Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1989

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1989

How Labor Markets Work: Reflections on Theory and Practice.
April 1, 1989... How Labor Markets Work: Reflections on Theory and Practice. This volume contains papers presented at a 1986 conference. One purpose of the conference was to honor the work of four distinguished labor economists, John Dunlop, Clark Kerr,...

Impact of Service Industries on Underemployment in Metropolitan Economies.
April 1, 1989... Impact of Service Industries on Underemployment in Metropolitan Economies. This book joins the current debate concerning the quality of the jobs created by the U.S. economy in the past 10 to 15 years and focuses attention on the labor...

Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy.
April 1, 1989... Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy. Unlike most writings on industrial democracy in America, this volume is grounded in values and ideas that are hostile to the central theme. Dickman...

Union Strategy and Industrial Change.
April 1, 1989... Union Strategy and Industrial Change This volume contains eight chapters dealing with contemporary issues facing the Australian trade union movement, all of which were given as papers at a March 1986 conference. Except for Frenkel, the...

The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States.
April 1, 1989... The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States This book, which is based on the author's doctoral dissertation in political science at the University of Chicago, is an attempt to identify the causes of unionism's decline in the United...

The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation.
April 1, 1989... The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation. Those now seeking to expand the extent of employee representation in the United States can be roughly divided into two groups--New Agers and Diehards. The New Agers see us...

Doublebreasted Operations and Pre-Hire Agreements in Construction: the Facts and the Law.
April 1, 1989... Doublebreasted Operations and Pre-Hire Agreements in Construction: The Facts and The Law. This volume is a supplement to the Industrial Research Unit's Open Shop Construction Revisited, Northrup's 1984 revision, update, and expansion of the...

Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights.
April 1, 1989... Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights. In a lengthy introductory chapter to this collection of papers, the editor describes what he sees as an employee rights "revolution" in the workplace. These rights include the rights to...

Social Security After Fifty Years: Successes and Failures.
April 1, 1989... Social Security After Fifty Years: Successes and Failures This short book of essays is based on a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Social Security Act. The six formal essays--four of which are by historians, one by...

Social Security: the System That Works.
April 1, 1989... Social Security: The System That Works The foreword to this book presents the authors' thesis: "If people knew more about Social Security, they would be less anxious about its future; if they knew more about private retirement and state and...

An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System.
April 1, 1989... An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System This volume is the result of over two decades of research by the author on the unemployment insurance (UI) system. It focuses on the overpayment of UI benefits:...

The Problem Isn't Age: Work and Older Americans.
April 1, 1989... The Problem Isn't Age: Work and Older Americans The title of this volume nicely summarizes its 15 chapters. Two dozen contributors focus on potential problems facing the older worker: wage discrimination, the paucity of part-time employment...

The Implementation of Technological Change.
April 1, 1989... The Implementation of Technological Change The empirical research reported in this book examines how a number of human organizational factors affect implementation of computer-aided design systems (CAD) in manufacturing and resource companies...

Creative Human Resource Planning and Applications: a Strategic Approach.
April 1, 1989... Creative Human Resource Planning and Applications: A Strategic Approach This work is a specialized addition to the expanding body of literature on how to develop human resource management programs linked to organizational strategic planning....

Inside the Firm: the Inefficiencies of Hierarchy.
April 1, 1989... Inside the Firm This primarily theoretical study of the internal workings of the firm extends the author's well-known framework of "X-Efficiency" to the problems of personnel management. In this framework, firms do not necessarily maximize...

Incentives, Cooperation and Risk Sharing: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Employment Contracts.
April 1, 1989... Incentives, Cooperation and Risk Sharing: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Employment Contracts. A recent Industrial Relations Research Association volume paper that George Milkovich and I co-authored concluded that although various...

Working Together to Get Things Done: Managing for Organizational Productivity.
April 1, 1989... Working Together to Get Things Done: Managing for Organizational Productivity. Team work is a management "buzz" word of the 1980s, along with organizational culture and flexibility. This book is a blueprint for the use of teams as a basis...

