Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from March 2002

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from March 2002

Trade union recognition and Australia's neo-liberal voluntary bargaining laws.
March 22, 2002... When Australia deregulated its economy in the 1980s, political pressures built up leading in the 1990s to the dismantling of Australia's industry-wide conciliation and arbitration systems. New laws established regimes of collective bargaining...

Decollectivist strategies in Oceania.
March 22, 2002... Each action of a decollectivizing employer--be it in the realm of employment practices, information or relational actions--has both real and symbolic dimensions that may be inclusivist, exclusivist or both. While many attempts at decollectivism...

L'emergence des associations paralleles dans les rapports collectifs de travail.
March 22, 2002... Des jeunes salaries quebecois reprochent a leurs syndicats de ne pas tenir suffisamment compte de leurs interets dans la negociation de leurs conditions de travail. Ils ont ainsi fonde leurs propres associations en reaction a la facon dont le...

The social relations of productivity: a longitudinal and comparative study of aluminium smelters.
March 22, 2002... This article uses time-series data from two aluminium plants from Canada and the U.K. to analyze the social relations of productivity. The eventual turn to teamwork reflected, not hard evidence that productivity change had dried up, but a...

Le role des strategies externes et internes dans le choix des politiques de remuneration.
March 22, 2002... La presente etude, realise aupres de 252 entreprises quebecoises, a permis de mettre en evidence que les politiques de remuneration sont davantage influencees par les strategies intemes de l'organisation que par leurs strategies externes. Plus...

Decentralization in the public sector: the case of the U.K. National Health Service.
March 22, 2002... Decentralization has been an important international development in large organizations, including those in the public sector, in recent years. The introduction of self-governing trusts in the U.K National Health Service in the early l990s...

Government administered workplace surveys and industrial relations in Canada. (Comment).(Workplace and Employee Survey)
March 22, 2002... In his recent essay on government administered large-scale workplace surveys, John Godard (2001) has challenged researchers to consider the advantages and disadvantages of using these data sets in industrial relations research. Godard focused...

What? Me worry? A reply to Chaykowski and Slotsve.
March 22, 2002... Large-scale, government-conducted workplace surveys can prove a major boon to academics, providing data that enables them to address a whole host of questions and issues with a level of sophistication otherwise not possible. Yet there are a...

Initiation a la negociation collective. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... par Jean SEXTON, Quebec : Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2001, 157 p., ISBN 2-7637-7840-2. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de [much less than] presenter les premiers elements, les valeurs, les principes debase, les postulats et les principales...

What's a Good Job? The Importance of Employment Relationships. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by graham low and grant schellenberg, ottawa: canadian policy research networks, 2001, 117 pp., ISBN 1-896703-53-4. In What's a Good Job? Lowe and Schellenberg expand our understanding of work by focusing on "changing employment...

Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by William B. GOULD IV, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000, 449 pp., ISBN 0-262-07205-X (hc: alk. paper), 0-262-57155-2 (pbk). The presidency of William Jefferson Clinton was launched amidst a flurry of reformist zeal. Health insurance and...

Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Leo TROY, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999, 224 pp., ISBN 0-76560469-8 (hardcover) and 0-7656-0470-1 (pbk). Leo Troy is well-known to Canadian readers for two particularly controversial articles he has written about the North American...

Ou va le temps de travail? (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Sous la direction de Gilbert DE TERSSAC et Diane-Gabrielle TREMBLAY, Toulouse : editions Octares, 2000, 284 p., ISBN 2-906769-64-9. Il faut le dire d' emblee, Ou va le temps de travail, produit de la cooperation internationale et...

Nos temps modernes. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... par Daniel COHEN, Paris: Flammarion, 2000, 161 p., ISBN 2-08-067886-8. Dans un style simple et dynamique, Daniel Cohen analyse les [much less than] temps modernes [much greater than] du travail en les considerant a la fois sous les aspects...

Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... edited by Michael E. GORDON and Lowell TURNER, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2000, 310 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8706-4. Gordon and Turner set out to provide compelling evidence that unions can survive and grow if labour is willing to co-operate across...

Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in Multinational Companies. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Guglielmo MEARDI, Aldershot Gower, 2000, 311pp., ISBN 0-7546-1426-3. In the words of Meardi, this book concerns the transformation of class consciousness. It tries to show how trade union experiences and differences are not merely the...

"Heal Thyself:" Managing Health Care Reform. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Pat ARMSTRONG, Hugh ARMSTRONG, Ivy BOURGEAULT, Jacqueline CHOINIERE, Eric MYKHALOVSKIY and Jerry P. WHITE, Aurora: Garamond Press, 2000, 171 pp., ISBN 1-55193-024-2. It is intriguing and disheartening to review this book at a time when...

Les dynamiques de la PME: approches internationales. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... sous la direction de Bruno COURAULT et Philippe TROUVE, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000, 404 p., ISBN 2-11-088612-9. La prise en compte dans les analyses economiques et sociologiques du role des entreprises de faible taille...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... BAMBER, Greg J., Funkoo PARK, Changwon LEE, Peter K. Ross and Kaye BROADBENT, Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific, London: Business Press, 2000, 258 p. CARD, David and Rebecca M. BLANK (eds), Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform, New...