Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from January 2000

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from January 2000

WORK REORGANIZATION IN AN ERA OF RESTRUCTURING: TRENDS IN DIFFUSION AND EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE WELFARE.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... PAUL OSTERMAN [*] High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) took root in the early 1990s but then faced an environment of organizational turmoil and restructuring. This paper, drawing on a second-round survey of employers that replicated...

THE IMPACT OF CO-MANAGEMENT ON QUALITY PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF THE SATURN CORPORATION.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... SAUL A. RUBINSTEIN [*] Using data from surveys, interviews, direct observation, and records of quality performance, the author examines the system of co-management created through the General Motors-United Auto Workers partnership at the...

SCHOOL-TO-WORK PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES: A MULTI-FIRM CASE STUDY OF TRAINING, BENEFITS, AND COSTS.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... JENS LUDWIG [*] This paper provides one of the first detailed analyses of the training and finances of school-to-work (STW) programs in the United States. The data are from case studies of seven STW programs sponsored by firms of diverse...

WHAT DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DO?(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... DAVID NEUMARK [*] The authors use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment outcomes. They find that...

THE EFFECTS OF LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS ON TWO PAY-SETTING SYSTEMS IN THE FEDERAL SECTOR.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... BARBARA L. RAU [*] The authors examine the sensitivity of wage setting in two federal pay systems-the General Schedule (CS) system, covering white-collar workers, and the Federal Wage System (FWS),covering blue-collar workers- to local...

COMPUTER USE AND THE DEMAND FOR FEMALE WORKERS.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... BRUCE A. WEINBERG [*] Using data from the March and October CPS, the author investigates the effect of computers on the demand for female workers. A model illustrates that computers, by changing skill requirements and the conditions of...

WORK TRANSITIONS INTO AND OUT OF INVOLUNTARY TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN A SEGMENTED MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... CATALINA AMUEDO-DORANTES [*] The dual character of the Spanish labor market, with permanent workers on the one hand and less favored peripheral workers on the other, became more pronounced following the deregulation of temporary...

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relations between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relations between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman; edited by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 356 pp. ISBN...

The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutional and Neoclassical Economists in America between the Wars.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutional and Neoclassical Economists in America between the Wars. By Yuval P. Vonay. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 290 pp. ISBN 0-691-03419-2, $39.50 (cloth). Nearly forty...

Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies. Edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, and Ronald L. Seeber. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 370 pp. ISBN 0-8014-446-4, $19.95...

Not Your Father's Labor Movement: Inside the AFL-CIO.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Not Your Father's Labor Movement: Inside the AFL-CIO. Edited by Jo-Ann Mort. New York: Verso, 1998. 237 pp. ISBN 1-85984-286-0, $20 (paper); 1-85984-889-3, $60 (cloth). The 1995 changeover in leadership of the AFL-CIO, as well as recent...

Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945. By David Palmer. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. xviii, 264 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2734-7, $39.95 (cloth). In this fascinating...

The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace. By Brian Towers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 294 pp. ISBN 0-19-829319-4, $19.95 (paper); 0-19-828946-4, $70.00 (cloth). Industrial democracy can be...

Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945. By William A. Darity, Jr., and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1998. 191 pp. ISBN 185898-658-3, $70.00 (cloth); 1-85898-665-6, $25.00...

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster. By Alan Derickson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 258 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3186-7, $22.95 (cloth). By 1900, coal miners in the principal coal mining regions of the United States...

A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. By Lawrence B. Glickman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvi, 220 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3357-6, $35.00 (cloth). Lawrence Glickman's study of American workers,...

Hard Labor: Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Hard Labor: Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era. Edited by Joel F. Handler and Lucie White. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 242 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0332-2, 59.95 (cloth); 0-7656-0333-0, $23.95 (paper). The stated purpose of Hard Laboris to...

Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time. By Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998. ISBN 0-8014-3390-8, $27.50 (cloth). This book is an...

Living with Defined Contribution Plans.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Living with Defined Contribution Plans. Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Sylvester Schieber. Philadelphia: Pension Research Council, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 283 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3439-1, $47.50 (cloth). The Pension Research...

Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing. By Wayne Vroman. Kalamazoo, Mich: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998. 160 pp. ISBN 0-88099-194-1, $24 (cloth); 0-88099-193-3, $14 (paper). During times of robust growth and low...

Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. Edited by Irene Brown. New York, N.Y: Russell Sage, 1999. 440 pp. ISBN 0-87154-147-5, $39.95 (cloth). There is limited research specifically focusing on the...

Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers. Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Peter Gottschalk. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998. 336 pp. ISBN 0-87154-360-5, $34.95 (cloth). This book examines whether the United...

Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U. S. Labor Market.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U. S. Labor Market. By Frederic L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 300 pp. ISBN 0-521-65152-2, $34.95. In...

Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central American Responses.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central American Responses. By Henry J. Frundt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 286 pp. text + 99 pp. appendices, notes, bibliographies, and indexes. ISBN...

A Short History of American Industrial Policies.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A Short History of American Industrial Policies. By William R. Nester. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 329 pp. ISBN 0-312-21102-3, $45.00 (cloth). The term "industrial policy" did not come into vogue until the 1970s but, as William R....