Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 2006

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 2006

Filing a psychological harassment complaint in the workplace: a difficult history/Porter plainte pour harcelement psychologique au travail: un recit difficile/Presentar queja por hostigamiento sicologico en el trabajo: un relato dificil.(Statistical data)
June 22, 2006... Summary Following in the wake of several European countries, Quebec adopted a bill in December 2002 to modify the Labour Code and other legislative measures by the introduction of measures pertaining to psychological harassment (art. 81.18...

Making a difference: knowledge activism and worker representation in joint OHS committees/L'activisme de la connaissance et la representation des travailleurs sur les comites de sante et de securite au travail/Marcando la diferencia: activismo cognitivo y representacion laboral en los comites conjuntos de salud y seguridad ocupacional.(occulational health and safety)(Law overview)
June 22, 2006... This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective health and safety representation within the current Ontario legal regime of internal responsibility. Based on interviews with unionized health and...

Multinational firms and industrial relations in central Europe: an institutionalist approach/Firmes multinationales et relations industrielles en Europe centrale: une approche institutionnaliste/Las empresas multinacionales y las relaciones industriales en Europa Central: una perspectiva institucionalista.
June 22, 2006... SUMMARY This article is based on an institutionalist approach. More exactly, the article is an extension of the "Varieties of Capitalism" analysis. The "Varieties of Capitalism" researchers distinguish two distinct economic and social...

Empirical study of employment arrangements and precariousness in Australia/Etude empirique sur les amenagements du travail et la precarite d'emploi en Australie/Estudio empirico de los contratos de empleo y la precariedad en Australia.(Statistical data)
June 22, 2006... Much research on precarious employment compares permanent workers with one or two other broadly-defined employment categories. We developed a more refined method of examining precariousness by defining current employment arrangements in terms...

The customer service relationship: an inevitable source of pressure for workers?/La relation de service au client: source inevitable de contrainte pour les travailleurs?/La relacion de servicios a la clientela: fuente inevitable de situaciones constrictivas para los trabajadores?
June 22, 2006... SUMMARY Over the past few years, the study of the service relationship (that is to say, work place situations dominated by face-to-face contact with the client or the user) has perceptibly renewed the analysis of ongoing shifts in...

Contracting public services in New York state: labour effects/L'impartition des services publics dans l'Etat de New York : les effets sur la main-d'oeuvre/Contractualizacion de servicios publicos en el estado de New York: los efectos laborales.
June 22, 2006... This study examines 54 cases of restructuring public services in towns and counties in upstate New York. The 54 cases include 39 cases of privatization in the form of contracting out, nine cases of contracting back in, and six cases of...

Beyond the National Divide : Regional Dimensions of Industrial Relations.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Beyond the National Divide : Regional Dimensions of Industrial Relations, publie sous la direction de Mark Thompson, Joseph B. Rose et Anthony E. Smith, Canadian Industrial Relations Association/Association canadienne des relations...

Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation : confrontations et mutations.(book by Marie-Ange Moreau)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation : confrontations et mutations, par Marie-Ange MOREAU, Paris : Dalloz, 2006, 461 p., ISBN 2-247-06950-9. Parmi tous ces ouvrages contemporains consacres a l'impact de la mondialisation sur...

East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation edited by Alan WALKER and Chack-kie WONG, Bristol: The Policy Press, 2005, 235 pp., ISBN 1-86134-552-6 (paperback). This is a timely contribution to the current...

Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada, by Isla CARMICHAEL, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 225 pp., ISBN 0-8020-3647-3. This volume provides an analysis of the power of unions to implement...

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism, by Ileen A. Devault, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004, 244 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8926-1 (paper). United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism by Ileen A. DeVault is an...

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, by Janice Fine, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2006, 316 pp., ISBN 13-978-08014-4423-4. This important book fills three gaps in contemporary labour studies. First, author Janice...

De la conciliation emploi-famille a une politique des temps sociaux.(book edited by Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay )(Book review)
June 22, 2006... De la conciliation emploi-famille a une politique des temps sociaux, publie sous la direction de Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005, 291 p., ISBN 2-7605-1385-8. Le livre coordonne par Diane-Gabrielle...

Corporate Integrity, Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Corporate Integrity, Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership, par Marvin T. Brown, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 272 p., ISBN 0-521-60657-8 (pbk). Qu'appelle-t-on aujourd'hui une organisation integre ? Certes le...

Recent publications/Publications recentes.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2006... I Relations du travail Labour Relations Changing Regimes of Workplace Governance, Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization, and the Challenge to Industrial Relations Theory, Michael J. Piore and Sean Safford, Industrial Relations, 45 (3),...

Books received/Livres recus.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2006... Almond, Phil et Anthony Ferner, editors, American Multinationals in Europe. Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 p. Belanger, Laurent et Jean Mercier, Auteurs et textes classiques...