Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 2000

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 2000

EXPLAINING VARIATION IN WORKPLACE RESTRUCTURING: THE ROLE OF LOCAL UNION CAPABILITIES.
July 1, 2000... ANN C. FROST [*] Using data collected from two matched pairs of integrated steel-making sites, the author describes variation that occurred in the process and outcomes of workplace restructuring. Four union capabilities--the ability to...

CENTRALIZED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND THE PROBLEM OF "COMPLIANCE": LESSONS FROM THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE.
July 1, 2000... LUCIO BACCARO [*] According to the neo-corporatist approach to the "problem of compliance," worker control over union policy is incompatible with centralized wage regulation, because only associations in which national leaders are...

CONTINUING EDUCATION, JOB TRAINING, AND THE GROWTH OF EARNINGS INEQUALITY.
July 1, 2000... Although it is well established that changes in the value of formal education can partly explain the increase in earnings inequality in the United States during the past three decades, less attention has been paid to the possible role of...

UNDERSTANDING YOUNG WOMEN'S MARRIAGE DECISIONS: THE ROLE OF LABOR AND MARRIAGE MARKET CONDITIONS.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... JANE WALDFOGEL [*] Using the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses, the authors investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). They first estimate the effects on marriage of...

HOURS OF WORK AND THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT: A STUDY OF RETAIL AND WHOLESALE TRADE, 1938-1950.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... DORA L. COSTA [*] When the Fair Labor Standards Act was first implemented, a 5% reduction in the length of the standard workweek reduced by at least 18% the proportion of men and women working more than 40 hours per week. This analysis,...

THE IMPACT OF REPRESENTATION AND OTHER FACTORS ON THE OUTCOMES OF EMPLOYEE-INITIATED WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS.
July 1, 2000... BORIS KRALJ [*] Using a unique data set from Ontario, the authors investigate the relationship between representation and the probability that a workers' compensation appeal initiated by a worker will be granted. Unlike similar previous...

WHEN CAN AN EMPLOYEE REFUSE UNSAFE WORK AND EXPECT TO BE PROTECTED FROM DISCIPLINE? EVIDENCE FROM CANADA.
July 1, 2000... SONDRA HARCOURT [*] This paper examines 272 Canadian arbitration and labor relations board decisions involving employees who, when they refused work on the grounds that the work was unsafe, were disciplined by their employers. The authors'...

On the Paradigm Guiding Industrial Relations Theory and Research.
July 1, 2000... Comment on John Godard and John T. Delaney, "Reflections on the High Performance' Paradigm's Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field" John Godard and John Delaney (2000) have done our field a service by raising the question of the...

What Workers Want.(Review)
July 1, 2000... What Workers Want. By Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. 226 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3883-8, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8563-0, $17.95 (paper). Sigmund Freud once remarked that...

Disparaged Success: Labor Politics in Postwar Japan.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Disparaged Success: Labor Politics in Postwar Japan. By Ikuo Kume. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 242 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3364-9, $42.50 (cloth). Many scholars are pessimistic about the prospects for labor unions as they become...

Managing Major Hazards: The Lessons of the Moura Mine Disaster.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Managing Major Hazards: The Lessons of the Moura Mine Disaster. By Andrew Hopkins. St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1999. ISBN 1 86448 940 5, $35.00 (paper). It is perhaps a sad commentary on our age that the study of...

Successes in Anti-Poverty.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Successes in Anti-Poverty. By Michael Lipton. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1998. 214 pp. ISBN 92-2-110848-1, $24.75 (paper). Michael Lipton has devoted a long career to studying and fighting poverty in the developing world. In this...

New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace. Edited by Terry Thomason, John F. Burton, Jr., and Douglas E. Hyatt. Ithaca, NY.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1998, for Industrial Relations Research Association. 338 pp....

Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring. Edited by John P. Tuman and John T. Morris. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. ix, 226 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0199-0, $64.95 (cloth); 0-7656-0200-8,...

The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work and Family in the United States and Japan.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work and Family in the United States and Japan. By Myra H. Strober and Agnes M. K. Chan. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. 276 pp. ISBN 0-262-19415-5, $35.00 (cloth). Myra Stober and Agnes Chan...

Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class. Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiii, 382 pp. ISBN 0-252-02407-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06710-X, $19.95...

Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown. By Robert Bruno. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. x, 224 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3439-4, $45.00 (cloth); 0-8014-8600-9, $16.95 (paper) Steelworker Alley, an...

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor. By Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. 245 pp. ISBN 0-3014-3633-8, $29.95 (cloth). Ravenswood...

Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By Marc W. Steinberg. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. 286 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3582-X,$45.00...