Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1989

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1989

Running the gauntlet: British trade unions under Thatcher, 1979-1988. (includes bibliography)
January 1, 1989... RUNNING THE GAUNTLET: BRITISH TRADE UNIONS UNDER THATCHER, 1979-1988 This article describes and appraises the difficulties experienced by British unions since 1979. During that period, union membership has declined over 20 percent and three...

Concession bargaining in the ocean-going maritime industry.
January 1, 1989... CONCESSION BARGAINING IN THE OCEAN-GOING MARITIME INDUSTRY The U.S.-flag maritime fleet has been in gradual decline throughtout the postwar period, but that decline accelerated in the 1980s, with employment levels being particularly hard-hit....

Public policies to help dual-earner families meet the demands of the work world. (includes bibliography)
January 1, 1989... PUBLIC POLICIES TO HELP DUAL-EARNER FAMILIES MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE WORK WORLD This paper focuses on the problems of families in which both spouses work, which have grown rapidly as a percentage of all families in recent decades. The...

Conflict at Work.
January 1, 1989... Labor-Management Relations Conflict at Work When I go to a Shakespeare play, I usually have three reactions: I congratulate myself on absorbing some "high culture," I have a difficult time following the script, and I find myself...

Saving Plants and Jobs: Union-Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing.
January 1, 1989... Savings Plants and Jobs: Union-Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing. Although much has been learned about the restructuring of American industry, little is known about how to avoid individual plant closures....

Before You Sue: How to Get Justice Without Going to Court.
January 1, 1989... Before You Sue: How to Get Justice Without Going to Court. In Before You Sue, Knebel and Clay make effective use of the self-help text formula to provide an introduction to the world of mediation. The book makes quick and easy reading, and...

Collective Bargaining in American Industry: Contemporary Perspectives and Future Directions.
January 1, 1989... INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW Collective Bargaining in American Industry: Contemporary Perspectives and Future Directions. Books in this genre -- updates of the state of union-employer relations in a selection of industries -- appear...

Arbitration 1986: Current and Expanding Roles.
January 1, 1989... Arbitration 1986: Current and Expanding Roles If it is hard to infer a theme from the title of this volume, it is harder still to discern one in the book's contents. The individual contributions are topically linked only by a common...

Crisis in the French Labour Movement: a Grassroots Perspective.
January 1, 1989... Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroots Perspective. It is no exaggeration to describe the French labor movement as being in crisis. The level of trade unionization in France is currently estimated at 15 percent of the work force,...

AIDS in the Workplace: Legal Questions and Practical Answers.
January 1, 1989... AIDS in the Workplace: Legal Questions and Practical Answers. Labor and Employment Law From a year's research of AIDS, I learned that if an employee job does not involve sexual contact or parenteral exposure to blood or bodily fluid...

The Economics of Comparable Worth.
January 1, 1989... Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions Comparable worth, or the policy to guarantee "equal pay for work of equal value," has moved from the stage of initial debate to actual implementation in a number of state and...

Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation.
January 1, 1989... Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation. As many as 250,000 U.S. workers annually suffer workplace injuries and diseases resulting in permanent disability, and benefits for these afflictions account for about 60 percent of all...

Issues in Pension Economics.
January 1, 1989... Issues in Pension Economics. This volume, which stems from a 1984 conference, is the third in a series of books on pensions issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The eleven papers included in it concern aspects of...

Working Time and Employment.
January 1, 1989... Working Time and Employment. This book examines the potential of legislated decreases in working hours as a method to increase the number of jobs available in an industrialized economy. Although direct reductions in working hours have not...

Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy.
January 1, 1989... Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy. The editors divide this book into seven section. Part 1 is an overview of issues and trends; Part 2 discusses labor market theories that explain women's relatively low wages, with particular...

Absenteeism in the Workplace.
January 1, 1989... Human Resources Personnel, and Organizational Behavior Absenteeism in the Workplace. One feature that distinguishes this book from others on absenteeism is that it draws heavily from arbitration cases and legal cases. Largely because...

Achieving Results from Training.
January 1, 1989... Achieving results from Training In this book, Robert Brinkerhoff presents a six-stage model that provides a systemic, common-sense procedure for human resource practitioners to evaluate human resource development (HRD) programs-specifically,...

Facilitating Technological Change: the Human Resource Challenge.
January 1, 1989... Facilitating Technological Change: The Human Resource Challenge. The author of this book attempts to explain the effects of automation on jobs, skill training, personnel practices, managerial behavior, community prosperity, and the...