The Swedish Economy.
April 1, 1989... The Swedish Economy. The purposes of this book are, first, to deliver "a fresh viewpoint of outsiders that will prove valuable in helping the Swedes to see their economic situation in new ways," and, second, to provide an analysis that "will...

Women and Information Technology.
April 1, 1989... Women and Information Technology. The editors of this book and a number of the contributors are British, and the book leans heavily on British experience. Several authors were selected, however, to deal with the literature in the field from...

And the Wolf Finally Came: the Decline of the American Steel Industry.
April 1, 1989... And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. Quite simply, this is an excellent book. The author, John P. Hoerr, grew up in the Monongahela Valley, which was once the heart of the American steel industry. He is a...

A New Deal for Workers' Education: the Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942.
April 1, 1989... A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942. The Workers' Service Program was an important chapter in the history of workers' education and of the New Deal. This book not only illuminates the program itself,...

American Automobile Workers: 1900-1933.
April 1, 1989... American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933. Joyce Peterson has written a marvelous social history of the automobile workers in the pre-union era. Peterson begins with a brief history of the industry and a history of the three waves of new...

John L. Lewis: Labor Leader.
April 1, 1989... John L. Lewis: Labor Leader Robert H. Zieger's life of John L. Lewis is a fine addition to the small corpus of modern scholarly biographies of American labor leaders. Zieger provides a clear, thought-provoking account of Lewis's career in...

The effects of flexible specialization on industrial politics and the labor market: the motion picture industry.
April 1, 1989... THE EFFECTS OF FLEXIBLE SPECIALIZATION ON INDUSTRIAL POLITICS AND THE LABOR MARKET: THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY IN THE advanced industrial economies, new forms of production organization are reshaping labor demands and, as a consequence,...

One hundred years of strike statistics: methodological and theoretical issues in quantitative strike research.
April 1, 1989... ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF STRIKE STATISTICS: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN QUANTITATIVE STRIKE RESEARCH The bulk of strike research has used quantitative methodologies, largely as a result of the ready availability of government data...

Who uses interest arbitration? The case of British Columbia's teachers, 1947-1981.
April 1, 1989... WHO USES INTEREST ARBITRATION? THE CASE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S TEACHERS, 1947-1981 With the rise of public sector unionism in the United States and Canada, binding arbitration by neutral third parties has become an important means of...

The impact of bargainer experience on teacher strikes. (Pennsylvania)
April 1, 1989... THE IMPACT OF BARGAINER EXPERIENCE ON TEACHER STRIKES THERE is widespread interest in the determinants of strike behavior over time and across industries in the United States. Although the estimated output loss due to strikes is small, the...

Determinants of grievance outcomes: a case study. (Canada)
April 1, 1989... DETERMINANTS OF GRIEVANCE OUTCOMES: A CASE STUDY Most empirical studies of the grievance process have concentrated on identifying the determinants of grievance filing activity and the factors associated with the early resolution of...

The unemployment rates of men and women: a transition probability analysis.
April 1, 1989... THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES OF MEN AND WOMEN: A TRANSITION PROBABILITY ANALYSIS The relationship between male and female unemployment rates has changed. As recently as 1978 the female rate was nearly two percentage points higher than the male...

The gender gap in earnings during World War II: new evidence.
April 1, 1989... THE GENDER GAP IN EARNINGS DURING WORLD WAR II: NEW EVIDENCE SCHOLARS do not entirely agree about whether women's position in the labor market, relative to men's, improved or worsened during the World War II. The majority concur with the...

The impact of unionism on municipal expenditures and revenues.
April 1, 1989... THE IMPACT OF UNIONISM ON MUNICIPAL EXPENDITURES AND REVENUES AMONG the characteristics that may be unique to public sector unionism in the United States (Freeman 1986), perhaps the most important is the ability of public employees to alter...

The effect of collective bargaining on salaries in higher education.
April 1, 1989... THE EFFECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ON SALARIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN A 1977 national survey of faculty members in higher education, 73.6 percent agreed with the statement: "Collective bargaining tends to substitute seniority for merit in...