Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 1999

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 1999

Do unions make enterprises insolvent?
July 1, 1999... "The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit." Samuel Gompers (Great Business Quotations 1986, p. 52) Does unionization increase the likelihood that a firm or plant will go out of business or...

Southern organizing in the post-civil rights era: the case of S. Lichtenberg.
July 1, 1999... On April 15, 1988, led by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (ACTWU), workers voted for union representation at S. Lichtenberg, a leading drapery and curtain manufacturer located in rural Georgia. The Lichtenberg campaign ranks...

Work organization, technology, and performance in customer service and sales.
July 1, 1999... There is considerable support for the idea that "high involvement" or "high performance" work systems lead to better organizational performance in manufacturing.(1) The argument is that work organized under the logic of mass production to...

Changing consequences of job separation in the United States.
July 1, 1999... With current low unemployment rates and an expanding economy, the American work force could be expected to feel relatively secure in their jobs. However, the opposite appears to be true: the widely held belief is that job security has...

What is a promotion?
July 1, 1999... Little is known about the process by which higher-level jobs are filled from within an organization. While there are a number of theories regarding the internal dynamics of the firm, there is scant empirical evidence concerning the employment...

The gender earnings differential in the Russian transition economy.
July 1, 1999... The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy in Russia that started in the early 1990s has led to profound changes in the country's labor market. On the vestiges of the highly centralized and rigid Soviet system of employment and...

Disability retirement among German men in the 1980s.
July 1, 1999... During the 1980s several industrialized countries faced high and growing rates of disability retirement. In Germany, 58% of all new retirees used disability or handicapped retirement, which caused the average age at retirement to fall even...

Compulsory Arbitration: The Grand Experiment in Employment.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Richard A. Bales. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1997. 233 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3446-7, $29.95 (cloth). This book presents a comprehensive and, refreshingly, highly readable overview of the private...

Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Robert Max Jackson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 316 pp. ISBN 0-674-05511-X, $35.00 (cloth). Destined f or Equality documents the many areas in which women's economic opportunities and political rights have...

International Examination of Medical-Legal Aspects of Work Injuries.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Edited by Elizabeth H. Yates and John F. Burton, Jr. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998. xi, 341 pp. ISBN 0-8108-3354-9, $50.00 (cloth). This book includes 28 papers presented at the Second International Congress on Medical-Legal Aspects of Work...

After Lean Production: Evolving Practices in the World Auto Industry.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Edited by Thomas Kochan, Russell Lansbury, and John Paul MacDuffie. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1997. 359 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3382-7, $47.40 (cloth); 0-8014-8413-8, $19.95 (paper). Less than a decade after...

Warmth of the Welcome: The Social Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Jeffrey G. Reitz. Boulder, Col.: Westview, 1998. xiii, 298 pp. ISBN 0-8133-8346-3, $65.00 (cloth). Warmth of the Welcome is a comparative study of the economic success of immigrants across three English-speaking countries: the United...

The Left's Dirty Job: The Politics of Industrial Restructuring in France and Spain.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By W. Rand Smith. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. 294 pp. ISBN 0-8229-5658-6, $22.95 (paper); 0-8229-4053-1, $50.00 (cloth). Is there a specific approach to market adjustment, especially in the area of industrial...

Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Bruce Western. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xx, 230 pp. ISBN 0-691-0161-78, $45.00 (cloth). Although the focus of industrial relations research has expanded considerably, topics such as trade union growth and decline...

Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Edited by Kevin Boyle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 274 pp. ISBN 0-7914-3952-6, $23.95 (paper); 0-7914-3951-8, $71.50 (hardcover). Based on papers presented at a 1994 conference on labor and American politics held at...

When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Thomas Dublin, with photographs by George Harvan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.251 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8467-7, $16.95 (paper); available in cloth for $55.00. In recent years scholars from many disciplines have examined...

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Joseph A. McCartin. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 319 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2372-4, $49.95 (cloth); 0-9078-4679-1, $18.95 (paper). This is an important book that aims to reshape our understanding of labor...

The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928.(Review)
July 1, 1999... By Priscilla Murolo. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 227 pp. ISBN 0-252-02107-X, $29.95 (cloth); 0-252-06629-4, $14.95 (paper). Historians' recent focus on differences among women has downplayed the possibility...