Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1998

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1998

Can strategic participation be institutionalized? Union representation on American corporate boards.
July 1, 1998... The "New Industrial Relations" of the 1980s featured prominently a number of experiments in cooperation between American unions and managers, at levels ranging from the shop floor to strategic decision-making. Though structures for participation...

The effects of industrial relations factors on health and safety conflict.
July 1, 1998... The expansion of individual workers' rights under occupational health and safety legislation to refuse unsafe work and to make anonymous health and safety complaints has met with trepidation on the part of policy-makers. Early attempts to...

The effects of sexual harassment on job satisfaction, earnings, and turnover among female lawyers.
July 1, 1998... Sexual harassment may contribute to an undetermined extent to many aspects of women's employment experience, including absenteeism, turnover, productivity rates and work motivation, job dissatisfaction, and unemployment. - MacKinnon, Sexual...

The impact of federal civil rights policy on black economic progress: evidence from The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.
July 1, 1998... Affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policies have been and still are extremely controversial. In the economics literature, much of the controversy concerns the actual effectiveness of government legislation in improving the...

Employee involvement and organizational citizenship: implications for labor law reform and "lean production."
July 1, 1998... In this paper we explore the distinction, rooted in U.S. labor law, between employee involvement in issues of work organization and involvement in issues governing the terms and conditions of employment. We also examine the relationship between...

Recent immigrants: unexpected implications for crime and incarceration.
July 1, 1998... The labor economics literature on immigration has focused on changes in immigrants' earnings over time. Chiswick (1978), using cross-sectional data, found evidence that immigrants initially earn less than the native-born, but that within ten to...

Labor unions and the distribution of wages and employment in South Africa.
July 1, 1998... Labor unions are an important economic and political force in South Africa. According to surveys by the Bureau of Market Research, 2.5% of African workers in urban areas of South Africa were unionized in 1975, 5.5% by 1980, and 19% by 1985 (a few...

The Realities of Work.
July 1, 1998... By Mike Noon and Paul Blyton. London: Macmillan Business, 1997. viii, 235 pp. ISBN 0-333-63640-6, $45.00 (hardcover); 0-333-63641-4, $14.99 (paper). The Realities of Work offers a skillful survey of key debates in the sociology of work. Like...

Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition.
July 1, 1998... Edited by Dale Belman, Morley Gunderson, and Douglas Hyatt. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1997. In the Industrial Relations Research Association series. 350 pp. ISBN 0-913447-67, $24.95 (paper). Public...

Trade Unionism in Recession.
July 1, 1998... Edited by Duncan Gallie, Roger Penn, and Michael Rose. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. xv, 360 pp. ISBN 0-19-8279200-5, $80-00 (cloth). As the Thatcher experiment began in the early 1980s, with unemployment growing to record postwar...

We Can't Eat Prestige.
July 1, 1998... By John Hoerr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. 280 pp. ISBN 1-56639-535-6, $29.95 (cloth). In 1988 the fifteen-year campaign to organize office and laboratory workers at Harvard University ended with an NLRB election win. We Can't...

On-the-Job Training.
July 1, 1998... By John M. Barron, Mark C. Berger, and Dan A. Black. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1997. viii, 207 pp. ISBN 0-88099-178-X, $25.00 (cloth); 0-88099-175-5, $15.00 (paper). Since the publication in 1964 of Gary...

Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan.
July 1, 1998... By Ping-Chun Hsiung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 182 pp. ISBN 1-56639390-6, $44.95 (cloth); 1-56639-389-2, $18.95 (paper). This book explores the system of small factories that has typified Taiwan's export-oriented development...

Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums.
July 1, 1998... Edited by Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997. 525 pp. IBSN 0-8157-6110-4, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8157-6111-2, $22.95 (paper). Baseball enthusiasts remember the movie Field of Dreams, a delightful...

African Americans and Post-Industrial Labor Markets.
July 1, 1998... Edited by James B. Stewart. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1997. 399 pp. ISBN 1-56000-920-9, $24.95 (paper). African Americans and Post-Industrial Labor Markets is an excellent compilation of important research on discrimination in...

Forcing the Factory of the Future: Cybernation and Societal Institutions.
July 1, 1998... By Bryn Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 300 pp. ISBN 0-521-57206 1, $59.95 (cloth). Bryn Jones's Forcing the Factory of the Future is a richly researched and demanding analysis of how computerized production affects work...

Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics.
July 1, 1998... Edited by David N. Messick and Ann E. Tenbrunsel. New York: Russel Sage Foundation, 1996. 409 pp. ISBN 0-87154-594-2, $49.50 (cloth). This book, which, in the editors' words, "blends the empirical research tools of behavioral scientists with...

Work and Pay in the United States and Japan.
July 1, 1998... By Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 256 pp. ISBN 0-19511521-X, $35.00 (cloth). Clair Brown et al. have written an excellent and up-to-date comparative study of industrial...

Working Free: The Origins and Impact of New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act.
July 1, 1998... By Ellen J. Dannin. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1997. 335 pp. ISBN 1-86940-174-3, $39.95 (cloth). New Zealand is a small country but it has a big reputation. It has been described, for example, as a social laboratory. It...

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riff-Raff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor.
July 1, 1998... By Tom Zaniello. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1996. viii, 295 pp. ISBN 0-87546-353-3, $18.95 (paper). When President Woodrow Wilson finished viewing D. W. Griffith's brilliant but deeply racist film, Birth...