Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1990

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1990

Changing Technology and Work: Northern Telecom.
July 1, 1990... Changing Technology and Work: Northern Telecom A CAW Technology Project. North York, Ont.: CAW, 1989. For students of the transformation of industrial relations, this report by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) on the impact of new...

U.S. Labor Law and the Future of Labor-Management Cooperation.
July 1, 1990... [Dagger] U.S. Labor Law and the Future of Labor-Management Cooperation. U.S. Department of Labor. In 1986 the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs launched an ambitious, timely, and...

Conditions of Work Digest, vol. 8, no. 1, Part-Time Work.
July 1, 1990... Conditions of Work Digest, Vol. 8, No. 1: Part-Time Work. Introduction by Joseph E. Thurman and Gabriele Trah. Geneva: International Labor Office, 1989. The stated goal of this publication is to serve as "a reference source for all who are...

Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea?
July 1, 1990... Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea? By Duane E. Leigh. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1989. The author's stated purpose is to provide a description and evaluation of state...

The Invisible Work Force: Transforming American Business with Outside and Home-Based Workers.
July 1, 1990... The Invisible Work Force: Transforming American Business with Outside and Home-Based Workers. By Beverly Lozano. New York: The Free Press, 1989. In this study of home-based workers, who make up an integral part of the high-tech production...

The Business of Major League Baseball.
July 1, 1990... The Business of Major League Baseball By Gerald W. Scully. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Gerald Scully was one of the first economists to apply economic analysis to baseball as an industry, and his work has set standards of...

Time, Work, and Organization.
July 1, 1990... Time, Work, and Organization By Paul Blyton, John Hassard, Stephen Hill, and Ken Starkey. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. This is an interesting and ambitious book. The authors endeavor to use a "multi-disciplinary" approach to...

Human Resource Management: an Economic Approach.
July 1, 1990... Human Resource Management: An Economic Approach By Daniel J. B. Mitchell. Boston: PWS Kent, 1989. In recent years, more and more of the literature in labor economics has been concerned with the subject of "contracting." In an effort to go...

Developing Top Managers.
July 1, 1990... Developing Top Managers By Alan Mumford. Aldershot, England: Gower, 1988. In this book Alan Mumford attempts to sketch a management development model rooted in how managers actually behave rather than in the values of scholars and...

Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy.
July 1, 1990... Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy By Masahiko Aoki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. This study compares internal characteristics of Japanese and Western enterprise, focusing on information flows,...

Beneath the Miracle: Labor Subordination in the New Asian Industrialism.
July 1, 1990... Beneath the Miracle: Labor Subordination in the New Asian Industrialism By Frederic C. Deyo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Have workers in the newly industrializing countries (NIC's) of Asia benefited from the rapid...

Current Issues in Labour Relations: an International Perspective.
July 1, 1990... Current Issues in Labour Relations: An International Perspective Edited by Alan Gladstone et al. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989. This volume consists of 22 essays originally prepared for the 1986 Hamburg Congress of the...

Labor in Illinois: the Affluent Years, 1945-1980.
July 1, 1990... Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years, 1945-1980 By Milton Derber. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Labor in Illinois is one of those books that is useful to have on the shelf, although it is unlikely to be pulled down for...

Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: a History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199.
July 1, 1990... Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199 By Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg have written a clear, objective, and...

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order: 1930-1980.
July 1, 1990... The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 Edited by Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order is a splendid collection of ten essays documenting changes in...