Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1997

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1997

The role of union strategies in NLRB certification elections. (National Labor Relations Board)
January 1, 1997... The 1980s was a decade of crisis for the American labor movement marked by plant closings, the increasing use of permanent striker replacements, heightened international competition, and devastating organizing defeats. Yet in this period of...

Workers' compensation recipiency in union and nonunion workplaces.
January 1, 1997... Workers' compensation provides a form of no-fault insurance covering workplace injuries. Benefits are paid to workers injured on the job, regardless of fault, and employers receive partial protection from lawsuits or further liability. The U.S....

Learning from interest arbitration: the next round.
January 1, 1997... A fundamental issue that has interested researchers studying the bargaining process is the relationship between bilateral negotiated settlement outcomes and the dispute settlement procedure the parties agree to use if negotiations between them...

The influence of work history factors on arbitration outcomes.
January 1, 1997... Over the past decade, researchers interested in the process of arbitral decision making have made important gains by employing quantitative methodologies in their empirical studies. In interest arbitration, policy-capturing and content analysis...

A puzzling aspect of the effect of advance notice of unemployment.
January 1, 1997... Workers dismissed from their primary employment as a result of reductions in force often have difficulty finding a new job of the same status in the labor market. Prior research has shown that roughly two-thirds of all displaced workers suffer...

The labor market status of immigrants: effects of the unemployment rate at arrival and duration of residence.
January 1, 1997... The literature on immigrant adjustment has focused primarily on earnings, with very little attention given to the issue of labor market status.(1) Yet one of the major policy concerns of immigrant receiving countries is the employment and...

Gender differences in days lost from work due to illness.
January 1, 1997... In 1987, U.S. workers missed 385 million days' work due to illness, accounting for 1.9% of their scheduled work time (1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey). Some firms are so concerned about absenteeism that they have hired private...

Is lunch and other break time productive in Sweden? A hedonic earnings approach.
January 1, 1997... Lunch and other paid break time at work is productive if it prevents the deterioration of productivity during the remaining time. If break time is optimal in terms of output maximization, the marginal minute of break time is as productive as the...

Erratum. (correction to Pension Incentives and Job Mobility, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, v. 49, p. 761, 1996)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 1997... The price given in the publishing information attached to the book review of Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier's Pension Incentives and Job Mobility on page 761 of the July 1996 issue (Vol. 49, No. 4) is incorrect. The correct information...

The Future of Employment Relations.
January 1, 1997... Collective bargaining coverage is the single most significant barometer of the sea change in British industrial relations in the past decade. The proportion of employees whose pay is determined by collective bargaining, regardless of whether they...

Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s.
January 1, 1997... Just as the AFL-CIO leadership is showing renewed vigor, this volume, a critical perspective from the left, questions the apparent rejuvenation of national union leaders. The analysis is based on classical sociological and socialist critiques...

The Politics of Bargaining: The Merger Process and British Trade Union Structural Development, 1892-1987.
January 1, 1997... In Great Britain, union mergers have become synonymous with the evolution of the labor movement and the reform of union structure. Many see mergers as the surest way to reduce the number of small unions, simplify union structure, and introduce...

Securing Employer-Based Pensions: An International Perspective.
January 1, 1997... The Pension Research Council has published a series of books over the past 25 years focusing on public policy issues surrounding retirement systems in the United States and around the world. While it is the Council's stated mission to strengthen...

America Unequal.
January 1, 1997... The motivating theme of this book is that in the past two decades or so, economic growth has slowed and income inequality has widened in the United States, and this combination of forces has increased the economic hardships of those at the bottom...

Seniority and Employment Equity for Women.
January 1, 1997... A central thesis of this book is that at present, all seniority systems - not only those that discriminate intentionally - are in effect discriminatory wherever women work with men. Dulude acknowledges that seniority rules arose in response to...

Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement.
January 1, 1997... In the current political debate over the future of Medicare, issues concerning the full range of health benefits for older Americans are often ignored. But Medicare is a limited program usually supplemented by other insurance, provided by former...

Entitlements and the Elderly: Protecting Promises, Recognizing Realities.
January 1, 1997... Entitlements for the elderly, which are dominated by social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, account for 30% of the federal budget. With the movement to balance the budget gaining strength, Congress and others have scrutinized the expenditures...

Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Its Workers.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... In the past decade there has been dramatic growth in the contingent work force of part-time, temporary, and contract or leased employees. Yet, despite this growth, there has been relatively little research devoted to the nature and extent of...

Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs.
January 1, 1997... The incautious extremes of recent welfare reform efforts encourage many of us to turn to history for the lessons to be learned from past successes and failures. Nancy Rose has provided a book that details the historical expansion and contraction...

Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp.
January 1, 1997... John Vanderkamp was a prominent Canadian economist who worked on a broad range of topics in labor economics. His research was invariably characterized by a theoretical model, rigorous empirical testing, and perceptive policy interpretation of the...

The Operation of Internal Labor Markets: Staffing Practices and Vacancy Chains.
January 1, 1997... The study of internal labor markets (ILMs) is perhaps the most important point of overlap between sociology and industrial relations. While the pioneering work on ILMs was done in industrial relations, sociologists have done most of the...

Comparable Worth: Is It a Worthy Policy?
January 1, 1997... While many economists agree that a significant portion of the persistent gender wage gap can be attributed to an undervaluation of women's work, considerable controversy still surrounds comparable worth (CW) as a means of reducing the gap. In...

Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production.
January 1, 1997... In a major setback for proponents of "human-centered" work organization, Volvo's innovative Uddevalla assembly plant, where teams of skilled workers assembled whole cars in a radical modern break with traditional assembly-line production, closed...

Industrial Relations Under Liberal Democracy.
January 1, 1997... This thoughtful and provocative analysis of industrial relations systems in liberal democracies compares the North American system in the United States and Canada with the systems in Western Europe and Japan. It is, at the same time, a search for...

"Without Blare of Trumpets": Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57.
January 1, 1997... As the late twentieth century collapse of the American trade movement proceeds apace, historians research explanations for the limited success of unionism and independent labor politics in this country. Some scholars look again within the...

The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor.
January 1, 1997... To some of the automobile manufacturers he negotiated with, he was "the most dangerous man in Detroit" and constituted a threat to the very foundations of American capitalism. To his political opponents within the United Auto Workers (UAW), he...

American Labor in the Era of World War II.
January 1, 1997... Institution building and state policy have loomed large in the labor history of the twentieth century, and never more so than during the Second World War. This collection of ten essays, most of which appeared as papers at the 1991 meeting of the...

Program Applicants as a Comparison Group in Evaluating Training Programs.
January 1, 1997... The four authors of this study attempt to refine a method to achieve unbiased estimates of the net impact of social programs, such as subsidized government employment and training programs. If their technique worked, it could be employed in all...