Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from March 2001

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from March 2001

Local Unions and Workplace Restructuring: Introduction.
March 22, 2001... Local unions are receiving renewed research attention as changing regimes of labour regulation in many industries and nations highlight the challenges facing local unions in the context of workplace restructuring. These challenges come from...

Managing the Multinationals: An International Study of Control Mechanisms.(Review)
March 22, 2001... by Anne-Wil KATHE HARZING, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, 425 pp., ISBN 1-84064-052-9. There is now a well-established literature on control mechanisms in multinational companies (MNCs). This book adds to this literature by attempting to...

Partenariat, avec ou sans democratie.(labor-management parnterships in Quebec pulp and paper mills)
March 22, 2001... Cet article traite des rapports entre le partenariat et la democratie au travail. Sur la base d'une recherche ion gitudinale effectuee dans six usines de pates et papiers au Quebec, nous dressons d'abord un portrait des innovations...

Labour Markets, Flexible Specialization and the New Microcorporatism.
March 22, 2001... The Case of Canada's Major Appliance Industry "High performance" management systems in unionized workplaces have the potential to create a more microcorporatist industrial relations system in Canada. Increasing interfirm and intrafirm...

Creating and Sustaining Local Union Capabilities.
March 22, 2001... The Role of the National Union Drawing on case study evidence from the automotive, steel, and glass making industries, this article examines the role played by the national union in shaping local unions' abilities to develop and sustain...

Restructuration industrielle et action syndicale locale.
March 22, 2001... Le cas de l'industrie du papier au Quebec La restructuration de l'industrie du papier au Quebec a eu un impact majeur sur 1'action syndicale. Cet article presente les changements intervenus dons les pratiques syndicales de la Federation...

Reasonable Notice for Wrongful Dismissal.
March 22, 2001... Court versus Human Resource Decisions This study identifies and compares the severance compensation determinants of legal and human resource (HR) professionals, using court cases and a policy-capturing HR survey. Results confirmed that HR...

What Kind of Commitment Does a Final-Earnings Pension Plan Elicit?
March 22, 2001... In a sample of 427 employees in a large, unionized public utility company, we examined the incentive effects of a final earnings pension plan on employees' commitment to the organization. Two types of organizational commitment, affective and...

News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change.(Review)
March 22, 2001... by Timothy MARJORIBANKS, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 221 pp., ISBN 0-521-77280-x and 0-521-77535-3. News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change is an international comparative study of...

European Trade Unions: Change and Response.(Review)
March 22, 2001... sous la direction de Mike RIGBY, Roger SMITH et Teresa LAWLOR, London et New York: Routledge, 1999, 252 p., ISBN 0-415-17043-5. Cette edition collective sur les syndicats europeens, ou plus justement -- marketing mis a part -- sur les...

Redaction d'une convention collective : guide d'initiation.(Review)
March 22, 2001... sous la direction de Serge TREMBLAY, Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2000, 161 p., ISBN 2-7605-1102-2. A l'initiative de la Centrale des syndicats democratiques, Serge Tremblay reunissait un groupe de travail compose...

Ghislain Dufour temoigne des 30 ans du CPQ.(Review)
March 22, 2001... par Ghislain DUFOUR, Montreal Les Editions Transcontinental, 2000, 541 p., ISBN 2-89472-135-8. Rares sont les ouvrages dont on peut dire que le titre en revele le contenu, Celui-ci en est un. Son objet n'est pas de faire l'histoire du...

New Paths in Working Time Policy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... edited by Jean-Yves BOULIN and Reiner HOFFMANN, Brussels: ETUI, 1999, 211 pp., ISBN 2-930143-42-S. This book is a timely analysis of the issues involved in formulating new approaches towards the reduction and organization of working time...

Le temps de travail de ceux qui ne le comptent pas.(Review)
March 22, 2001... par Bernhard Brunhes Consultants, sous la direction de Danielle KAISERGRUBER, Paris Editions d'Organisation, 1999,206 p., ISBN 2-7081-2265-7. Titre provocateur, comme le fut Ia legislation francaise en imposant toutes les entreprises la...

Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations.(Review)
March 22, 2001... edited by Gerald HUNT, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999, 302 pp., ISBN 1-56639-717-0 and 1-56639-718-9. For the majority of industrial relations academics whose training and research keep us focused on the classical problems of...

Les nouvelles frontieres de l'inegalite: hommes etfemmes sur le marche du travail.(Review)
March 22, 2001... sous la direction de Margaret MARUANI, Paris : La decouverte/MAGE, 1999, 283 p., ISBN 2-7071-2891-0. Voici un ouvrage tres interessant stir la question des differnces hommesfemmes stir le marche du travail. En effet, comme l'indique...

L'intervention ergonomique: un regard sur la pratique professionnelle.(Review)
March 22, 2001... par Fernande LAMONDE avec la collaboration de Philippe Beaufort, Toulouse: Octares, 2000, 143 P., ISBN 2-906769-58-4. Cet ouvrage traite de l'intervention profesionnelle en s'appuyant sur la pratique de l'ergonomie. Cependant, les...