Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 2008

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 2008

The employment relationship: current research avenues/La relation d'emploi: etat actuel de la question.(Work overview)
June 22, 2008... This introduction presents the five articles selected for this special issue. First, it illustrates how each contribution relates to the social exchange theory, on which this entire special issue is based. The contributions of the five articles...

An analysis of the relation between personality and the attractiveness of total rewards components/Une analyse des liens entre la personnalite et l'attrait des composantes de la remuneration totale/Un analisis de los vinculos entre la personalidad y el atractivo de los componentes de la remuneracion total.
June 22, 2008... This study examines the links between personality and the relative attraction of various total rewards components. A survey approach is adopted, with 967 individuals completing a questionnaire. These individuals are currently employed. Results...

Three answers to imposed precariousness: the case of law-skilled contingent workers/Trois reponses a la precarite subie le cas des interimaires peu qualifies/Tres respuestas a la precariedad: el caso de los trabajadores temporales poco calificados.
June 22, 2008... SUMMARY Three Answers to Imposed Precariousness: The Case of Low-skilled Contingent Workers Insecure and discontinued work has spread significantly in France and in other developed industrialized countries over the last thirty years....

Union discourse and perceived violation of contract: a social contract, based approach/Discours syndical et perception d'une violation de contrat: une approche par le contrat social/Discurso sindical y percepcion de una violacion de contrato: un enfoque segun el contrato social.
June 22, 2008... This article proposes a study of the violation of contract process through a case study. The study is based on a discourse of the union, SUD Michelin, which is contrasted both with those of another union, the CFE-CGC Michelin and of the senior...

Sustainable employment, a form of gift/counter-gift relationship. Form the validation of a paradigm to its lessons/ L'emploi durable, une relation de type don/contre-don: de la validation aux enseignements d'un paradigme/ El empleo durable, una relacion de tipo "don/contra-don". De la validacion a las ensenanzas de un paradigma.
June 22, 2008... SUMMARY There is much research into occupations, and a growing marked interest in what are called "'new careers." These new careers, which are defined in relation to traditional occupations, are typified by lower loyalty and less...

Justice perceptions and organizational commitment: would contingent and permanent workers be different?/Perceptions de justice et implication: les salaries contingents et permanents seraient-ils differents les uns des autres ?/Percepciones de justicia e implicacion: gson los trabajadores eventuales diferentes de los trabajadores permanentes?
June 22, 2008... SUMMARY The traditional work relationship performed on a full-time basis with a single employer is tending to lose its hegemony. Polivka and Nardone (1989) defined these new work arrangements as contingent in opposition to permanent work...

La relative originalite de l'Accord Canada-Peru de cooperation dans le domaine du travail.(Droit du travail)(May 2008 Peru-Canada Work Accord)
June 22, 2008... Le 29 mai 2008, intervenait un accord de cooperation dans le domaine du travail entre la Republique du Perou et le Canada, complement d'un accord de libre-echange entre les deux pays signe le lendemain. A la suite de la mise en veilleuse de...

Traite de sociologie du travail.(book on labor sociology by Thierry Pillon and Francois Vatin)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Traite de sociologie du travail, seconde edition actualisee, par Thierry Pillon et Francois Vatin, Toulouse: Editions Octares, 2007, 520 p., ISBN 978-2-915346-43-5. Resumer, synthetiser, relier entre elles les theses et avancees theoriques...

Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, edited by Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 353 pp., ISBN 0-521-61759-6. Rethinking Work is an edited collection of 15 peer reviewed chapters designed to...

Travail et reconnaissance des competences.(book on labor and work competency by William Cavestro, Christine Durieux, Sylvie Monchatre)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Travail et reconnaissance des competences, sous la direction de William Cavestro, Christine Durieux et Sylvie Monchatre; postface de Hugues Bertrand, Paris : Economica, 2007, 224 p., ISBN 978-2-7178-53-94-0. En France, l'analyse des...

Strategy and Human Resource Management.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Strategy and Human Resource Management, 2nd edition, by Peter Boxall and John Purcell, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, 351 pp., ISBN 978-1-403992-10-9. Whilst this is a review of the above mentioned text, readers should be aware that...

La contractualisation de la relation de travail.(book by Christian Bessy)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... La contractualisation de la relation de travail, par Christian Bessy, Paris: LGDJ, 2007, 317 p., ISBN 978-2-275032-15-3. La place du droit du travail dans l'economie capitaliste ainsi que l'encadrement des choix economiques par des...

What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007, 244 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-7281-7. When this book arrived I eagerly read a...

US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The Promise of Revival from Below.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The Promise of Revival from Below, by Kim Moody, London; New York: Verso, 2007, 289 pp., ISBN 978:1844671-55-7. This book addresses two related matters. First, it...

Unwrapping the European Social Model.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Unwrapping the European Social Model, sous la direction de Maria Jepsen et Amparo Serrano Pascual, Bristol, U.K.: The Policy Press, 2006, 272 p., ISBN 978-1-861347-98-5. Difficile, quand on referme cet ouvrage, de ne pas rester...

Ageing Labour Forces--Promises and Prospects.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Ageing Labour Forces--Promises and Prospects, edited by Philip Taylor, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008, 240 pp., ISBN 978-1-845424-25-1. In the current widespread debate about how to deal with demographic ageing, particularly in the...

Recent publications/Publications recentes.
June 22, 2008... * Relations du travail Labour Relations Are Union Wage Diffrentials in the United States Falling?, McKinley L. Blackburn, Industrial Relations, 47 (3), 2008, 390-418. Improved Metrics for Workplace Dispute Resolution Procedures:...

Books received/Livres recus.
June 22, 2008... BANK MUNOZ, Carolina, Transnational Tortillas--Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008, 216 p. CORNET, Annie et al., GRH et genre: les defis de l'egalite hommes-femmes,...