Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2000

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2000

Labour-Management Negotiation: Some Insights into Strategy and Language.(Australian research)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Management and union negotiators have the choice of adopting competitive or problem-solving strategies to find acceptable outcomes but they may also have to yield, a process which is less clearly understood. Competing, problem solving and...

Elements d'un regime post-fordiste de la negociation collective en France.
September 22, 2000... Jusqu'a une periode tres recente, les reticences des organisations syndicales et patronales francaises envers l'engagement contractuel ainsi que l'emprise des normes etatiques ont considerablement limite la place de la negociation collective...

Staying the Decline in Union Membership: Union Organizing in Ontario, 1985-1999.(analysis)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... In response to a sense of crisis precipitated by the 1995 election of the provincial Conservative government in Ontario and more anti-union employers, unions in Ontario have increased resources invested in and priority attached to organizing...

Analyse de l'impartition en gestion des ressources humaines: Determinants, activites visees et efficacite.
September 22, 2000... Afin de repondre aux pressions economiques, aux vagues de rationalisation et aux nouvelles formes d'organisation du travail, les entreprises considerent pouvoir ameliorer leur efficacite en impartissant certaines fonctions organisationnelles a...

Broadening the Scope of Diversity Management: Strategic Implications in the Case of the Netherlands.(analysis)
September 22, 2000... An analysis of theories and practices of diversity management, as illustrated in the case of the Netherlands, shows that they are too narrowly focused on redressing imbalances experienced by ethnic minorities and bridging cultural differences...

Nouvelles technologies et la telesubordination du salarie.
September 22, 2000... Les technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) permettent, incitent ou forcent les entreprises a modifier leurs processus de gestion et de controle. Par voie de consequence, la relation de travail et les conditions d'execution du...

E-gouvernance, gouvernementalite et Etat commutateur.
September 22, 2000... Les nouvelles technologies de l'information et des communications et la revolution commutative sont a la source d'un monde chaordique qui pose le grand defi de la e-gouvernance. Face a ce defi qui commande un passage de l'Etat-providence a...

Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California edited by Ruth MILKMAN, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2000, 260 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8617-3 (pbk.) and ISBN 0-8014-3697-4 (cloth). Six decades ago, the American and Canadian...

Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown by Robert BRUNO, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1999, 222 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3439-4 (cloth) and ISBN 0-8014-8600-9 (paper). Like me, Robert Bruno is a college professor who grew up in a steelworker...

Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown par Jack METZGAR, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000, 264 p., ISBN 1-56639-738-3 (alk. paper) et ISBN 1-56639-739-1 (pbk.: alk. paper). Ce beau livre est a la fois attachant,...

Evaluer et remunerer les competences.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Evaluer et remunerer les competences par Valerie MARBACH, Paris: Editions d'organisation, collection developpement et emploi, 1999, 193 p., ISBN 2-7081-2288-6. Ce petit ouvrage est un effort pour faire le point sur les difficultes...

Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace by Jackie KRASAS ROGERS, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000, 247 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3638-9 (cloth) and ISBN 0-8014-8662-9 (paper). What are we to make of recent changes in the American...

States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States.(Review)
September 22, 2000... States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States by Julia S. O'CONNOR, Ann SHOLA ORLOFF and Sheila SHAVER, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 281 pp., ISBN...

Handbook of Gender and Work.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Handbook of Gender and Work sous la direction de Gary N. POWELL, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. 1999. 651 p., ISBN 0-7619-1355-6. Ce livre se presente comme un volume de reference dans le domaine particulier de [much less than]...

La confiance: approches economiques et sociologiques.(Review)
September 22, 2000... La confiance: approches economiques et sociologiques sous la direction de Christian THUDEROZ, Vincent MANGEMATIN et Denis HARRISSON, Paris : Gaetan Morin Europe, 1999, 322 p., ISBN 2-910749-05-3. La notion de confiance fait l'objet d'une...

Negotiations: essai de sociologie du lien social.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Negotiations: essai de sociologie du lien social par Christian THUDEROZ, Paris Presses universitaires de France, 2000, 290 p., ISBN 2-13-050640-2. Rares sont les ouvrages en langue francaise qui s'attardent aux fondements, a la nature, aux...

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor by Tom JURAVICH and Kate BRONFENBRENNER, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1999, 245 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3633-8 (alk. paper). Midway through the twenty-month lockout of workers at...

Le travail sans qualites: les consequences humaines de la flexibilite.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Le travail sans qualites: les consequences humaines de la flexibilite par Richard SENNETT, traduit de l'americain par Pierre Emmanuel DAUZAT, Paris: Albin Michel, 2000, 223 p., ISBN 2-226-11501-3. Il s'agit de la traduction de l'ouvrage...

The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret by Michael ZWEIG, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2000, 198 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3637-0. TINA: "There is no alternative." Margaret Thatcher popularized the phrase 20 years ago, and conservatives...