Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1991

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1991

When Public Sector Workers Organize.
January 1, 1991... When Public Sector Workers Organize This carefully crafted volume advances our understanding of selected aspects of public sector labor relations, notably, the effects of public sector bargaining laws on unionism and terms of employment, and...

The System of Industrial Relations in New Zealand, 2d ed.
January 1, 1991... The System of Industrial Relations in New Zealand A. J. Geare covers a wide range of topics in this book, providing, for example, an introduction to the New Zealand system of industrial relations, the parties in the labor relations process,...

Strikers and Subsidies: The Influence of Government Transfer Programs on Strike Activity.
January 1, 1991... Strikers and Subsidies: The Influence of Government Transfer Programs on Strike Activity Strikers and Subsidies is a thoroughly researched, well-written, and highly infomative work, particularly in its examination of the various ways in...

Social Security and the Budget: Proceedings of the First Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
January 1, 1991... Social Security and the Budget: Proceedings of the First Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance During the first four decades of social security, the crucial decisions shaping it were dominated by a small cadre of government...

Opening and Closing the Doors: Evaluating Immigration Reform and Control.
January 1, 1991... Opening and closisng the Doors: Evaluating Immigration Reform and Control The stated objective of this book is to evaluate the impact of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). That legislation, which may provide amnesty to...

Comparable Worth: Analyses and Evidence.
January 1, 1991... Comparable Worth: Analyses and Evidence This book contains papers and discussants' comments from a colloquium held at Rutgers University in October 1987. Following introductory comments by the editors, four chapters present economic models...

Unemployment, Vacancies and Local Labor Markets.
January 1, 1991... Unemployment, Vacancies and Local Labor Markets In this short monograph Harry Holzer takes on a popular challenge: to diminish frictional and structural unemployment from the demand-deficient variety. In an exhaustive manner, he actually...

Handbook of Labor Economics, vols. 1-2.
January 1, 1991... Handbook of Labor Economics This two-volume set is another work in the North Holland series, and is clearly maintains the publisher's reputation for quality. The editors, Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard, have gathered an impressive...

Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics.
January 1, 1991... Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics This volume contains 16 essays by Richard Freeman, all previously published between 1971 and 1988, together with some very brief new introductory material. The essays range over a wide...

From One Job to the Next: Worker Adjustment in a Changing Labor Market.
January 1, 1991... From One Job to the Next: Worker Adjustment in a Changing Labor Market Adjustment from lower to higher productivity activities has become an important condition for economic success for economies, enterprises, and individuals. Historically,...

Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation.
January 1, 1991... Frederick Taylor and the Public Adminstration Community: A Reevaluation May critics have seen in Frederick Taylor's writings a dehumanized view of workers and the workplace. But in recent years several scholars have cautioned against...

Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
January 1, 1991... Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Comparative industrial relations has traditionally focused on national institutional structures and regualtions. This literature has...

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966.
January 1, 1991... In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 Building on my own previous work, "Collective Bargaining in the New York City Transit System: A Case Study in the Politics of Unicipal Unionism, 1937-1950" (M.S. thesis,...