Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1990

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1990

The Anatomy of Mediation: What Makes It Work.
January 1, 1990... The Anatomy of Mediation: What Makes It Work By Sam Kagel and Kathy Kelly. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1989. Sam Kagel, a veteran labor mediator and arbitrator and one of the inventors of "medarb," and Kathy...

Social Workers and Labor Unions.
January 1, 1990... Social Workers and Labor Unions Edited by Howard Jacob Karger. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988. This collection of essays, authored mostly by the editor, covers both social workers' unions and social workers' relationship with the labor...

Understanding Industrial Relations in Modern Japan.
January 1, 1990... Understanding Industrial Relations in Modern Japan By Kazuo Koike. Translated by Mary Saso. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Had these empirical studies been readily available in the 1950s, present-day perceptions of Japan's system of...

Public Sector Bargaining in the 1980's.
January 1, 1990... Public Sector Bargaining in the 1980's Edited by Rene Saran and John Sheldrake. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1988. Public sector bargaining in the U.K. in the 1980s is the story of Thatcherite policies in a setting where the government can with...

Combating Child Labour.
January 1, 1990... Combating Child Labour Edited by Assefa Bequele and Jo Boyden. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1988. Unfortunately, the horrifying world of child labor, as vividly depicted by Charles Dickens and other nineteenth-century observers,...

Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: the Regional Issues.
January 1, 1990... Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: The Regional Issues. By Marie Howland. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1988. From virtually the beginning of research and analysis on plant closings and worker...

The Economics of Pension Insurance.
January 1, 1990... The Economics of Pension Insurance. By Richard A. Ippolito. Published for the Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Homewood, Ill.: Irwin, 1989. Pension reform legislation in the United States is usually...

Conceptual Foundations of Organization Theory.
January 1, 1990... Conceptual Foundations of Organization Theory By Edwin M. Hartman. Hagerstown, Md.: Ballinger, 1988. Hartman's purpose in this book is "to give organization theorists a clearer idea of what they are doing . . . and to help them avoid...

Job-Saving Strategies: Worker Buyouts and QWL.
January 1, 1990... Job-Saving Strategies: Worker Buyouts and QWL By Arthur Hochner, Cherlyn S. Granrose, Judith Goode, Elaine Simon, and Eileen Appelbaum. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1988. During the deep national...

Managing Professionals in Innovative Organizations: a Collection of Readings.
January 1, 1990... Managing Professionals in Innovative Organizations: A Collection of Readings Edited by Ralph Katz. Hagerstown, Md.: Ballinger, 1988. The articles in this collection, focusing on the management of scientists and engineers in knowledge-based...

Fair Pay: the Managerial Challenge of Comparable Job Worth and Job Evaluation.
January 1, 1990... Fair Pay: The Managerial Challenge of Comparable Job Worth and Job Evaluation By Thomas H. Patten, Jr. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988. The purpose of this book is to give corporate executives and managers an introduction to the issues...

Social Security Policies in Industrial Countries: a Comparative Analysis.
January 1, 1990... Social Security Policies in Industrial Countries: A Comparative Analysis. By Margaret Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. This book offers a comparative analysis of social security programs and policies in 28 (all but the...

Bridging the Gap: Four Newly Industrialising Countries and the Changing International Division of Labour.
January 1, 1990... Bridging the Gap: Four Newly Industrialising Countries and the Changing International Division of Labour. By Gijsbert van Liemt. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1988. This volume is one in a series of studies from a research project...

Collective Bargaining in Industrialised Market Economies: a Reappraisal.
January 1, 1990... Collective Bargaining in Industrialised Market Economies: A Reappraisal By John P. Windmuller et al. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1987. In 1973, the ILO published Collective Bargaining in Industrialised Market Economies, just...

America's Labor Leaders.
January 1, 1990... America's Labor Leaders By Philip L. Quaglieri. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1989. Philip Quaglieri, an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Massachusetts--Boston, has produced an interesting oral history of the...

Music Matters: the Performer and the American Federation of Musicians.
January 1, 1990... Music Matters: The Performer and the American Federation of Musicians By George Seltzer. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1989. The last serious monograph on the musicians union (by Robert D. Leiter) was published over 25 years...

Corporate Nonunion Complaint Procedures and Systems.
January 1, 1990... Corporate Nonunion Complaint Procedures and Systems By Douglas M. McCabe. New York: Praeger, 1988. The two stated purposes of this book are to provide an analysis of nonunion grievance procedures and to establish a springboard for future...

Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in the Public Sector.
January 1, 1990... Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in the Public Sector By David A. Dilts and William J. Walsh. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books (a division of Greenwood Press), 1988. This book is intended to fill a gap in the existing literature on...