Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1992

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1992

The demise of the national union in Italy: lessons for comparative industrial relations theory.
January 1, 1992... Much of prevailing industrial relations theory rests on the premise that there exist different "national models" of industrial relations. Underlying this premise are three distinct but interrelated assumptions: that national borders are...

The difference between participation and power in Japanese factories.
January 1, 1992... MUCH has been written about Japan's Quality Control Circles (QCCs) and other systems of worker participation in product and process improvement. There has also been considerable discussion of Japan's ringi system of "bottom-up, consensus"...

The effect of mandatory retirement on earnings profiles in Japan.
January 1, 1992... In 1979, Edward lazear, in a widely cited paper, developed a model in which firms adopt mandatory retirement policies as part of long-term contracts. The primary prediction of this model is that earnings grow faster than productivity for those...

Women's participation in local union leadership: the Massachusetts experience.
January 1, 1992... Women continue to be seriously under-represented at the top levels of union leadership, despite an increase in the female proportion of unionized workers. Only three of the 35 members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council are women, and only three...

Occupational mobility of black women, 1958-1981: the impact of post-1964 antidiscrimination measures.
January 1, 1992... TITLE VII of the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act outlawed employment discrimination based on race, gender, and other defined attributes. In 1965, "affirmative action" was established upon the creation of the Office of Federal Contract-Compliance...

The effects of race on professional football players' compensation.
January 1, 1992... Economists and the public at large have become increasingly interested in the issue of discrimination in professional sports. The representation of minorities relative to whites is higher in professional sports than in the labor force as a...

The effects of IMPROSHARE on productivity.
January 1, 1992... In this paper I use data obtained from a detailed survey questionnaire to estimate the effects on productivity of IMPROSHARE. IMPROSHARE is a gain-sharing plan, that is, a group incentive plan in which employee compensation is linked via an...

The viability of employee-owned firms: evidence from France.
January 1, 1992... In recent years, economists have developed theories implying that employee-owned firms (EOFs), of which important examples are producer cooperatives (PCs), will all either fail as productive units in the long term or convert into another form...

The effect of two-tier collective bargaining agreements on shareholder equity.
January 1, 1992... During the early and mid-1980s there was a substantial increase in the number of two-tier wage provisions in collective bargaining agreements. Corporate managers, faced with deregulation, recession, increasing foreign competition, and greater...

Determinants of contract duration in collective labor agreements.
January 1, 1992... ALTHOUGH the multi-year labor contract is a familiar instrument used in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, very little research has considered the interesting question of what determines variation in the duration of labor...

Post-layoff earnings among semiconductor workers. (California)
January 1, 1992... The economic literature has offered various explanations for the frequently observed dramatic changes in wages of job changers, including the destruction of human capital, mismatching (or, conversely, improved matching) of individuals and jobs,...

Just the Working Life: Opposition and Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life.
January 1, 1992... This book poses an important question: why do workers accept the legitimacy of their own subordination? This question is important for Marxists because the historic inevitability of the worker's overthrow of the capitalist system seems...

The Quest for Productivity: A Case Study of Fawley After Flanders.
January 1, 1992... In 1960 the highly influential "Blue Book" productivity bargaining agreement was signed at Esso's Fawley refinery near Southampton. This deal, with the help of Allan Flanders's classic and important study of it, generated a new era of...

Unionization and Deunionization: Strategy, Tactics, and Outcomes.
January 1, 1992... In this significant book, John Lawler characterizes both unionization and its less understood antithesis, deunionization (active efforts to undermine established unions and reduce unior representation), as a consequence of the actions of...

Women, Minorities, and Unions in the Public Sector.
January 1, 1992... Norma M. Riccucci has written a book with the important premises (1) that unions in the public sector play an important role in the decision making processes that affect the employment of women and minorities and (2) that their role has not...

Has Labor Law Failed? An Examination of Congressional Oversight and Legislative Proposals: 1968-1990.
January 1, 1992... In 1984, during the Reagan presidency, the House subcommittees on Labor-Management Relations and Manpower and Housing conducted joint hearings on the subject, "Has Labor Law Failed?" and concluded that it had--miserably--as indicated by the...

Can America Afford to Grow Old? Paying for Social Security.
January 1, 1992... The 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act were intended to restore social security to financial solvency, following a period of annual deficits in the late 1970s and early 1980s that would have exhausted the Old-Age, Survivors, and...

