Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1996

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1996

Planning for change: determinants of innovation in U.S. national unions.
July 1, 1996... On December 30 1936, the UAW called a sit-down strike at Fisher Body One and Two in order to prevent General Motors from moving strategic dies out of the Flint, Michigan plants "so that the pressing and forming of auto parts might be shifted to...

A re-interpretation of pattern bargaining.
July 1, 1996... Four papers published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review between 1990 and 1992 re-opened the debate about the most meaningful definition of "pattern bargaining" over wages in union contracts as well as the question of whether it has...

Employment prospects and skill acquisition of apprenticeship-trained workers in Germany.
July 1, 1996... The German labor market is widely recognized for its low youth unemployment rate. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for Germany and the Panel Study for Income Dynamics for the United States indicate that five years after leaving...

Union wage determination in Canadian and U.S. manufacturing, 1964-1990: a comparative analysis.
July 1, 1996... Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Comparative economic research has traditionally emphasized the similarities between Canada and the United States. The similar economic,...

Is workers' compensation covering uninsured medical costs? Evidence from the "Monday effect."
July 1, 1996... Any targeted social program is vulnerable to abuse or even outright fraud in the determination of benefit eligibility. It is widely believed, for example, that a sizable fraction of Disability Insurance recipients are able to work - and are...

Employer size and labor turnover: the role of pensions.
July 1, 1996... Labor turnover is lower among large employers than among smaller employers. Plausible explanations for this fact include the presence of efficiency wages at large firms, workers' greater ability to change jobs without quitting at large employers,...

The gender wage gap: a comparison of Australia and Canada.
July 1, 1996... This paper provides a cross-country analysis of the gender wage gap in Australia and Canada. Because of certain key resemblances and differences between these two countries, their experiences can be viewed as a good "natural experiment" with...

The Economics of the Trade Union.
July 1, 1996... This valuable book provides a survey and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature by economists on labor unions, with emphasis on Britain and the United States. The principal audience for the book is likely to be graduate students...

Working for the Union. British Trade Union Officers.
July 1, 1996... A combination of multidisciplinary case studies based on fieldwork, observation, and interviews, and macro-surveys, based on closed questionnaires, has provided a wealth of information about almost every aspect of British workplace industrial...

Trade Unions in Britain Today.
July 1, 1996... Books on British trade unions, and even on British industrial relations in general, are becoming an endangered species. Publishers see little prospect of good sales as union membership, influence, and morale continue to decline; and even...

Pedal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers.
July 1, 1996... Pedal to the Metal provides an intriguing and informative peek into the way truck drivers work. The author, a former truck driver, provides a generally accurate picture of men who work long, hard hours for very modest pay in the truckload,...

The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront.
July 1, 1996... David Wellman's case study of Local 10 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the organization of San Francisco area longshoremen, is partly a sociological study of local union activity and partly a commentary on the...

The State and Labor in Modern America.
July 1, 1996... Underlying this thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between the power of the federal government and the power of organized labor in the United States is a premise that Dubofsky shares with other "institutional" scholars:...

Bound by our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage.
July 1, 1996... This book compares the history of the minimum wage movements in Great Britain and the United States. Hart's primary focus in this comparative analysis is the impact of a constitutional framework on the legal construction of policies and social...

Research in Canadian Workers' Compensation.
July 1, 1996... Workers' compensation is increasingly controversial in Canada. Each province and territory has a public monopoly system, run with varying degrees of independence from government. Despite increases in assessments, several large systems have...

Labor Economics.
July 1, 1996... This four-volume set contains an introductory essay by Orley Ashenfelter and Kevin Hallock followed by 80 articles from the field of labor economics. The set is designed to serve as a reference for researchers and graduate students. It pulls...

Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education.
July 1, 1996... In the past three years, public primary and secondary schools have each added about 1.3 million students. Over the next five years, primary and secondary school enrollments are projected to grow by 7.3%, so that by the turn of the century there...

Pension Incentives and Job Mobility.
July 1, 1996... Businesses struggle to design compensation systems that are relatively easy to administer and provide appropriate incentives for effort and mobility. A long-time attraction of defined-benefit pensions has been their reputed ability to discourage...

Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism.
July 1, 1996... Economic democracy is workers' self-government, in a system of private firms producing for the market. It is common to the kibbutzim of Israel, to Mondragon in Basque Spain, and to the deviant socialism of old Yugoslavia. Its roots run back...

Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry.
July 1, 1996... Does lean production empower workers and broaden their skills, or is it a modern extension of Taylorism that puts workers under greater stress and weakens unions? These questions, at the center of current debates about the changing nature of...

The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization.
July 1, 1996... The major premise of Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot's argument in this book is quite simple: bureaucracy no longer works. "Bureaucracy," they write, "is no more appropriate to the information age than serfdom was to the industrial era. Only...

Whistleblowing: Subversion or Corporate Citizenship?
July 1, 1996... The interest in whistleblowing and its implications for organizations as well as for whistleblowers has been heightened by the profusion of publicly reported incidents over the past decade. Whistleblowing: Subversion or Corporate Citizenship? is...

Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries.
July 1, 1996... "The unifying theme of this volume," write editors Stephen Frenkel and Jeffrey Harrod in their introduction, "is the impact of industrialization on labor relations, broadly defined" (p. 5). Within that broad theme, some of the contributors focus...

Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis.
July 1, 1996... John Turner and Noriyasu Watanabe have written numerous articles and books on pensions and employee benefits. In this collaborative effort, they synthesize a great deal of institutional and analytical material on a wide range of countries,...

The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class.
July 1, 1996... This extraordinary study of the formative period of the British working class will jolt many historians with its challenge to the central premises of E. P. Thompson's 1968 analysis, which profoundly influenced Anglo-American labor historiography....

Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs.
July 1, 1996... In recent years, third party and independent campaigns for the presidency have been synonymous with the politics of the center and the right (the campaigns of Ross Perot and George Wallace come to mind). The voice of the political left outside of...

The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations.
July 1, 1996... This book is a richly researched account of the myriad social issues surrounding a major southern textile strike. Using company records, the reports of labor spies, and 30 photographs, Gary Fink provides an understanding of this particular...

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965.
July 1, 1996... This collective biography traces the professional and private lives of Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman, four immigrant activists who worked to improve the lot of working-class women in the years from...

Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979.
July 1, 1996... In this book, Pamela Sugiman sets out to challenge simplistic theories about working women's consciousness and strategies through a historical case study of female auto workers in Ontario, Canada, from 1937 to 1979. To sociologists' surveys on...

Labor Arbitration: An Annotated Bibliography.
July 1, 1996... The purpose of Labor Arbitration: An Annotated Bibliography is to assist labor arbitrators and advocates in resolving problems that cannot be solved by consulting case law or general reference material. It is also aimed at those contemplating...