Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2005

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2005

Towards Citizenship at work? An introduction/ La citoyennete au travail? Une introduction.
September 22, 2005... Harry Arthurs (1967) expressed much of the optimism for labour's long march to full civil, political and social rights in modern industrial societies in his 1960s path-breaking article "Developing Industrial Citizenship: A Challenge for...

After industrial citizenship: market citizenship or citizenship at work?/Apres la citoyennete industrielle : citoyennete du marche ou citoyennete au travail?(case studies)
September 22, 2005... This article sketches the rise and fall of industrial citizenship in Canada, and presents two very different models of citizenship that might replace it. It begins by defining the concept of citizenship, and explaining how industrial...

Dignity at work for low wage, low skill service workers/ La dignite au travail chez les travailleurs peu qualifies et faiblement remuneres du secteur des services.
September 22, 2005... Using responses from a telephone survey of 589 low wage, low skill workers in US hospitals, the authors investigate the workplace features that influence workers' perceptions of dignity at work. Both work organization variables and union...

Droits de la personne, relations du travail et defis pour les syndicats contemporains/Human rights, labour relations and challenges for today's unions.
September 22, 2005... Les chartes des droits de la personne, les lois protegeant ces memes droits et la jurisprudence qu'elles engendrent provoquent des bouleversements dans les milieux de travail regis par le droit des rapports collectifs de travail et dans les...

Co-operative values, institutions and free riding in Australia: can it learn from Canada?/Les valeurs cooperatives, les institutions et le probleme du resquillage en Australie : peut-on apprendre du Canada?
September 22, 2005... While there is a strong logic favouring co-operation, it faces a central problem: the "free rider" or "cheat." Collectives find ways of promoting norms of solidarity and seek regulation to prevent free riding. Around two-fifths of Australian...

Work and citizenship in Mexico in the era of globalization/ Travail et citoyennete au Mexique a l'ere de la mondialisation.
September 22, 2005... This article analyzes the case of Mexico in order to provide an overview of citizenship at work in the context of a dependent regional economy in a global era. It examines the framework of rights (civil, political and social) linked to the...

La citoyennete et la reconnaissance du travail feminin: une convergence souhaitable et necessaire?/Citizenship and the recognition of women's work: a necessary and desirable convergence?
September 22, 2005... Cet article se veut une reflexion sur la mise en relation de l'equite salariale avec le concept de citoyennete. Ainsi, la perennite de l'equite salariale serait tributaire du partage des valeurs associees au travail feminin et de la...

Conflict between liberal economic ideology and citizenship at work/ L'opposition entre le liberalisme economique et la citoyennete au travail.
September 22, 2005... Citizenship in work is a continuous process of sustaining and fighting for just social rights. The argument here is that currently a major impediment to this democratic process at work is the practical and ideological imposition of economic...

Fighting for a Living Wage.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Fighting for a Living Wage, by Stephanie LUCE, Ithaca and London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2004, 288 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8947-4. More than one hundred cities and counties in the United States have passed living wage...

The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace, by Charles J. MORRIS, Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005, 328 pp., ISBN 0-8014-4317-2. In this volume, the author hurls a cannonball at the heart of...

Le travail non qualifie: permanences et paradoxes.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Le travail non qualifie : permanences et paradoxes, sous la direction de Dominique MEDA et Francis VENNAT, Paris: La Decouverte, Collection >, 2004, 426 p., ISBN 2-7071-4468-1. A l'heure ou les mutations de l'economie amenent une...

The Economics of Affirmative Action.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Economics of Affirmative Action, edited by Harry J. HOLZER and David NEUMARK, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, 688 pp., ISBN 1-84376-117-3. The book is an anthology of 29 papers published between 1976 and 2000 that focuses on...

L'aveuglement organisationnel ou comment lutter contre les malentendus.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... L'aveuglement organisationnel ou comment lutter contre les malentendus, par Valerie BOUSSARD, Delphine MERCIER et Pierre TRIPIER, Paris : CNRS Editions, 2004, 183 p., ISBN 2-271-06279-9. Ce livre est le produit d'un groupe de travail qui, a...

The Internet in the Workplace : How New Technology is Transforming Work.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Internet in the Workplace : How New Technology is Transforming Work, par Patricia WALLACE, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004, 301 p. ISBN 0-521-80931-2. Cet ouvrage entre dans une categorie qui commence a etre assez bien...

Recent publications/publications recentes.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... * Relations du travail Labour Relations Industrial Relations at European Sector Level: The Weak Link?, Paul Marginson, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26 (4), 2005, 511-540. Not Yet Dead at the Fed: Unions, Worker Bargaining,...

Books received/Livres recus.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... BARTLETT LAMBERT, Josiah, If the Workers Took a Notion. The Right to Strike and American Political Development, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005, 259 p. BERGERON, Jean-Guy et Renaud PAQUET (sous la direction de), La negociation...