Job Analysis: a Handbook for the Human Resource Director.
January 1, 1989... Job Analysis: Handbook for the Human Resource Director. In this well-written book, Jai Ghorpade integrates materials from many fields, including work redesign, industrial engineering, and statistics, to present everything you ever wanted to...

Encyclopedia of Organizational Change Methods.
January 1, 1989... Encyclopedia of Organizational Change Methods. The goal of this book is to present a variety of strategies and techniques useful in the management of organizational change. The book is not concerned with theoretical issues. such as the...

Teamwork: Joint Labor-Management Programs in America.
January 1, 1989... Teamwork: Joint Labor-Management Programs in America. Teamwork is one of several volumes of articles and recent case studies of worker participation under joint labor-management sponsorship recently published by the Work in America Institute....

Participative Systems at Work: Creating Quality and Employment Security.
January 1, 1989... Participative Systems at Work: Creating Quality and Employment Security. This small book is essentially the proceedings of a conference sponsored by Participative Systems Inc., a consulting firm. The president of that firm is both the...

Migrants in Europe: the Role of Family, Labor and Politics.
January 1, 1989... International and Comparative Migrants in Europe: The Role of Family, Labor and Politics. Anthropologists have significantly improved our understanding of migration to Western Europe, not least of all by giving migrants a human face....

Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker.
January 1, 1989... INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker Historically, most industrial relations scholars in this country have been exceedingly provincial, rarely looking beyond the nation's borders. During...

Strikes: Industrial Conflict in Britain, U.S.A., and Australia.
January 1, 1989... Strikes: Industrial Conflict in Britain, U.S.A., and Australia. This book, offered as an introduction to the study of strikes, aims to set strikes in the broader context of industrial conflict. The introductory chapter, however, gives little...

American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry.
January 1, 1989... American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry. Until the 1970s, economic historians largely disregarded workers and the details of production management. In recent years some of them, at least, have succumbed to the opposite tendency:...

Union Security and the Charter.
January 1, 1989... Union Security and the Charter. There is at present a growing interest in comparative industrial relations and labor law, reflected by the growing number of books and articles on the subject. Among such publications, most of which are...

Towards a New Industrial Democracy: Workers' Participation in Industry.
January 1, 1989... Towards a New Industrial Democracy: Workers' Participation in Industry. This book, an extensively updated version of Poole's original 1975 volume on workers' participation, retains the structure and argument of the original. The...

The Automobile Industry and Its Workers.
January 1, 1989... The Automobile Industry and Its Workers. As automobile manufacturing has become increasingly a global industry, it is natural and fitting that studies are undertaken of its development and characteristics. The MIT report, The Future of the...

Visions of Emancipation: the Italian Workers' Movement Since 1945.
January 1, 1989... Historical Studies Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers Movement Since 1945. By Joanne Barkan. New York: Praeger, 1986. The title of this volume is somewhat misleading, and the subtitle, although it comes closer to describing...

Labor Leaders in America.
January 1, 1989... Labor Leaders in America. Edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xvi, 385 pp. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Labor Leaders in America reflects the editorial acumen of two of the most...

Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: the Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan.
January 1, 1989... Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 228 pp. $40.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Ronald Edsforth opens this book, a...

Effects of the tax treatment of fringe benefits on labor market segmentation.
January 1, 1989... EFFECTS OF THE TAX TREATMENT OF FRINGE BENEFITS ON LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION Current federal tax law requires that all workers having the same experience with a firm must receive essentially the same package of fringe benefits in order for...

The transferability of military-provided occupational training in the post-draft era.
January 1, 1989... THE TRANSFERABILITY OF MILITARY-PROVIDED OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN THE POST-DRAFT ERA Several studies have examined how military-provided training affects post-service employment experience, but this study is the first to investigate that...

Unionization and shareholder interests.
January 1, 1989... UNIONIZATION AND SHAREHOLDER INTERESTS Drawing on agency theory, this study examines union-nonunion differences in the allocation of both firm profits and business risk to employees and shareholders. Using a sample of more than 1,000 large...

The influence of attitudes and normative pressures on voting decisions in a union certification election.
January 1, 1989... THE INFLUENCE OF ATTITUDES AND NORMATIVE PRESSURES ON VOTING DECISIONS IN A UNION CERTIFICATION ELECTION This paper investigates how both attitudes and normative pressures influenced the voting decisions of public university clerical workers...

Separating the reporting effects from the injury rate effects of workers' compensation insurance: a hedonic simulation.
January 1, 1989... SEPARATING THE REPORTING EFFECTS FROM THE INJURY RATE EFFECTS OF WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURANCE: A HEDONIC SIMULATION This paper presents a numerical simulation, based on date from the early 1970s, to investigate the economic links between...