Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from March 2006

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from March 2006

Union democracy and union renewal: the CAW Public Review Board.(Canadian Auto Workers )
March 22, 2006... Unions in the current environment are facing renewed pressures to demonstrate internal democracy and accountability. In this context, the Public Review Board (PRB) of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) deserves attention. The PRB is a unique...

L'impact du cadre legislatif sur le taux de syndicalisation des interimaires au Quebec et en France.(temporary employee industry in France and in Quebec and impact of industry on unionism efforts)
March 22, 2006... L'industrie du travail interimaire a connu une expansion remarquable au cours des dernieres decennies. Le present article a pour but de comparer la situation des travailleurs interimaires au Quebec et en France et d'expliquer les causes de leur...

International homogenization or the persistence of national practices? The remaking of industrial relations in Mozambique.(Survey)
March 22, 2006... This paper is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of industrial relations practices at firm level in Mozambique. Through a nationwide survey of firms, the paper assesses the extent to which specific sets of practices are...

Retablir la confiance dans l'entreprise par le recours a la mediation.(research on re-establishing confidence in workplace through mediation measures)
March 22, 2006... Cet article examine le role de la mediation comme outil d'action sur la confiance entre les representants de salaries et d' employeurs. La notion de confiance est apprehendee a travers les typologies de McAllister (1995) et de Lewicki et Bunker...

It's the taking part that counts? Participation, performance and external Labour market conditions.
March 22, 2006... This paper examines the relationship between participation, performance and the external labour market, using data from the 1998 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey. Our results show that participation can have positive productivity...

Une analyse longitudinale de la perennite des experiences des travailleuses et des travailleurs autonomes canadiens.(labor research on self-employed workers in Canada )
March 22, 2006... Les auteurs de cet article proposent une evaluation empirique de facteurs qui favoriseraient la longevite des experiences des travailleuses et des travailleurs autonomes canadiens et concourraient ainsi a l'explication de la forte croissance de...

Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, edited by Pradeep KUMAR and Christopher SCHENK, Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006, 336 pp., ISBN 1-55193-058-7. Unions in many countries face considerable uncertainty about their...

Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences.
March 22, 2006... Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, edited by Pradeep KUMAR and Christopher SCHENK, Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006, 336 pp., ISBN 1-55193-058-7. The editors of this prescient collection situate this book within the...

Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right, by Roy J. ADAMS, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005, 152 pp., ISBN 0-88627-469-9. In this book, Adams presents a compelling...

Workplace Justice without Unions.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Workplace Justice without Unions, by Hoyt N. WHEELER, Brian S. KLAAS, and Douglas M. MAHONY, Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004, xii + 229 pp., ISBN 0-88099-313-8. This valuable book explores at an...

Modernisation de l'etat et gestion des ressources humaines.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Modernisation de l'etat et gestion des ressources humaines, sous la direction de Louise LEMIRE, Denis PROULX et Luc COOREMANS, publie en coedition avec l'ecole nationale d'administration publique (Quebec) et la Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer...

L'entrevue structuree pour ameliorer la selection du personnel.(book by Normand Pettersen, Andre Durivage)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... L'entrevue structuree pour ameliorer la selection du personnel, par Normand PETTERSEN et Andre DURIVAGE, Sainte-Foy : Presses de l'Universite du Que'bec, 2006, 300 p., ISBN 2-7605-1393-9. Plusieurs annees de recherches scientifiques dans le...

Le travailleur forestier quebecois : transformations technologiques, socioeconomiques et organisationnelles.(book by Camille Legendre)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Le travailleur forestier quebecois : transformations technologiques, socioeconomiques et organisationnelles, par Camille LEGENDRE, Sainte-Foy : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005, 397 p., ISBN 2-7605-1268-1. L'organisation du systeme...

Recent publications/publications recentes.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2006... Relations du travail Labour Relations The Right to Strike in the European Social Charter, Erika Kovacs, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 26 (4), 2005, 445-476. More Holes in the Bucket : Twenty Years of European Integration and...

Books received/livres recus.(bibliography of books on industrial relations)(Bibliography)
March 22, 2006... CLAVETTE, Suzanne, L'affaire Silicose par deux fondateurs de Relations, Quebec : Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2006, 437 p. FENGE, Robert and Pierre PESTIEAU, Social Security and Early Retirement, Cambridge Mass. : The MIT Press, 2005,...