Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2001

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2001

Hommage a Gerard Hebert (1921-2001).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Le professeur Gerard Hebert, decede le 16 aout dernier, a enseigne la negociation collective a l'Ecole de relations industrielles de l'Universite de Montreal de 1965 a 1992. Il a marque profondement l'enseignement et la recherche en relations...

Gerard Hebert: Exemplar of the state of the art.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... With the passing of Gerard Hebert on the 16th of August 2001, the Canadian Industrial Relations community has lost a remarkable scholar and a wonderful human being. I had the privilege of working closely with Gerard for almost a decade on the...

Connecting women with unions: Whar are the issues?
September 22, 2001... This paper investigates the role of "women's issues" in the decision to join unions by examining a successful organizing drive in a predominantly female workplace. The main focus of the discussion is the identification of women's issues where...

Educating labour's professionals.
September 22, 2001... This study examines the nature of education and training for full-time union staff and officials in Canada and explores some of the factors that affect such provision. It was designed to complement similar studies of other countries and to...

Quelques reflexions sur un modele social Europeen.
September 22, 2001... L'auteur livre quelques reflexions personnelles sur la specificite de la reponse europeenne a la question sociale telle qu'elle se pose aujourd'hui. Davantage qu'une emanation de la politique de l'Union europeenne, il voit dans le modele...

State regulation and the new taylorism: The case of Australian grocery warehousing.(research)
September 22, 2001... Studies of the diffusion of new workplace technologies and management practice often fail to account for differences in state labour regulation. This article examines the role of the state in seeking to regulate the introduction of an American...

Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948.
September 22, 2001... by Judy FUDGE and Eric TUCKER, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001, 398 pp., ISBN 0-19-541633-3. When I studied Canadian collective bargaining law more than a quarter century ago, I learned how the 1944 war time executive order of the...

Droit des relations de travail en Amerique du Nord.
September 22, 2001... par Kevin BANKS, Lance COMPA, Leoncio LARA et Sandra POLASKI, Washington: Commission de cooperation dans le domaine du travail, 2000, 263 p., ISBN 1-58454-011-7 (francais), 1-58454-009-5 (anglais), 1-58454-010-9 (espagnol), disponible sur...

The Quality of Work: A People-Centred Agenda. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... by Graham S. LOWE, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000,213 pp., ISBN 0-19-541479-9. With the fall in unemployment the attention is shifting from the quantity of jobs to the quality of jobs. Graham Lowe, Professor of Sociology at the...

Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... edited by Elizabeth SMYTH, Sandra ACKER, Paula BOURNE and Alison PRENTICE, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 334 pp., ISBN 0-8020-4319-4. Critical analyses of the professions have been few and far between. The early literature,...

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... by Melvyn DUBOFSKY, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000, 249 pp., ISBN 0-252-06868-8. This book takes us back to previous writings of Melvyn Dubofsky, who is one of the five major labour historians who pioneered new...

Learning from Saturn. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... by Saul A. RUBINSTEIN and Thomas A. KOCHAN, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2001, 156 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3873-X. This is a jewel of a book: most informative, insightful and, in several respects, even endearing. This review will attempt to highlight...

Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice, and Policy. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... edited by Bruce E. KAUFMAN and Daphne Gottlieb TARAS, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, 576 pp., ISBN 0-76560494-9. While good ad hoc employee representation in a workplace can occur independently of any formalized procedure, the health of...

CyberUnion: Empowering Labor through Computer Technology. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... by Arthur B. SHOSTAK, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, 288 pp., ISBN 0-7656-0463-9. [B]y about 2003 or earlier the matter should be clear: The American labor movement will either be employing computers with finesse, or it will have become...

Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... edited by Archon FUNG, Tessa HEBB, and Joel ROGERS, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2001, 273 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3901-9. This 273-page edited collection makes an important contribution to understanding the role of pension funds in the U.S. economy...

Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... edited by Chris ROWLEY and John BENSON, London: Frank Cass, 2000, 314 pp., ISBN 0-7146-5035-8 (cloth) and ISBN 0-7146-8089-3 (paper). This edited volume focuses on the impact of globalization and deregulation on workers and labour...