1942 union leaflet acknowledging the defeat...

A Very Red Life: The Story of Bill Walsh. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... by Cy GONICK, St. John's: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2001, 300 pp., ISBN 1-894000-05-6. Bill Walsh has had a very long and colourful career as a Communist labour organizer from the 1930s to the 1960s, and subsequent to his...

Coffret 1 : La boite & idees : volume M : Les pratiques observables du management des equipes et des personnes ; volume P : Le pilotage du management ; Coffret 2 : La boite a outils. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... par Jean-Louis LANGEVIN, Quebec : Cap-Management, 2001, 345 p. (vol. M), 117 p. (vol. P). La serie Cap-Management par l'auteur et consultant Jean-Louis Langevin se presente sous deux coffrets. Le premier contient un volume de base portant...

La nouvelle sociologie economique. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... par Benoit LEVESQUE, Gilles L. BOURQUE et Eric FORGUES, Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 2001, 268 p., ISBN 2-220-04799-7. Dans le champ de l'economie, la predominance de la theorie neoclassique, reconquise a la suite du recul du keynesianisme,...

Discrimination et obligation d'accommodement en milieu de travail syndique. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... par Christian BRUNELLE, Cowansville: Editions Yvon Blais, 2001, 482 p., ISBN 2-89451-473-5. Christian Brunelle, professeur a la Faculte de droit de l'Universite Laval, vient combler un vide doctrinal majeur du droit quebecois du travail en...

Books received/Livres recus.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... ALALUF, Mateo and Carlos PRIETO (eds), Collective Bargaining and the Social Construction of Employment, Bruxelles: ETUI, 2001, 213 p. BLAU, Francine D. and Lawrence M. KAHN, At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International...