Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1994

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1994

The survival of employee participation programs in unionized settings.
April 1, 1994... Programs purporting to increase employee participation in decision making are now common in the union sector. It is widely believed, however, that many or most of these programs fail within two or three years. The case study literature has...

Wage effects of the move toward free markets in East Germany.
April 1, 1994... As the countries of Eastern Europe move, often painfully, toward some form of capitalism or a mixed economy, what happens to the wage structure? Standard economic theory predicts that a relaxation of government controls on wages will result in...

The effect of multinational institutions on strike activity in Canada.
April 1, 1994... Few would deny that multinational corporations are of vast importance in today's global economy. Exactly how these corporations affect labor relations in an individual country, however, is not well understood. Moreover, how labor should respond...

The role of pensions in the labor market: a survey of the literature.
April 1, 1994... Because the pension promise involves an explicit and relatively well-documented set of statements regarding future contingent payment and employment, an examination of the design and operation of employer-sponsored group pension plans can yield...

Why did male pension coverage decline in the 1980s?
April 1, 1994... Between 1970 and 1989, private and public pension fund assets (excluding Social Security) grew from $241 billion to $2,786 billion (EBRI 1990). This rapid growth in pension assets is slowing, however, and may in fact be reversed in the near...

New estimates of the effect of marijuana and cocaine use on wages.
April 1, 1994... The adverse physical and psychological effects of illicit drug use have been well documented in the medical literature and widely publicized through an extensive public and private media campaign. Given the public's knowledge of the negative...

Employment probation as a sorting mechanism.
April 1, 1994... Most employment relationships in U.S. labor markets begin with an employment probation period. Workers on probation typically accumulate no seniority and do not enjoy, the rights associated with seniority. These rights may include certain...

Comment on David Neumark and William Wascher, "Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages: Panel Data on State Minimum Wage Laws." (Industrial Relations Law Review, vol. 45, p. 55)
April 1, 1994... In their article published in the "Minimum wage Research Symposium" in the October 1992 issue of this journal (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 45, Number 1, pp. 55-81), David Neumark and William Wascher claim to find empirical...

Employment effects of minimum and subminimum wages: reply to Card, Katz, and Krueger. (reply to article on p. 487 of this issue)
April 1, 1994... In the october 1992 issue of this journal (Neumark and Wascher 1992), we presented findings supporting the earlier consensus that minimum wages reduce employment for teenagers and young adults, with elasticities in the range -0.1 to -0.2. In...

Industrial Relations Systems, rev. ed.
April 1, 1994... Revised Edition. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993. 331 pp. ISBN 0-87584-411-1, $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-87584-334-4, $24.95 (paper). In 1958, when the original edition of this book appeared, it revolutionized the field of...

Labor at the Ballot Box: The Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Campaign of 1988.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... The Massachusettes Prevailing Wage Campaign of 1988. By Mark Erlich. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. 219 pp. Prevailing wage laws require contractors to pay the prevailing local wage on government-funded construction projects....

Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the American Labor Movement.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Peter Rachleff. Boston: South End Press, 1993. 135 pp. ISBN 0-89608-451-5, $30.00 (cloth); 0-89608-450-7, $12.00 (paper). This book is more than just an insider account of the details of the Hormel P-9 strike of 1985 in Austin,...

Labor and Political Economy in Israel.
April 1, 1994... By Michael Shalev. New York:. Oxford University Press, 1992. 400 pp. ISBN 0-19-828513-2, $69.00 (cloth). I predict that this book will become essential reading for researchers wishing to comprehend Israel's multifunctional and highly...

Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement.
April 1, 1994... By Arthur B. Shostak. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. 368 pp. ISBN 0-87546-169-7, $42.00 (cloth); 0-87546-170-0, $18.95 (paper). Arthur B. Shostak has studied, taught, and written on industrial relations subjects for nearly thirty years....

Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy.
April 1, 1994... By Beth Sims. Boston: South End Press, 1992.139 pp. ISBN 0-89608430-2, $30.00 (cloth); 0-89608-429-9, $9.00 (paper). This book is an attack on the AFL-CIO's aid, programs in developing countries, primarily after World War 11. It does not...

Trade Unions and the British Electorate.
April 1, 1994... By Paul Webb. Dartmouth, N.H.: Ashgate, 1992. 220 pp. ISBN 185521217 X. $58.95. Political scientists in several countries have made many useful, if somewhat limited, contributions to the multidisciplinary subject of industrial relations....

