Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1991

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1991

Trade Unionism: Purposes and Forms.
April 1, 1991... Trade Unionism: Purposes and Forms. By Ross M. Martin. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989. xiii, 196 pp. Ross Martin undertakes to classify theories of trade union purpose and the "institutional forms of trade unionism on a transnational basis" (p....

Unions and Communities Under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor.
April 1, 1991... Unions and Communities Under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor. By Gordon L. Clark. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 309 pp. $44.50. The basic argument of this book is that labor-management relations...

Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining.
April 1, 1991... Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining. Edwards and Heery have provided an interesting and useful book that, unlike most books about industrial relations in the United Kingdom, uses detailed experience...

Fact Finding Under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiation Act of Ontario.
April 1, 1991... Fact Finding Under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiation Act of Ontario. Richard Jackson, himself an experienced fact finder under the Ontario teachers collective bargaining legislation, has endeavour in this slim volume (75...

Trade Unions and the Industrial Relations Climate in Spain.
April 1, 1991... Trade Unions and the Industrial Relations Climate in Spain. The Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School first sponsored the research and publication of a comprehensive study of labor relations in Spain in 1981. This book is a revised...

Reclaiming Our Future.
April 1, 1991... Reclaiming Our Future. In this book "Wimpy" has provided an encouraging, and sometimes inspiring, argument for those who believe we need a labor movement committed to a better society. The goals are world peace, a more equitable...

Grievance Arbitration: Issues on the Merits in Discipline, Discharge, and Contract Interpretation.
April 1, 1991... Grievance Arbitration: Issues on the Merits in Discipline, Discharge, and Contract Interpretation. Arnold Zack succinctly summarizes this book's purpose in his introduction: This volume is intended to explore some of the new problems and...

Unemployment Insurance: The Second Half-Century.
April 1, 1991... Unemployment Insurance: The Second Half-Century This extraordinary volume is one that all people interested in the unemployment insurance (UI) system will want to read. Although research on a wide variety of aspects of the UI system has...

Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries.
April 1, 1991... Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries This volume contains a multidisciplinary collection of essays with the purposes of (1) advancing the state of knowledge regarding gender-based wage differentials (with particular emphasis on the wage effects...

Justice, Gender and the Family.
April 1, 1991... Justice, Gender and the Family In this passionate book, Susan Moller Okin brings together three strands of contemporary thought: the development of theories of justice; the recognition that families are in trouble; and feminist analyses of...

The Contingent Economy: The Growth of the Temporary, Part-Time, and Subcontracted Workforce.
April 1, 1991... The Contingent Economy: The Growth of the Temporary, Part-Time, and Subcontracted Workforce During the 1980s, the number of workers attached either weakly or not at all to a particular employer grew between 50 and 100 percent faster than...

International Differences in the Labor Market Performance of Immigrants.
April 1, 1991... International Differences in the Labor Market Performance of Immigrants. In this very brief monograph (only about 90 pages of text, notes, and tables), George Borjas analyzes earnings in Australia, Canada, and the United States to test...

The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth.
April 1, 1991... The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth. Every several years, usually in response to the rhythm of the business cycle, concern is raised that the pace of technological change has quickened, and in one form or...

Rethinking Employment Policy.
April 1, 1991... Rethinking Employment Policy. The economic expansion of the 1980s reduced unemployment rates from postwar record highs of over 10% to about 5%--levels below what many labor economists believed were achievable without increasing inflation....

Joint Management and Employee Participation: Labor and Management at the Crossroads.
April 1, 1991... Joint Management and Employee Participation: Labor and Management at the Crossroads. In this book, Neal Herrick proposes what he calls "a set of principles aimed at improving flawed and incomplete" systems for employee involvement....

The Social Organization at Work.
April 1, 1991... The Social Organization of Work This textbook follows the current style, using pictures, graphs, study questions, recommended readings, and boxed quotations. With its wide range of materials, the book ambitiously includes chapters on (1)...

Permanently Failing Organizations.
April 1, 1991... Permanently Failing Organizations. The idea of permanently failing organizations catches the imagination. Economic theorists with apolitical models or models that minimize the political and social power of economic actors have long...

Managing Employee Absenteeism.
April 1, 1991... Managing Employee Absenteeism. The eatecedents and consequences of absenteeism have long interested organizational researches and practitioners. Nonetheless, books devoted exclosively to the subject have been rare. The publication in 1984...

Theories and Concepts in Comparative Industrial Relations.
April 1, 1991... Theories and Concepts in Comparative Industrial Relations. This book is a collection of 16 papers presented at the 1986 meetings of the International Industrial Relations Association at Hambrug, Germany, in a seminar arranged by the...

The State and the Labor Market.
April 1, 1991... The State and the Labor Market. This volume consists of 13 chapters based on studies originally prepared for the International Working Party on Labor Market Segmentation. The 19 individual contributions examine the impact of governmental...

Labor Relations in Europe: A History of Issues and Developments.
April 1, 1991... Labor Relations in Europe: A History of Issues and Developments Historical studies of European labor movements and labor relations are only infrequently genuinely comparative, and even more rarely integrative. Most so-called European labor...

Industrial Relations and the German Model.
April 1, 1991... Industrial Relations and the German Model This book emplys the case-study method of European industrial sociology to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the German statutory system of works councils (Betriebsrate) during the 1970s and...

A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967.
April 1, 1991... A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967 This book is essentially a study of the American labor movement's achievements in electoral politics from 1955 to 1967, and focuses on attempts by the AFL-CIO's...

Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960.
April 1, 1991... Working-Class Americanisms: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-60 In the hands of a less-skille dhistorian, the story of labor's efforts to organize the textile industry in Woonsocket, Rhode Island wuld be nomore than a...

Between the Hills and the Sea.
April 1, 1991... Between the Hills and the Sea Between the Hills and the Sea is an inaugural volume in the ILR Press's new "Literature of American Labor" series. The novel, first published in 1971, was written by the team of Bert and Katya Gilden using the...

Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries: 1850-1939.
April 1, 1991... Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries The eleven essays in this collection, focusing on the role of women and employer organizations in the textile industries in England, fill a void in a literature that has emphasized male...

Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical Conservative Unions on the Waterfront.
April 1, 1991... Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront In 1906 the German scholar Werner Sombart asked, "Why is there no socialism in the United States?" Apparently, his answer was not definitive, because many...

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.
April 1, 1991... Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 "Used to be, a confrontation and I'd want to cry. Now I can fight back. I'm not going to make any excuses for who I am or what I think" (p. 176). These spirited words of a...