Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1993

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1993

Recent Developments in the Theory of Involuntary Unemployment.
April 1, 1993... By Carl Davidson. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W. E. Upjohn Institute, 1990. vi, 171 pp. ISBN 0-88099-106-2. $22.95 cloth, $13.95 paper. Since the early 1960s, economists have devoted a lot of energy to modeling unemployment as consistent with both...

Racial differences in men's unemployment.
April 1, 1993... In 1990 the unemployment rate for black men was 11.8%, compared to only 4.8% for white men. A differential of that order has persisted between the two groups for over 35 years, despite the establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunity...

Justifying affirmative action: highway construction in Louisiana.
April 1, 1993... AFFIRMATIVE action programs have been controversial since their inception, and public policy regarding them is still unsettled. During the 1980s, many state and local governments established programs to encourage utilization of businesses owned...

Trade unionism, social justice, and religious discrimination in Northern Ireland.
April 1, 1993... Anglo-American writing on industrial relations in recent years has paid little attention to the quest for social justice as a driving force of trade unionism. Indeed, there almost appears to be a dismal consensus that, as Poole has put it,...

The development of members' attitudes toward their unions: Sweden and Canada.
April 1, 1993... INDUSTRIAL relations research on union attitudes -- that is, attitudes of workers toward unions -- has typically focused on the extent to which the union attitudes of unorganized workers or union members influence union-related behavior, such...

Are skill requirements rising? Evidence from production and clerical jobs.
April 1, 1993... "Skills" can refer, on the one hand, to the capacities and human capital that workers bring to jobs, or, on the other, to the specific demands that individual jobs require. Whether the demand for skills is changing is a vitally important...

Managerial quality, team success, and individual player performance in major league baseball.
April 1, 1993... In recent years, much labor economics research has focused on the link between employee motivation and work performance in an attempt to broaden our understanding of the employment relationship. For example, models of efficiency wages, implicit...

Do negotiated and arbitrated salaries differ under final-offer arbitration?
April 1, 1993... INTEREST arbitration is a collective bargaining procedure used to resolve labor disputes without resorting to strikes. Under this procedure, an independent third party imposes a binding settlement on the two negotiating parties. Arbitration...

Determinants of strike-related militancy: an analysis of a university faculty strike. (Philadelphia)
April 1, 1993... THE viability of the strike as a means to influence collective bargaining outcomes has always been dependent on the willingness of individual members to support the work stoppage. Member support has grown even more important in recent years...

Union membership and coverage files from the current population surveys: note.
April 1, 1993... IN this note we describe union membership and coverage files we have compiled from the Current Population Surveys (CPS) and report how readers can obtain copies of these data. Beginning in January 1983, the CPS, conducted by the Bureau of the...

Pay Determination and Industrial Prosperity.
April 1, 1993... By Alan A. Carruth and Andrew J. Oswald. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 216 pp. ISBN 0-19-828692-9. This book merits attention because it brings together micro-economic, institutional, and behavioral approaches to the issue of pay...

Labor Union Representatives: Allowed and Prohibited Practices.
April 1, 1993... In the preface to Labor Union Representatives, Walter Baer, a veteran of the collective bargaining wars, states that although his book "was designed primarily for supervisors, personnel managers and industrial relations personnel,... this...

Rethinking Labour-Management Relations: The Case for Arbitration.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1993... By Christopher J. Bruce and Jo Carby-Hall. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. ix, 206 pp. ISBN 0-415-02213-4. $49.95. Compulsory arbitration of all disputes instead of strikes or lockouts? The authors propose exactly that: a system...

Risky Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace.
April 1, 1993... By Elaine Draper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 315 pp. ISBN 0-521-37027-2. $49.50 cloth, $15.95 paper. Every week now readers of the morning newspaper are confronted with headlines proclaiming genetic discoveries that have...

Essays on the Economics of Discrimination.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1993... Edited by Emily Hoffman. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W. E. Upjohn Institute, 1991. 176 pp. ISBN 0-88099-112-7, $11.00 (paper). Essays on the Economics of Discrimination is a collection of seven papers originally presented as part of a lecture series...

America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities.
April 1, 1993... By Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, and Philip L. Harvey. New York: Basic Books, 1990. xvii, 268 pp. ISBN 0-465-00122-X. $22.95. Clearly, the welfare system is under siege. From the viewpoint of the Right, the welfare system is...

The Trucker's World: Risk, Safety, and Mobility.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1993... By J. Peter Rothe. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991. 233 pp. ISBN 1-56000-023-6, $34.95 (cloth); ISBN 1-56000-551-3, $19.95 (paper). The Trucker's World is a book that lives up to its title, for it provides a wealth of...

