Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from March 2003

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from March 2003

L'ethique en negociation collective: la perception de conseilleres et conseillers syndicaux quebecois.(research on ethical thinking in collective negotiations with input from reps from Quebec's largest trade unions )
March 22, 2003... La litterature specialisee est peu loquace sur les regles d'ethique specifiques a appliquer lors du processus de negociation collective. Cet article tente de dresser un premier portrait de ces regles. Suite a des entrevues aupres de...

Multiple risk factors for violence to seven occupational groups in the Swedish caring sector.
March 22, 2003... Violence towards health-care personnel represent an increasing problem, but little is known in terms of how different occupational groups are affected. A questionnaire was sent to a stratified sample of 2,800 of 173,000 employees in the Swedish...

Le chomage des jeunes au Quebec et au Canada: tendances et caracteristiques.(unemployment of youth in Quebec and in Canada)
March 22, 2003... Dans cet article, nous presentons, tout d'abord, les grandes lignes d'evolution du chomage des jeunes au Quebec et au Canada, depuis 1976, ainsi qu'une serie de facteurs a la source de cette evolution. Nous comparons, en deuxieme lieu, le...

Earnings supplements and job quality among former welfare recipients: evidence from the self-sufficiency project.
March 22, 2003... The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) offered a generous but time-limited earnings supplement to a randomly assigned group of lone parents--who were also long-term social assistance recipients--if they round full-time work and left social...

Le plafonnement de carriere: etude dans une municipalite au Quebec.(career plateaus, a study in a Quebec municipality in the 1990s)
March 22, 2003... La litterature en etudes managerielles et en gestion des ressources humaines avance depuis plusieurs annees que le sentiment de plafonnement de carriere que connaissent de plus en plus d'individus serait l'un des principaux effets pervers des...

Unions and tangible investments: a review and new evidence in France.
March 22, 2003... A number of conflicting theoretical hypotheses have been advanced regarding the impact of unions on investment behaviour. The net impact of unions on investment is thus an empirical issue. In this article, the available empirical literature is...

Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 by Peter MCINNIS, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 258 pp., ISBN 0-8020-3563-9. In Harnessing Labour Confrontation, Peter McInnis takes the...

Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Rural Dimension of Welfare Reform sous la direction de Bruce A. WEBER, Greg J. DUNCAN et Leslie A. WHITENER, Kalamazoo, Mich. : W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002, 498 p., ISBN 0-88099-239-5 (pbk), ISBN 0-88099-240-9 (alk.)....

Immigration and American Unionism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Immigration and American Unionism by Vernon M. BRIGGS Jr., Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001, 215 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3870-5 (cloth) and ISBN 0-8014-8710-2 (pbk.). Immigration and American Unions historicizes the current decline...

Personnel et DRH : l'affirmation de la fonction personnel dans les entreprises (France, 1830-1990).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Personnel et DRH : l'affirmation de la fonction personnel dans les entreprises (France, 1830-1990) par Jean FOMBONNE, Paris : Vuibert, 2001, 777 p., ISBN 2-7117-7697-2. Le livre de Jean Fombonne retrace l'histoire de la fonction personnel...

Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections edited by Catherine M. SLEEZER, Tim L. WENTLING and Roger L. CUDE, Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 277 pp., ISBN 0-7923-7594-7. When I first...

Working Time Changes: Social Integration through Transitional Labour Markets.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Working Time Changes: Social Integration Through Transitional Labour Markets sous la direction de Jacqueline O'REILLY, Immaculada CEBRIAN et Michel LALLEMENT, London : Edward Elgar, 2000, 345 p. ISBN 1-84064-280-7. Cet ouvrage regroupe un...

Recent publications.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Relations du travail Labour Relations >, Iain Campbell, International Journal of Employment Studies, vol. 10, no 2, 2002, 109-156. >, Paul D. Staudohar, Monthly Labor Review, vol. 125, no 12, 2002, 15-22. >, John F. Geary and...

Books received.
March 22, 2003... AGOCS, Carol (ed.), Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 283 p. ARGANDONA, Antonio and Jordi GUAL (eds), The Social Dimensions of Employment:...