Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1989

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1989

Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining in California Agriculture.
October 1, 1989... Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining in California Agriculture For decades, low-paid seasonal farm workers have been unorganized and excluded from the National Labor Relations Act. Occasionally some workers have struck, but these...

A Guide to Critical Legal Studies.
October 1, 1989... A Guide to Critical Legal Studies Over the past decade and a half, two sharply different theories of law have emerged to challenge the dominant American philosophy of a pragmatic, process-oriented liberalism. The first is the law and...

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s.
October 1, 1989... Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s. The upheavals of the 1930s that convulsed American industrial relations and left the industrial union model in a pre-eminent position in the American trade union...

Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion.
October 1, 1989... Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion In this book, Robert Flanagan uses mainly regression analysis to analyze the reasons for the substantial increase in unfair labor practice charges under the National Labor Relations Act since the...

Labor Relations: the Basic Processes, Law and Practice.
October 1, 1989... Labor Relations: The Basic Processes, Law and Practice This introduction to labor relations law, co-authored by an academic who has been involved in a faculty union and a practicing management attorney, is unique among textbooks in the field...

Three Worlds of Labor Economics.
October 1, 1989... Three Worlds of Labor Economics Labor Economics This book contains the papers from a conference held at the University of Utah in October 1985. It is divided into four parts, each dealing with an issue in labor economics that is...

The Conflict Between Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Theories: the Case of the U.S. Labor Market.
October 1, 1989... The Conflict Between Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Theories: The Case of the U.S. Labor Market Although we have known as least since John Hicks's Value and Capital (1939) that disequilibrium trades create potentially significant income...

Working Hours: Assessing the Potential for Reduction.
October 1, 1989... Working Hours: Assessing the Potential for Reduction This book provides an interesting perspective on the European debate on work-time reduction. In summarizing the book, White states his view "that the possibilities for useful reductions in...

The Process of Technological Change: New Technology and Social Change in the Workplace.
October 1, 1989... The Process of Technological Change: New Technology and Social Choice in the Workplace Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior What a lovely book this is! It is simultaneously an impressively detailed...

Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port.
October 1, 1989... Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port For eight months in 1981, William Finlay immersed himself in the lives of longshoremen and stevedoring managers in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach....

New Technology and Industrial Relations.
October 1, 1989... New Technology and Industrial Relations When we hear the phrase "new technology," most of us imagine a new type of equipment such as a laser and its application to industry. But techniques for managing operations and workers are also a kind...

A Second Chance: Training for Jobs.
October 1, 1989... A Second Chance: Training for Jobs This brief volume provides an excellent introduction to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the nation's major employment and training program for the economically disadvantaged and other special...

Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy.
October 1, 1989... Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy Recent initiatives in U.S. employment policy have centered on problems of worker dislocation resulting from structural change in our economic base. Expanded worker training...

Fundamental Problems of Labour Relations in the Law of the European Socialist Countries.
October 1, 1989... Fundamental Problems of Labour Relations in the Law of the European Socialist Countries The English-speaking reader to whom this book is addressed will appreciate the information it provides on labor law in the European Socialist countries,...

Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South.
October 1, 1989... Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South Labor History In recent years historians of working people have increasingly turned to "oral history" as a means of understanding how workers...

Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers.
October 1, 1989... Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers This useful anthology is a collection of papers and comments presented in a 1986 conference at Penn State by labor historians, trade unionists, and other commentators...

Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: the Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925.
October 1, 1989... Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891--1925 It has long been known that the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a highly democractic union, with a very active rank and file. In the minds of most...

The Politics of the Right to Work: the Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979.
October 1, 1989... The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979. This book is an engaging, extensively researched, and well-written study of organized labor's response to efforts to limit union security arrangements....

Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924.
October 1, 1989... Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924. Until 1840 most American workers were native-born. In the 1840s immigration rates shot up, and so many immigrants entered working-class occupations that by 1850...

William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader.
October 1, 1989... William Green: Biographers of a Labor Leader. When historians attempt to personalize the impending split within the AFL in 1935, the principal characters are typically John L. Lewis and William Hutcheson. Rarely is William Green, the...

Labor history, industrial relations, and the crisis of American labor. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
October 1, 1989... LABOR HISTORY, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN LABOR In this look at the disciplinary history of industrial relations and labor history, the author focuses on the long period of disassociation between the two fields and the...

Reckoning with company unions: the case of Thompson Products, 1934-1964. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
October 1, 1989... RECKONING WITH COMPANY UNIONS: THE CASE OF THOMPSON PRODUCTS, 1934-1964 COMPANY unions were a controversial personnel and union-avoidance strategy of American employers during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, the strategy came to be viewed as a...

Managers and nonunion workers in the rubber industry: union avoidance strategies in the 1930s. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
October 1, 1989... MANAGERS AND NONUNION WORKERS IN THE RUBBER INDUSTRY: UNION AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN THE 1930s In retrospect it is clear that the Forgotten Man of the 1930s was not the worker, as Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested, but the manager who sat on...

"Light manufacturing": the feminization of American office work, 1900-1930. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
October 1, 1989... "LIGHT MANUFACTURING": THE FEMINIZATION OF AMERICAN OFFICE WORK, 1900-1930 WHEN Edith Charles went to work as a comptometer operator at Brown and Sharpe in 1913, she found that the Providence machine tool manufacturer had implemented...

Models of man in industrial relations research.
October 1, 1989... MODELS OF MAN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH THE April 1983 issue of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review contained eight papers presented at a symposium on "Behavioral Research in Industrial Relations" sponsored by Columbia...

Models of man in industrial relations research: discussion.
October 1, 1989... Models of Main in industrial Relations Research: Discussion Why Psychology Is Not the Sine qua Non In his stimulating paper, "Models of Man in Industrial Relations Research," Bruce Kaufman raises the question, "What is behavioral...

Do union organizers matter? Individual differences, campaign practices, and representation election outcomes.
October 1, 1989... DO UNION ORGANIZERS MATTER? INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, CAMPAIGN PRACTICES, AND REPRESENTATION ELECTION OUTCOMES A substantial body of research has been published on the determinants of the outcomes of union representation elections. (See...

The makewhole remedy in California agriculture.
October 1, 1989... THE MAKEWHOLE REMEDY IN CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE THE 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) was enacted "to insure peace in the agricultural fields by guaranteeing justice for all agricultural workers" (Yates, 1978:668-69) and...

Unionism and income inequality: a comment on Rubin. (includes reply by Rubin to critique of her July 1988 article in this journal)
October 1, 1989... Unionism and Income Inequality: A Comment on Rubin In a recent article in this journal, Beth Rubin argues that unionism in the postwar United States has acted, in part, to increase income inequality among American workers. (1) Arguing from a...