The Choice of Pension Plans in a Changing Regulatory Environment.
January 1, 1992... This study analyzes changes in the private pension system that have occurred since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Clark and McDermed seek to document and explain the growth of private defined contribution...

The Experience and Meaning of Work in Women's Lives.
January 1, 1992... The editors of this volume sought a deeper understanding of women's work lives than they found in tables showing increasing labor force participation and a (very slowly) decreasing disparity between women's and men's average wage. The studies...

The Earned Income Tax Credit: Antipoverty Effectiveness and Labor Market Effects.
January 1, 1992... Discussions of how the nation could better aid the working poor often turn to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC). Under current legislation, the EIC pays families 14 cents for each dollar of earnings between $0 and $6,800; a family with zero...

Working Parents: Transformation in Gender Roles and Public Policies.
January 1, 1992... Although many studies have reported on Swedish social policies adopted in support of working families, Moen's work is of special interest because she is seeking to learn the degree to which these policies have actually contributed to the sense...

Welfare Magnets: A New Case for a National Standard.
January 1, 1992... The Negative Income Tax (NIT) was once the darling of many welfare reform experts. Troubling evidence on its marital and labor supply effects, the failure of Nixon's and Carter's welfare reforms, concern about long-term welfare dependence, and...

Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Adequacy in the 1990s.
January 1, 1992... In the United States, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are provided under individual state program and are financed by payroll taxes. State program accumulate reserves during periods of normal labor market activity and use those reserves...

Future Work: Seven Critical Forces Reshaping Work and the Work Force in North America.
January 1, 1992... Future Work is a comprehensive examination and analysis of trends that the authors predict will affect the nature of the workplace in the year 2000 and beyond. The authors are to be commended for paying meticulous and creative attention to...

Labor Economics, 2d ed.
January 1, 1992... This enjoyable textbook (how's that for an oxymoron?) starts from the premise that "there is no one 'correct' approach to the study of labour markets" (p. 11). Thus, King presents and contrasts neoclassical, post-Keynesian, institutionalist,...

The Economic Consequences of Immigration.
January 1, 1992... In an age that is both eclectic and all too accustomed to the selective use of partial theories to justify political expediency, neoclassical economic theory has been regarded by "lay people" as falling somewhere between the quaint and...

Strategy and Human Resource Management.
January 1, 1992... This compact but well-written book explores the strategic and financial consequences of linking human resource management to enterprise outcomes, which is the aim of strategic human resource management (SHRM). Unlike most text, it includes...

Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in International Companies.
January 1, 1992... During the 1970s and 1980s, international agencies such as the International Labor Organization and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development gave serious attention to developing codes of conduct for multinational enterprise...

Industrial Training and Technological Innovation: A Comparative and Historical Study.
January 1, 1992... The comparative economic performance of nations is a pressing public policy concern in countriel like the United States and the United Kingdom, which ahve seen their competitive postitions decline in recenty years. At least some of the blame...

The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labor Market Policy in West Germany and the United States.
January 1, 1992... In the years since World War II, the governments of West Germany and the United States have both actively intervened in labor markets. But public policies toward job creation, worker training, and placement have different sharply in the two...

In Search of Inclusive Unionism.
January 1, 1992... In the context of declining trade unionism and the challegenes facing labor in western Europe during the 1990s, this book seeks to explore the possibility for inclusive unionism, that is, ways in which trade unions can successfully represent...

Women Workers and Global Restructuring.
January 1, 1992... Kathryn Ward's volume is an important contribution to literature on the effects of economic restructuring on women and to research employing the case study, grounded theory approach to analyses of gender relations and work-family linkages. Its...

Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.
January 1, 1992... This is a superb book. Lizabeth Cohen has attempted nothing less than a major reinterpretation of how industrial workers became deeply involved with the union organizing drives of the 1930s. Rather than focusing on external stimuli such as...

Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America.
January 1, 1992... Daniel Cornfield's history of the United Furniture Workers of America (UFWA) is refreshing. He uses this case study of the institutional and political life of the UFWA to question longstanding shibboleths about union bureaucratization and the...

More Profile than Courage: The New York City Transit Strike of 1966.
January 1, 1992... This book provides a detailed description of the 1966 strike by New York City bus and subway workers, the associated labor negotiations, and the history of the Transport Workers Union. Although the prologue provides an abstract model of how...

Working in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City.
January 1, 1992... Workers in the Metropolis challenges much of the antebellum labor history of recent years by arguing that if New York City's "working class was made in the 1830s... it was remade in the late 1840s and early 1850s" (p. 3). This new class was...