Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1996

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1996

Information on strikes and union settlements: patterns of coverage in a "newspaper of record."
April 1, 1996... Public perceptions of labor's activities have historically had a powerful influence on the shaping of the industrial relations system, and in recent decades few if any institutions have played a larger part in the formation of public opinion than...

The gender composition and scholarly performance of economics departments: a test for employment discrimination.
April 1, 1996... Despite increasing opportunities for women in recent decades, many professions remain predominantly male. One setting that may be useful for studying women's entry into male-dominated occupations is the academic labor market. Unlike most labor...

Determinants of underemployment of young adults: a multi-country study.
April 1, 1996... Previous studies of underemployment - defined in this study as part-time employment, temporary contract employment, and conventional unemployment - have usually concentrated on only one form of underemployment, namely, unemployment, in one...

The effects of employer-provided health insurance on worker mobility.
April 1, 1996... A primary concern in regard to the labor market effects of the current U.S. employment-based health insurance system is the possibility of "job-lock." Because that term has only recently been introduced into the popular lexicon, and largely by...

Black/white wage convergence: the role of public sector wages and employment.
April 1, 1996... Black Americans have made substantial but sporadic improvements in their labor market position over the past three decades. The years prior to 1975 brought strong black/white convergence in earnings, wages, and most measures of occupational...

Gender integration of occupations in the federal civil service: extent and effects on male-female earnings.
April 1, 1996... Have recent declines in the gender segregation of occupations led to greater male-female earnings equality? Although many studies have suggested the need to desegregate occupations to narrow the gender earnings gap, few have tested the impact of...

Gender differences in departures from a large firm.
April 1, 1996... Several recent studies have focused on differences between men and women in job mobility. The main question they have addressed is whether women have a weaker attachment to their jobs and to the labor market than do men. Most of these studies...

The effects of job turnover on the training of men and women.
April 1, 1996... Studies of the determinants of job training generally find that men are more likely to receive training than women. This is especially true in the case of employer-provided training, the type of training for which workers are most highly...

Are "involuntary" part-time workers indeed involuntary?
April 1, 1996... Policy-makers have long concerned themselves with unemployment as an indicator of the availability of unutilized labor resources within the economy. Statistics are also collected on "involuntary part-time employment" as a possible indicator of...

Is gender pay discrimination on the wane? Evidence from panel data, 1968-1989.
April 1, 1996... The magnitude of the male-female earnings gap and changes in this differential over time have been the focus of much attention among researchers and policy-makers. Of the several studies that have examined the male-female earnings gap, however,...

"Who gets what" from minimum wage hikes: a re-estimation of Card and Krueger's distributional analysis in 'Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage.' (David Card; Alan B. Krueger)
April 1, 1996... I've studied the arguments and the evidence for and against a minimum wage increase. I believe that the weight of the evidence is that a modest increase does not cost jobs, and may even lure people into the job market. But the most important...

Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge.
April 1, 1996... This collection of essays, with a strong theoretical introduction by the editors, is based on a 1991 conference. For the most part, the editors avoid the usual pitfalls - incoherence, uneven strength - of this kind of collection, and the result...

Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership.
April 1, 1996... Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership explores workplace transformation, the attendant changes in the nature of women's work, and the growing importance of unions to America's working women. Building on classic works such as Wertheimer's We...

The survival of the Danish Model: A Historical Sociological Analysis of the Danish System of Collective Bargaining.
April 1, 1996... This study, the first book-length analysis of Danish industrial relations since Walter Galenson's 1952 The Danish System of Labor Relations: A Study in Industrial Peace, is an important contribution to the growing body of research on...

Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector.
April 1, 1996... This book begins with a focus on the differences between public sector and private sector labor relations in the United States from the early 1900s to the early 1990s. Following an opening chapter in which the author adumbrates what he regards as...

Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia.
April 1, 1996... For at least three reasons, Catching the Wave is an important addition to the international industrial relations literature. First, it broadens understanding of Australian work reform and industrial relations practice. Second, this book affirms...

The Future of the Trade Unions.
April 1, 1996... What has befallen the once high, and certainly mighty, British trade unions? Since 1979 total membership has plummeted from more than 13 million to under 8 million and density from 53% to 33%. Nor is there any sign of the decline slowing down -...

Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector.
April 1, 1996... When I heard that the 1994 research volume of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) was dedicated to industry case studies of collective bargaining, I was not at first entirely enthusiastic. Not only had much of this ground already...

Permanent Job Loss and the U.S. System of Financing Unemployment Insurance.
April 1, 1996... Over the past three decades or so, a voluminous literature has emerged studying the system of financing unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in the United States. The feature of the system that has attracted so much attention is its imperfectly...

American Standards of Living.
April 1, 1996... The standard of living is an elusive concept. In conventional neoclassical economics, the standard of living is often identified with "real income" - the household's budget adjusted for changes over time in purchasing power. Because of the...

Skill and Occupational Change.
April 1, 1996... In 1974, Harry Braverman proclaimed in Labor and Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press) the thesis that capitalism was degrading workers' skills and that workers were consequently becoming increasingly alienated and dissatisfied. The...

Labor Markets, Employment Policy, and Job Creation.
April 1, 1996... This volume contains eleven papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Milken Institute. They deal with major current issues of jobs and wages in the U.S. economy that challenge both scholars and policy-makers. The authors are all members...

North-South Trade, Employment, and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill-Driven World.
April 1, 1996... Manufactured trade between developed and developing countries has increased rapidly over the past two decades. At the same time, in Europe, unemployment, particularly among the young and unskilled, has risen. In the United States and the United...

Workers, Institutions and Economic Growth in Asia.
April 1, 1996... This volume consists of papers from an International Labour Institute Conference held in February 1992 in Djakarta, Indonesia. Seven papers follow a brief introduction by the editor. Three deal with conceptual and thematic issues, and four...

International Labour Standards and Economic Interdependence.
April 1, 1996... What can be done to raise the living standards of working people around the world? This collection of 29 essays focuses on an issue currently in the air: the setting of international labor standards. Although the writers come from every continent...

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.
April 1, 1996... This impressively researched book, which draws on union records, the archives of Fiat and Renault, and a wide array of other sources, is a gripping study of the political and trade union events, actors, and movements of a tragic era in Cordoba's...

A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889, vol. 3, 1934-51.(Brief Article)
April 1, 1996... This book completes a three-volume history of the British trade unions that Clegg commenced in the 1950s. The first volume, co-authored with A. F. Thompson and A. Fox, was published in 1964. This volume examines the recovery of the trade unions...

Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers.
April 1, 1996... In 1949, the CIO expelled eleven unions, charging them with communist domination. Only two of those eleven survived, and they were much diminished: the International Longshoremen's Union and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of...

In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture.
April 1, 1996... In multiple ways, Leon Fink embodies the best of the 1970s generation of "New" labor historians. Not only does this collection of his essays, all previously published and dating from 1982 through 1993, demonstrate what a superb master of the...

Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-1939.
April 1, 1996... The UAW's birth in 1934-39 was an epic event in American labor history and in the development of a mature system of industrial relations. That period saw a dramatic upsurge of militancy by industrial workers, framed by a new labor movement and a...

The CIO: 1935-1955.
April 1, 1996... Labor's upsurge in the 1930s remains for many even in our own time a source of inspiration and uplift. Those who are romantically inclined have long cherished the image of union militancy that attaches to that decade, a militancy that many have...

Participant Observer: An Autobiography.
April 1, 1996... Although I have spent no more than fifteen minutes in William Foote Whyte's company, to me - as to thousands who have read his work - "Bill Whyte" is a rare instance of someone who is eminently likable and approachable and, at the same time, an...