Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from April 1999

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from April 1999

Are mandated health and safety committees substitutes for or supplements to labor unions?
April 1, 1999... Should the shop committee be a substitute for the union, and thus make the plant or concern the final unit of organization on the part of the men, or should it be a supplement to the union and perform certain functions while retaining the wider...

Expanding the behavioral foundations of labor economics.
April 1, 1999... Every discipline and field of study concerned with the employment relationship seeks to construct theoretical models to explain and predict human behavior. These models have two fundamental components: a psychological model that describes the...

Minimum wages and poverty.
April 1, 1999... Supporters of minimum wage laws generally argue that minimum wages improve the economic lot of low-wage workers. However, if increases in the minimum wage lead to reduced employment among this group, the effects on poverty and other aspects of...

On the evidence of a working spouse penalty in the managerial labor market.
April 1, 1999... One factor influencing a woman's labor supply decision is the perception that her labor force participation will not garner the same net rewards as that of a similarly skilled man. This perception is due in part to the persistent male-female...

Wage inequality and demand for skill: evidence from five decades.
April 1, 1999... The U.S. economy experienced an extraordinary rise in wage inequality in the 1980s. Wage differentials increased along a variety of dimensions - between college-educated and less educated workers, between young and experienced workers, and...

The determinants of hiring older workers: evidence from Hong Kong.
April 1, 1999... Newly hired older workers remain concentrated in a narrow set of industries and occupations, as many firms clearly employ older workers but do not hire them. Instead, these firms hire predominantly young workers and then retain them as they...

The returns to mobility and job search by gender.
April 1, 1999... Young workers are very mobile. Most of them change jobs several times during the first decade of work. This mobility seems to pay off, as wage growth is also high for young workers. Because mobility is typically associated with successful...

The Mondragon cooperatives in 1976 and 1998.
April 1, 1999... Editor's note: The Mondragon cooperatives are located in one of the Basque provinces in the north of Spain. Their growth and economic success, from the founding of the first small producers' cooperative in 1954, have been an astonishing...

Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion. Pittsburgh and Montreal: University of Pittsburgh Press and McGill-Queens University Press, 1997. x, 189 pp. ISBN 0-7735-1695-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-7735-1696-4, $22.95 (paper). It has long...

Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship (IRRA 50th Anniversary Volume). Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. vii, 557 pp. ISBN 0-913447-70-6, $29.95 (paper). This...

Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries, 1945-1995. Edited by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Sheldon Danziger. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 430 pp. ISBN 0-19-829075-6, $85.00 (cloth). Poverty affects children in both...

Stories of Achievements: Narrative Features of Organizational Performance.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Herve Corvellac. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, 1997. 220 pp. ISBN 1-56000-282-4, $29.95 (cloth). Performance, Herve Corvellac argues, is a centrally important concept that conditions how we perceive and understand our...

Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia's Four New Tigers: A Comparative Perspective.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Marvin J. Levine. New York and London: Plenum, 1997. 476 pp. ISBN 0-30645477-7, $69.50 (cloth). This book is a comparative examination of worker rights and labor standards in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and China. These four nations...

Equal Pay in Europe? Closing the Gender Wage Gap.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Jill Rubery, with Francesca Bettio, Marilyn Caroll, Colette Fagan, Damian Grimshaw, Friederike Maier, Sigrid Quack, and Paola Villa. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 276 pp. ISBN 0-312-21129-5, $69.95. This book, the product of a project on...

The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945. By Cindy Hahamovitch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 287 pp. ISBN 0-8078-4639-2, $17.95 (paperback); 0-8078-2330-9,...

The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Challenge of Interfacial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921. By Daniel Letwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii, 289 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2377-5, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4678-3, $19.95 (paper). Herbert...

From Direct Action of Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Paul D. Moreno. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. ix, 311 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2138-X, $35.00 (cloth). Although conflict over "affirmative action" has intensified over the past several decades, few scholars place this issue...

Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By Richard Schneirov. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. ISBN 0-252-02374-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06676-6, $21.95 (paper). Economists wrote the old labor history. In the fifty years after 1886, Richard T. Ely, John R....