Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1998

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1998

Union power, cost of job loss, and workers' efforts.
April 1, 1998... What makes employees work hard or not is one of those important questions that, for want of data, remain incompletely answered. The question is important if only because of the potential close connection between worker effort and labor...

Wage loss following displacement: the role of union coverage.
April 1, 1998... Probably the best-known fact about job displacement is the large and persistent wage loss experienced by displaced workers, especially those with high tenure levels (see, for example, Jacobson, Lalonde, and Sullivan 1993). While most early...

Markets for communist human capital: returns to education and experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
April 1, 1998... In former Communist countries, economic, political, and social institutions have changed markedly since 1989. Previously, as part of a social policy purported to deliver equity among workers, central planners set wages by industry and occupation,...

Spanish unions: institutional legacy and responsiveness to economic and industrial change.
April 1, 1998... !!! BEGIN AUTH ABST Using empirical data drawn from multiple sources, including interview material, the author examines Spanish trade unions' responses to the reorganization of Spain's economy and changes in the structure of industrial production...

Sex segregation in U.S. manufacturing.
April 1, 1998... This paper measures interplant sex segregation and explores the connection between segregation and the male/female wage gap. Early studies of cross-employer sex segregation (McNulty 1967; Buckley 1971; Blau 1977) found that women were typically...

The earnings of immigrant men in Canada: job tenure, cohort, and macroeconomic conditions.
April 1, 1998... The labor market experiences of immigrants have been the focus of considerable economic research in the United States and Canada. Since both countries continue to accept large numbers of immigrants each year, determining the extent to which...

Labor market assimilation of immigrant women.
April 1, 1998... A sizable body of literature has evolved in the past two decades that examines the integration of immigrants into the U.S. economy, and this literature has almost exclusively examined the experience of men. One of the most influential works to...

Inter- and intra-ethnic comparisons of the central city - suburban youth employment differential: evidence from the Oakland Metropolitan area.
April 1, 1998... During the postwar period, American central cities lost much of the low-skilled employment that provided initial job opportunities for new labor market entrants. With the mass construction of highways, the shifts from railroad transportation to...

Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics.
April 1, 1998... Why should economists be concerned with feminism? According to Julie Nelson, the answer is to do better research. In this book, she makes the case that economists' attraction to (or even obsession with) abstraction, formalism, and rationality may...

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century.
April 1, 1998... Farewell to the Factory is a case study of the experience of auto workers following a major retooling and downsizing at the General Motors assembly plant in Linden, New Jersey. The book makes several notable contributions to the literature on...

Can We Afford to Grow Older? A Perspective on the Economics of Aging.
April 1, 1998... Richard Disney has written an ambitious book. He attempts to give readers a comprehensive survey of the growing literature on the implications of population aging. The ambition of this enterprise is suggested by the large number and wide range of...

Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work.
April 1, 1998... In Making Ends Meet, sociologist Kathryn Edin and anthropologist Laura Lein set out to answer a few simple questions about the budgets of low-income single-mother families. The researchers wanted to know how much these mothers spent, and where...

Working in the Service Society.
April 1, 1998... The overwhelming majority of Americans (80%) currently work in the service sector. In fact, service industries have been the mainstay of employment since the first half of the century. Yet one would be hard-pressed to gain a true appreciation of...

Keys to Successful Immigration: Implications of the New Jersey Experience.
April 1, 1998... The main thrust of this book is that New Jersey's experience with immigration differs from that of the country as a whole, and its response to immigration has been more successful. These claims, explicitly stated by the editor in his foreword,...

Human Capital, Employment and Bargaining.
April 1, 1998... It is difficult to characterize the contents of this book succinctly. Although modestly edited, it is essentially a compendium of previously published papers written individually and jointly by Hart and Moutos (with each other and with others)....

Dual Labor Markets: A Macroeconomic Perspective.
April 1, 1998... Dual Labor Markets brings together into a tidy package the contributions of Gilles Saint-Paul to the theory of dual labor markets. His research agenda is to show that one may construct a more empirically relevant macro-economic model by viewing...

Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry: Competition, Power and Industrial Flexibility.
April 1, 1998... The papers in this collection, which are based on the proceedings of the conference "Global Competition in the Automobile Industry" held at the State University of New York in 1991, greatly enrich the post-Fordist debate on the contemporary...

Reworking Authority: Leading and Following in the Post-Modern Organization.
April 1, 1998... Reworking Authority is an interesting new book offering a novel perspective on the relationship between leaders and followers in the workplace. In the first part of the book, Hirschhorn suggests that major changes have taken place in...

Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job.
April 1, 1998... We have all seen it: a man or woman kneeling before a broken photocopier, trying to get the cantankerous machine to work. Preoccupied with our own work, and impatient to have the machine restored to problem-free operation, we seldom take note of...

Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents.
April 1, 1998... Since MIT's $5 million project on the car industry was completed in 1990, Krafcik's "lean production" - an Americanized version of Ohno's "Toyota Production System" (Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, 1988) - has been...

The Lost Perspective? Trade Unions Between Ideology and Social Action in the New Europe.
April 1, 1998... As the end of the millennium approaches, volumes of collected essays on the decline, crisis, or transformation of trade unionism proliferate. On the one hand, such volumes are welcome because they address critical questions. If the long postwar...

Power at Odds: The 1992 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike.
April 1, 1998... In July 1922, over 400,000 railroad shopmen, whose job it was to maintain locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars, began a strike against the nation's railway system. According to Colin Davis, this strike, which has been largely neglected...

The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement.
April 1, 1998... Testimonial literature has received due attention in recent years, as post-modernists have redirected our focus from expressions of empire and class privilege to what Gayatri Spivak terms the "othering discourse." Such other voices often shift...