Pensions in a Changing Economy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... Edited by Richard V. Burkhauser and Dallas L. Salisbury. Washington, D.C.: National Academy on Aging and Employee Benefit Research Institute, 1993. 120 pp. ISBN 0-86643-078-4, $15.00. This book contains eight papers and four comments...

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s.
April 1, 1994... By Martha R. Burt. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1992. 336 pp. ISBN 0-87154-177-7, $29.95. During the better part of the 1980s, as the number of homeless people apparently increased dramatically in the United States, studies of...

Work/Family Conflicts: Private Lives - Public Responses.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Bradley K. Googins. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House, 1991. 308 pp. ISBN 0-86569-011-1. Bradley Googins places this analysis of work and family conflicts within the framework of family, government, and corporate responses and...

Negotiating Health Insurance in the Workplace: A Basic Guide.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Suzanne S. Taylor. Washington, D.C.: BNA Books, 1992. 335 pp. ISBN 0-97179-731-3. $48.00. In the current cost crisis, the challenge of maintaining quality care and cutting costs has brought unions and management onto the same side of...

Pension Policy for a Mobile Labor Force.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By John A. Turner. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1993. 215 pp. IBSN 0-88099-134-8, $25.00 (cloth); 0-88099-133-X, $15.00 (paper). Many pensions fall sharply in value if a worker changes employers in mid-career. In fact, if the...

Higher Education and Economic Growth.
April 1, 1994... Edited by William E. Becker and Darrell R. Lewis. Boston: Kluwer, 1993. x, 182 pp. ISBN 0-7923-9235-3. The question at the heart of this collection of essays is whether the return from public investment in higher education exceeds the...

Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas.
April 1, 1994... Edited by George J. Borgas and Richard B. Freeman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 281 pp. ISBN 0-226-06633-9. This book is an excellent collection of eight econometric forays into three interrelated areas of immigration...

Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States.
April 1, 1994... By David Griffith. Albany: SUNYpress, 1993. xvii, 266 pages. ISBN 0-7914-1903-8, $44.50 (cloth); 0-7914-1310-1, $14.95 (paper). Years of study of low-wage labor in the American South and the Caribbean Basin provide a firm grounding for...

East German Productivity and the Transition to the Market Economy.
April 1, 1994... By: D.M.W. Hitchens, K. Wagner, and J.E. Birnie. Aldershot, U.K.: Avebury, 1993. xv, 136 pp. ISBN 1 85628 4433, $55.95. The standard-setting postwar "economic miracles" in Western Europe were founded on stable political democracy and the...

Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Katherine S. Newman. New York: Basic Books, 1993. xiii, 257 pp. ISBN 0-465-01593-X. $23.00 cloth. Much has been written about the sluggishness, since the early 1970s, of U.S. economic growth. Declining Fortunes examines the impact of...

Disability Management: A Complete System to Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity, Meet Employee Needs, and Ensure Legal Compliance.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Sheila H. Akabas, Lauren B. Gates, and Donald E. Galvin. New York: AMACOM (a division of the American Management Association), 1992. xv, 282 pp. ISBN 0-81445027-X. This excellent book can be helpful to the many stakeholders with an...

Training and Transfer of Learning.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Farhad Analoui. Brookfield, Vt.: Avebury, 1993. x, 167 pages. ISBN 1-85628-009-3. $59.95. This book presents a sociotechnical perspective on the transfer of learning from training to the work setting. The author argues that attempts to...

Labour Relations in a Changing Environment.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... Edited by Alan Gladstone, with Hoyt Wheeler, Jacques Rojot, Francois Eyraud, and Ruth Ben-Israel. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1992. xiv, 497 pp. ISBN 3 11 012604 4. The 31 essays that constitute the core of this book are based on...

Robotnik: A Short History of the Struggle for Worker Self-Management and Free Trade Unions in Poland, 1944-1981.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By David R. Stefancic. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs, 1992. vii, 109 pp. ISBN 0-88033-235-2. Most Western scholars of industrial relations were amazed when, in 1980, with the creation of Solidarity, an independent trade union was...

Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1994... By Sharon Hartman Strom. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. 427 pp. ISBN 0-252-01806-0, $42.50. Beyond the Typewriter begins by asking "whether the woman office clerk was taking advantage of new opportunities for the working...

Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era.
April 1, 1994... By Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xiii, 230 pp. ISBN 0-231-07698-3 $45.00. The academic discipline of labor economics was created in the United States after 1900 largely by John R. Commons and his...