Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 1999

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 1999

Shopfloor Matters: Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth-Century American Manufacturing.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David Fairris. Andover, Hampshire, U.K.: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks, 1997. 256 pp. ISBN 0-415-12123-X, [pounds]45.00 (cloth). In this aptly titled book, David Fairris analyzes the changing regimes of...

Arbitrating Race, Religion, and National Origin Discrimination Grievances.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Vern E. Hauck. Westport, Connecticut and London: Quorum, 1997. 208 pp. ISBN 156720-108-3, $59.95 (cloth). It is standard practice to include a non-discrimination clause in a collective bargaining agreement. Employers frequently cite...

Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Dean Baker. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., for the Economic Policy Institute, 1998. 190 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0221-0, $50.95 (cloth); 0-76560222-9, $19.95 (paper). Kin Hubbard noted that he hadn't "heard of anybody who wants to stop...

Studying Your Workforce: Applied Research Methods and Tools for the Training and Development Practitioner.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Alan Clardy. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. 140 pp. ISBN 0 8039 7321 7, $45.00 (cloth); 0 8039 7322 5, $21.95 (paper). This clearly written book provides an introduction to the research issues, methods, and tools that any Human...

The Challenges to Trade Unions in Europe: Innovation or Adaptation.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by Peter Leisink, Jim Van Leemput, and Jacques Vilrokx. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1996. xi, 296 pp. ISBN 1-85898-288-X, $71.95 (cloth). The contributions to this edited volume were originally presented in 1994 at a conference...

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2331-7, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-46406, $17.95 (paper). The case study developed in this book provides a window on the industrial health...

"Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking: 1930-90.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Roger Horowitz. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi, 373 pp. ISBN 0-252-02320-X, $44.95 (cloth), 0-252-06621-9, $17.95 (paper). By turning our attention to the history of the United Packinghouse Workers of...

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 345 pp. ISBN 0-691-01570-8, $35.00 (cloth). Sanford Jacoby's new book is a marvelous example of how unfolding events can undermine the conventions of historical...

Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor from the 1920s to the Present.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Daniel Nelson. Chicago: American Way Series, Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1997. 181 pp. ISBN 1-56663-179-2, $22.50 (cloth). Throughout American history, Daniel Nelson observes, workers have attempted to organize unions in order to gain a voice on...

The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Andrea Tone. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii, 264 pp. ISBN 0-80143028-3, $39.95 (cloth). The first decade of this century saw an unprecedented merger movement, the appearance of giant factories, the spread of labor...

Bargaining unit composition and the returns to education and tenure.
January 1, 1999... The nature of union objectives has been long debated in the literature. While Dunlop (1944) believed that unions maximized a well-defined objective function derived from economic considerations, Ross (1948) disagreed, suggesting that political...

Trade unions and training practices in British workplaces.
January 1, 1999... Many authors have emphasized the role that effective employee training can play in influencing worker productivity, wages, and individual career development. Among the subjects examined by the extensive research on training have been effects on...

Coercive bargaining: public sector restructuring under the Ontario social contract, 1993-1996.
January 1, 1999... Driven by fiscal imperatives, governments around the world are instituting policies designed to restructure public services (Beaumont 1995). Among the devices that have come into wide use are unpaid days, wage freezes, withholding increments,...

Computer-mediated communication as employee voice: a case study.
January 1, 1999... There have been many stories recently about organized labor s use of the Internet to promote both new organizing and strikes. For example, the success of Justice for Janitors, a campaign by the Service Employees International Union to organize...

Absenteeism and employee sharing: an empirical analysis based on French panel data, 1981-1991.
January 1, 1999... Worker absenteeism accounts for much lost work-time and therefore has important implications for both household income and firm productivity. Working days lost due to absence over the 1970s in the United Kingdom are estimated to have equaled or...

The emergence, persistence, and recent widening of the racial unemployment gap.
January 1, 1999... The persistent gap between the unemployment rates of whites and African-Americans stands in stark contrast to the narrowing racial gap in earnings during much of the postwar period. While earnings began to converge - most rapidly during the...

Trade liberalization and wage inequality in Mexico.
January 1, 1999... During the 1980s, Mexico experienced a dramatic increase in wage inequality. The wages of more-educated, more-experienced workers rose relative to those of less-educated, less-experienced workers. While such events are interesting in their own...

Choice of major: the changing (unchanging) gender gap.
January 1, 1999... Differences between men and women in field of study chosen at the undergraduate level may represent differences in the skills that these groups bring to the labor market and may partially explain observed differences in wages. Choice of major,...