Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1993

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1993

Trouble on Board: The Plight of International Seafarers.
July 1, 1993... The Plight of International Seafarers. By Paul K. Chapman. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. i, 176 pp. ISBN 0-87546-180-8, $32.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-87546-181-6,$14.95 (paper). Thanks in large measure to the inexhaustible capacities of the...

We're Worth It! Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1993... By Cynthia B. Costello. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. 136 pp. ISBN 0-252-01803-6. $23.50. Cynthia Costello's book is a joy to read. Using four detailed case studies of union organizing among clerical workers in the...

Arbitration 1992: The Changing Face of Arbitration in Theory and Practice.
July 1, 1993... Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators. Edited by Gladys W. Gruenberg. Washington, D.C.: BNA Books, 1992. 299 pp. ISBN 0-87179-725-9. $40.00. The proceedings of the National Academy of...

Workplace Industrial Relations in Transition.
July 1, 1993... By Neil Millward, Mark Stevens, David Smart, and W. R. Hawes. Brookfield, Vt.: Dartmouth Publishing, Aldershot, 1992. 412 pp. ISBN 1-85521-321-4. $59.95. Students of British industrial relations are blessed with the Workplace Industrial...

Public Sector Industrial Relations.
July 1, 1993... By P. B. Beaumont. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xv, 217 pp. $79.95 (cloth), $27.50 (paper). Comprehensive volumes on public sector industrial relations by a single author are rare. More common is the publication of collections of...

Getting on Track: Social Democratic Strategies for Ontario.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Daniel Drache. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xvii, 237 pp. ISBN 0-7735-0895-3, $44.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-7735-0897-X, $19.95 (paper). On September 6, 1990, the New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Bob Rae, was...

Pensions and the Economy: Sources, Uses, and Limitations of Data.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Zvi Bodie and Alicia Munnell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xxx, 272 pp. ISBN 081223118. $39.95. Concerns about retirement security, worker mobility, and individual and national savings have fueled a rise...

Qualified Retirement and Other Employee Benefit Plans.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Michael J. Canan. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1991. xxxvii, 1223 pp. ISBN 0-314-83467-2. $58.00. Like its predecessors, the 1992 edition of Qualified Retirement and Other Employee Benefit Plans describes the legal...

Gendered Spaces.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1993... By Daphne Spain. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xviii, 294 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2012-1, $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-4357-1, $14.95 (paper). Gendered Spaces presents a comparative, historical analysis that explores the...

Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Martin A. Strosberg, Joshua M. Wiener, Robert Baker, and Alan Fein. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992. x, 238 pp. ISBN 0-8157-8197-0. America is currently facing what is widely perceived as a health care "crisis."...

The Uncertain Promise of Retiree Health Benefits: An Evaluation of Corporate Obligations.
July 1, 1993... By Mark J. Warshawsky. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1992. 190 pp. ISBN 0-8447-7011-6. $29.50. For those age 65 and over, retiree health benefits are provided primarily by Medicare. Many large public and private employers...

Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy.
July 1, 1993... By George J. Borjas. New York: Basic Books, 1990. x, 274 pp. ISBN 0-465-02567-6. $22.95. In a recent editorial ("Hispanic Groups Misrepresent Majority," Daily Gazette, Dec. 29, 1992), nationally syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer...

Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Firms.
July 1, 1993... By Barry T. Hirsch. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W. E. Upjohn Institute, 1991. 142 pp. ISBN 0-88099-110-0, $13 (paper); ISBN 0-88099-109-7, $23 (cloth). Barry Hirsch is to be commended for assembling a data set of firm-level unionization rates for a...

Inequality at Work: Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Force.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1993... By Gregory DeFreitas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 284 pp. ISBN 0-19-506421-6. $35.00. This interesting book synthesizes and summarizes the growing empirical literature on the economic status of persons of Hispanic...

Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws.
July 1, 1993... By Richard A. Epstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. 530 pp. ISBN 0-674-380808-5. $39.95 In this book Richard Epstein presents a philosophical, legal, and economic case against U.S. employment discrimination laws. Epstein...

The New Institutionalism in Organization Analysis.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 478 pp. ISBN 0-226-67708-7 (cloth); ISBN 0-226-67709-5 (paper). This superb collection of papers on institutional theory has three...

Leading the Team Organization: How to Create an Enduring Competitive Advantage.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1993... By Dean W. Tjosvold and Mary M. Tjosvold. New York: Lexington, 1991. xiii, 186 pp. ISBN 0-669-27972-2. $22.95. Here is another contemporary book on labor relations with a title that includes the word "teams." The "team" in this title,...

Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theory.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Roy Adams. London: Harper Collins Academic Press, 1991. xi, 145 pp. ISBN 0-04-445966-1. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. The goal of this collection of papers is to provide a wide-ranging review of the state of the art in comparative...

Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Lars Calmfors. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 448 pp. ISBN 91-7150-368-4. $105.00. This book on the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) examines both the importance of wage-setting behavior for...

The Art of Full Employment: Unemployment Policy in Open Economies.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Chris de Neubourg. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991. xii, 532 pp. ISBN 044-89216-8. $78.50. Originating in a recent conference held at the University of Limburg, this book consists of 23 economic studies, each seeking in some way...

Labor in a Global Economy.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Steven Hecker and Margaret Hallock. Eugene, Oreg.: Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, 1991. v, 305 pp. ISBN 0-87114-153-1. It is not often that the written medium captures the tenor and breadth of a...

Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Frank Pyke and Werner Sengenberger. Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies, 1992. x, 294 pp. $39.95. The 1980s saw a proliferation of research and writing about small firms, and especially about agglomerations of such...

Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions.
July 1, 1993... By Lowell Turner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xvi, 279 pp. $24.95. This book is a work in the growing field of new institutionalism in comparative political economy. In general, this approach claims that social and...

Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Ava Baron. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. 385 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2256-6, $36.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-8014-9543-1, $12.95 (paper). For anyone curious about where women's labor history is heading, this collection is clearly...

With Just Cause: Unionization of the American Journalist.
July 1, 1993... By Walter M. Brasch. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1991. 488 pp. ISBN 0-8191-8360-X, $47.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-8191-8361-X, $24.50 (paper). A. J. Liebling, the famous newspaper critic, accused publishers of making money by "buying...

Industrial Valley.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1993... By Ruth McKenney. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. 377 pp. ISBN 0-87546-183-2. $16.95. Divided into three books, Ruth McKenney's 1939 docunovel combines short narrative accounts with journalistic vignettes to tell the story of the Depression...

Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study.
July 1, 1993... A Case Study. By Jonathan W. McLeod. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies Publications, University of California, 1989. 135 pp. ISBN 0-934934-34-7. $15.95 (paper). Jonathan McLeod's short study of Atlanta's economy and work force...

The CIO's Left-Led Unions.
July 1, 1993... Edited by Steve Rosswurm. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992. 250 pp. ISBN 0-1835-1769-9, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-1835-1770-2, $17.00 (paper). In 1949 and 1950, the CIO, under the leadership of its conservative president,...

Daniel Willard and Progressive Management of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
July 1, 1993... By David M. Vrooman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xvi, 218 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0552-6. $40.00. David Vrooman seeks historical analogues to contemporary management issues. Reflecting on the ways in which leaders shape corporate...

The effect of creaming on placement rates under the Job Training Partnership Act.
July 1, 1993... In testimony before the Senate Labor Committee in 1989, then Secretary Elizabeth Dole described the JTPA (the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982) as "the most successful training program undertaken, with 68% of those who finish the training...

Are training subsidies for firms effective? The Michigan experience.
July 1, 1993... The issue of private sector training in the United States has grown in importance in the past few years. Traditionally, most such programs funded by government (such as the job training partnership act [JTPA] programs of the 1980s and the...

The effect of veterans benefits on education and earnings.
July 1, 1993... Beginning with the 1944 G.I. Bill, the federal government has subsidized education and training for veterans of the armed forces. The rationale for the original G.I. Bill was to speed the transition to peacetime production and to compensate...

Trends in market work behavior of women since 1940.
July 1, 1993... The purpose of this paper is to improve Tour understanding of the changes that have taken place since 1940 in the market work behavior of women. A great volume of research on female work patterns has been undertaken, but this work has dwelt...

The decision to work by married immigrant women.
July 1, 1993... Although numerous studies have analyzed the assimilation of immigrant men, the role of women has received less attention. Yet, the way the family as a whole copes with immigration is crucial, particularly given the low earnings of men in...

The effect of unionization on employment growth of Canadian companies.
July 1, 1993... The past decade or so has witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in and research on the impact of unions on various aspects of company performance, such as productivity and profitability. Surprisingly, however, relatively few empirical studies...

Strike incidence in British manufacturing in the 1980s.
July 1, 1993... To make known the facts connected with these labour struggles is not to increase the desire to engage in them, but may tend to diminish their number: uncertainty is provocative of strife. (George Howell, 1879) In the 1980s approximately...