Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from July 2001

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from July 2001

DO "HIGH-PERFORMANCE" WORK PRACTICES IMPROVE ESTABLISHMENT-LEVEL OUTCOMES?
July 1, 2001... DAVID NEUMARK [*] Studies of how different work practices affect organizational performance have suffered from methodological problems. Especially intractable has been the difficulty of establishing whether observed links are causal or...

HIGH PERFORMANCE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK? THE IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE WORK PRACTICES FOR THE EXPERIENCE AND OUTCOMES OF WORK.
July 1, 2001... JOHN GODARD [*] Using data from a 1997 telephone survey of 508 employed Canadians, the author explores the implications for workers of alternative work practices (AWPs) associated with the high-performance model. There are three main...

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF JOB EVALUATION AND COMPARABLE WORTH.
July 1, 2001... G. MICHAEL PHILLIPS [*] The doctrine of comparable worth rests on an assumption that each job possesses an inherent worth independent of the market forces of supply and demand. Implementation of comparable worth further requires that...

GENDER EFFECTS IN BRITISH UNFAIR DISMISSAL TRIBUNAL HEARINGS.
July 1, 2001... PAUL L. LATREILLE [*] Using data on unfair dismissals from the 1992 Survey of Industrial Tribunal Applications, the authors investigate appellant success at British industrial tribunal hearings. They find evidence that, as in North...

THE CYCLICALITY OF REAL WAGES WITHIN EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE MATCHES.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... PAUL J. DEVEREUX [*] Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the cyclicality of wages within employer-employee matches for the years 1970-91. Recent research on wage cyclicality has suggested that wages are...

WAGE CURVE ANALYSES OF ESTABLISHMENT DATA FROM WESTERN GERMANY.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... UWE BLIEN [*] Using the IAB Establishment Panel, which is representative for western Germany, the authors find that establishment-level wages reacted to variations in the regional unemployment rate. The elasticity of wages with respect to...

THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOUBLING THE MINIMUM WAGE: THE CASE OF INDONESIA.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... MARTIN RAMA [*] Indonesian minimum wages were tripled in nominal terms, and doubled in real terms, in the first half of the 1990s. The author analyzes data from the 1993 labor force survey to evaluate the effects of this hike on wage...

COMMUNICATIONS.
July 1, 2001... WINSTON GERELUK [*] Grievance Arbitration: Not the Venue for Health and Safety Appeals Comment on Mark Harcourt and Sondra Harcourt, "When Can an Employee Refuse Unsafe Work and Expect to Be Protected from Discipline? Evidence from...

Industrial Relations Theory.(Working Time: Theory and Policy Implications)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Working Time: Theory and Policy Implications. By Francois Contensou and Radu Vranceanu. Williston, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 2000. 256 pp. ISBN 1-85898-996-5, $90.00 (cloth). Economists have long sought to understand the mechanisms determining...

Government and Industrial Relations.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997. Edited by Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster. New York: St. Martin's 2000. xvii, 238 pp. ISBN 0-312-22253-X, $69.95 (cloth). In 1994, as newly elected President Nelson Mandela took the...

The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States. By Marie Gottschalk. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 2000. x, 288 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3745-8, $45.00 (cloth);...

Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions.(Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation. By Michael H. Belzer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 256 pp. ISBN 0-19-512886-9, $35.00 (cloth). Deregulation of the trucking industry began in 1977, when the...

A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origin of Workers' Compensation.(Review)
July 1, 2001... A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origin of Workers' Compensation. By Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000. 316 pp. ISBN 0-22625-1632, $37.50...

Women, Work and Trade Unions.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Women, Work and Trade Unions. By Anne Munro. New York: Mansell, 2000. 226 pp. ISBN 0-7201-2328-3, $85.00 (cloth). This is a provocative, thoughtful book. It questions whether or not the trade union movement is currently capable of...

Human Resources, Management, and Personnel.(Internal Labour Markets in Japan)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Internal Labour Markets in Japan. By Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, and Yasushi Ohkusa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 291 pp. ISBN 0-521-64240-X, $69.95 (cloth). It seems like only yesterday that Japanese human resources...

Building the Innovative Organization: Management Systems That Encourage Innovation.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Building the Innovative Organization: Management Systems That Encourage Innovation. By James A. Christiansen. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. xiv, 357 pp. ISBN 0-312-23283-7, $59.95 (cloth). As indicated in the title, this book is intended to...

On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy.(Review)
July 1, 2001... On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy. By Stephen J. Frenkel, Marek Korczynski, Karen A. Shire, and May Tam. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. xv, 315 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3587-0,...

Managing Competitive Crisis: Strategic Choice and the Reform of Work Rules.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Managing Competitive Crisis: Strategic Choice and the Reform of Work Rules. By Martyn Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 142 pp. ISBN 0-52164005-9, $59.95 (cloth). This book examines the extent and nature of changes...

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Hard Work: The Making of Labor History. By Melvyn Dubofsky. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ix, 249 pp. ISBN 0-252-02551-2,$49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06868-8,$17.95 (paper). A member of the founding generation of the academic...

Labored Relations: Law, Politics, and the NLRB. A Memoir.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Labored Relations: Law, Politics, and the NLRB. A Memoir. By William B. Gould, IV. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 395 pp. ISBN 0-262-07205-X, $37.95 (cloth). In Labored Relations, the former Chairman of the NLRB gives a personalized...

Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements. By James Green. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 340 pp. ISBN 1-55849-242-0, $50.00 (cloth); 1-55849-242-9, $19.95 (paper). In this collection of...

Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1999. 172 pp. ISBN 0-231-11044-8, $45.00 (cloth); 0-231-11045-6, $17.50...