New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Katherine G. Abraham and Robert B. McKersie. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xiv, 299 pp. ISBN 0-262-01118-2. $35.00. The 11 essays in this book, written mainly by economists, were presented at a conference of the Industrial...

Economic Challenges in Higher Education.
April 1, 1993... By Charles T. Clotfelter, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Malcolm Getz, and John J. Siegfried. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. x, 422 pp. ISBN 0-226-11050-8. $39.95. This NBER volume binds together what are really three distinct...

Time for Retirement: Comparative Studies of Early Exit from the Labor Force.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Martin Kohli, Martin Rein, Ann-Marie Guillemard, and Herman Van Gunsteren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 398 pp. ISBN 0-521-40053-8. $59.50 cloth, $29.25 paper. Policy and economic research benefits from careful...

Issues in the Economics of Aging.
April 1, 1993... Edited by David A. Wise Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. viii, 394 pp. ISBN 0-226-90297-8. $52.00. Issues in the Economics of Aging consists of eleven papers plus an overview presented at a 1988 conference as part of the National...

Turbulence in the American Workplace.
April 1, 1993... By Peter B. Doeringer et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 272 pp. $27.95. In Turbulence in the American Workplace, Peter Doeringer and his eight co-authors examine major changes in workplaces and human resources in the United...

Conception of Fair Pay: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Research.
April 1, 1993... By Mirriam Dornstein. New York: Praeger, 1991. 221 pages. ISBN 0-275-93404-7. $49.95. This book is a comprehensive and thorough review of the theoretical and empirical literature on individual employees' perceptions of fair pay. In...

All Teams Are Not Created Equal: How Employee Empowerment Really Works.
April 1, 1993... By Lyman D. Ketchum and Eric Trist. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1992. 318 pp. ISBN 0-8039-4652-X. $29.95. During the 1970s a number of existing manufacturing plants in the United States, Europe, and Australia redesigned their...

Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies.
April 1, 1993... By Robin Cohen. London: Zed Books, 1991. xiii, 188 pp. ISBN 1 85649 012 2. $49.95 cloth, $17.50 paper. In Contested Domains, a collection of essays he has written over the past 20-25 years, Robin Cohen repudiates industrial relations as a...

New Trends in Employment Practice: An International Survey.
April 1, 1993... By Walter Galenson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991. 161 pp. ISBN 0-313-27629-3. $37.95. For over 40 years, starting with his monographs on Danish and Norwegian labor and the milestone Comparative Labor Movements, which he edited in...

The Informal Sector in the 1980s and 1990s.
April 1, 1993... By Harold Lubell. Washington, D.C.: OECD, 1991. 128 pp. ISBN 92-62-13475-1. $21.00. Harold Lubell's thoughtful and detailed examination of the informal sector's past and prospects is a valuable overview by a widely respected student of the...

The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1993... By Ezra F. Vogel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. 138 pp. ISBN 0-674-31525-1. $16.95. This slim and eminently readable volume presents the 1990 Edwin O. Reischauer lectures delivered by Ezra Vogel, the Henry Ford II...

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923.
April 1, 1993... By Eric Arnesen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii, 353 pp. IBSN 0-19-505380-X. $39.95. In Waterfront Workers of New Orleans, Eric Arnesen, a professor of history at Harvard University, examines the conditions of New Orleans...

Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland.
April 1, 1993... By Lawrence Goodwyn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxx, 466 pp. ISBN 0-19-506122-5. $27.95. The societywide mobilization in Poland under the aegis of Solidarity between August 1980 and December 13, 1981 was a unique event in the...

The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working Class.
April 1, 1993... By Roman Laba. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xxii, 247 pp. ISBN 0-691-0782-9. $24.95. The societywide mobilization in Poland under the aegis of Solidarity between August 1980 and December 13, 1981 was a unique event in the...

Hoffa.
April 1, 1993... By Arthur Sloane. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. 430 pp. ISBN 0-262-19309-4. $24.95. Arthur Sloane provides an objective and convincing account of the life and career of Jimmy Hoffa, a remarkable, contradictory character who was one of...

Strike!(Brief Article)
April 1, 1993... By Mary Heaton Vorse. Introduction by Dee Garrison. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xxi, 236 pp. ISBN 0-252-06217-5 (paper). $15.95. This book is a reprint of an early 1930s novel that takes as its subject the spring...

Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South.
April 1, 1993... Edited by Robert H. Zieger. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. iii, 289 pp. ISBN 0-87049-697-2. $29.95. Long seen as a pale imitation of northern working-class studies, southern labor history has finally begun to take...