Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2002

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2002

Unions and pay equity bargaining in Canada.
September 22, 2002... Provincial government pay equity policies require the negotiation of pay equity in unionized workplaces. The methodology is complex and unions have to be knowledgeable and committed to rectifying discriminatory wages. According to the...

The relative earnings of visible minorities in Canada: new evidence from the 1996 Census.
September 22, 2002... This article presents new evidence on the relative earnings of visible minority immigrant and native-born paid workers in Canada using data from the 1996 Census. Our findings show that labour market disadvantages associated with visible...

La place des femmes dans les priorites de recherche en sante au travail au Quebec.
September 22, 2002... Nous avons analyse le rapport annuel produit en 1999 par l'Institut de recherche Robert-Sauve en sante et en securite du travail du Quebec et nous avons constate que, dans les professions et secteurs concernes par les etudes financees, le...

Public sector earnings comparability: alternative estimates for the U.S. Postal Service.
September 22, 2002... Using the postal service as ah example, this article highlights the critical role played by a series of "implicit" judgments when estimating the government earnings differential. Regression estimates demonstrate that alternative treatments of...

The organizing model and the management of change: a comparative study of unions in Australia and Britain.
September 22, 2002... Trade unions in nearly all developed countries are facing major difficulties in maintaining membership levels and political influence. The U.S. labour movement has been increasingly attracted to an organizing model of trade unionism and, in...

Un apercu des lois de retour au travail adoptees au Quebec entre 1964 et 2001.
September 22, 2002... A partir d'une liste exhaustive des lois speciales de retour au travail adoptees au Quebec entre 1964 et 2001 inelusivement, les auteurs en presentent, sous la forme d'un tableau detaille, certaines caracteristiques : un sommaire de leur...

The Brave New World of Work.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Ulrich BECK, Oxford: Polity Press, 2000, 202 pp., ISBN 0-7456-2398-0. Whereas industrial relations (IR) has long been associated with labour economics in the Anglo-Saxon countries, it has been much more closely linked to the discipline...

Sociologies du travail : quarante ans apres.
September 22, 2002... sous la direction d'Amelie POUCHET, Pans : Editions Elsevier, 2001, 384 p., ISBN 2-84299-275-X. Voila un tres bon livre : les problemes de l'evolution de la sociologie du travail y sont repertories et traites par ceux qui ont vecu ces...

Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... edited by Peter WATERMAN and Jane WILLS, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 300 pp., ISBN 0-631-22983-3. In the last decade, academic and political obsession with the "globalization of business" has served to obscure an important and related...

Korean Workers: the Culture and Politics of Class Formation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Hagen KOO, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001, 256 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3835-7. South Korean workers have indeed defied common expectations associated with East Asian labour quiescence. As Hagen Koo observes in this book, "the...

Unions and Legitimacy.
September 22, 2002... by Gary N. CHAISON and Barbara J. BIGELOW, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2002, 133 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3512-9. Drawing from the field of organizational sociology, Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow offer the concept of legitimacy as a tool for both...

Working Time in Comparative Perspective, volume 1. Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment.
September 22, 2002... sous la direction de Ging WONG et Garnett PICOT, Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 387 p., ISBN 0-88099-227-1. Cet ouvrage est constitue d'une selection de textes presentes a la conference [??] Changes...

Working Time in Comparative Perspective, volume II. Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work.
September 22, 2002... sous la direction de Susan HOUSEMAN et Alice NAKAMURA, Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 372 p., ISBN 0-88099-229-8. Cet ouvrage est le deuxieme tome issu d'une selection de textes presentes la...

Ethical Issues in Contemporary Human Resource Management.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... sous la direction de Diana WINSTANLEY et Jean WOODALL, 1999, 320 p., ISBN 0-3337-3965-5. Alors que le monde des affaires a ete recemment perturbe par de nombreux scandales et manquements a l'ethique en gestion, Ethical Issues in...

Recent publications.
September 22, 2002... * Theorie et methodologie en relations industrielles Theory and Methodology in Industrial Relations [??] The Study of Industrial Relations: A Changing Field [??], J.S. Sodhi and David H. Plowman, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations,...

Books received.
September 22, 2002... ARCINIEGA ARCE, Rosa Silvia, Modernizacion empersarial y corporativismo en el sector textil, Mexico : Plaza y Valdes, S.A. de C.V., 2002, 173 p. BERNATCHEZ, Jean-Claude, La convention collective. Savoir la negocier, l'interpreter,...