Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1991

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1991

Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia.
October 1, 1991... Filippelli has assembled a collection of well reported descriptions of 254 conflicts. The volume includes a general chronology of U.S. labor relations events moving from an indentured servants' rebellion in 1636 through the 1989 Eastern...

Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant.
October 1, 1991... In working for the Japanese, Joseph and Suzy Fucini look at the problem-laden first years at Mazda's Flat Rock, Michigan, automobile assembly plant. The issues are similar to those found by other studies of Japanese-managed plants in the United...

On Strike at Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement.
October 1, 1991... When we finally explain the current decline of American unions, it will be more from detailed case studies than from aggregate data and deductive theories, not because case studies are inherently superior, but because the success of business...

The Economics of Comparable Worth.
October 1, 1991... This book examines the controversial issue of equal pay for comparable worth, which has been implemented by a number of state and local governments in the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. The book's two basic objectives...

The Bureaucratic Labor Market: The Case of the Federal Civil Service.
October 1, 1991... DiPrete explains that this book is intended to analyze "the determinants of advancement in white-collar job ladders, the extent to which women and minorities are disadvantaged in the competition for advancement, and the ability of structural...

The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stock: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation.
October 1, 1991... This book is a study of the retirement incentives (or work disincentives) in a large sample of defined-benefit pension plans, and the behavioral impact of these incentives on the employees in one large Fortune 500 firm. The research is based on...

Employee Ownership: Revolution or Ripoff?
October 1, 1991... Joseph Blasi has written an important book on an important subject. Employee ownership has increasingly been touted as a solution to many of the economic problems currently afflicting the United States, and billions of tax dollars have been...

The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives.
October 1, 1991... If you are interested in views of several senior figures in the sociology of work on the state of current knowledge on selected topics in the field, The Nature of Work is for you. The volume is part of the American Sociological Association...

Strategic Pay: Aligning Organizational Strategies and Pay Systems.
October 1, 1991... Lawler says that "Strategic Pay is aimed at managers who are interested in pay system issues" (p. xii)--a potentially large audience. Many books have been written on pay system issues, but the concept of pay strategy is of 1980s vintage, and...

Human Resource Strategies for Organizations in Transition.
October 1, 1991... This book is a collection of twenty-four papers from the third research symposium of the Human Resource Planning Society. The papers are grouped into six chapters covering organizational design, organizational rewards, cultural change, the...

Maintaining Professional Competence: Approaches to Career Enhancement, Vitality, and Success Throughout a Work Life.
October 1, 1991... Maintaining Professional Competence: Approaches to Career Enhancement, Vitality, and Success Throughout a Work Life. Edited by Sherry L. Willis and Samuel S. Dubin. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1990. xxii, 328 pp. $29.95. In recent year,...

Foreign Linkages: Modifying Disability Benefit Programs to Encourage Employment.
October 1, 1991... The short essays in this excellent collection describe how national public rehabilitation programs are linked with disability benefit systems in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Israel. The book fills a significant gap in...

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940.
October 1, 1991... The reduction in the workweek from 70 or more hours to 40 or fewer is one of the most significant changes in Western society since the industrial revolution. Combined with annual holidays and retirement pension system, the reduction in the...

British Unemployment: 1919-1939, A Study in Public Policy.
October 1, 1991... This book presents a detailed survey of unemployment policy in interwar Britain. Garside focuses on the debates over policy options for dealing with the persistent and large-scale unemployment that existed throughout the period rather than on...

Rank and File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
October 1, 1991... Throughout labor's history, "rank-and-file" or "reform" movements have existed in many unions. Over the past 25 years, these movements have played significant roles in the United Steelworkers (Steelworkers Fight Back), the United Auto Workers...

Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration.
October 1, 1991... The movement of black southerners out of the South during the World War I era constitutes one of the significant folk-wanderings of American history. Although substantial numbers of blacks left Virginia and the Carolinas and Georgia for New...

The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker.
October 1, 1991... This book is a reissue of the famous fictional diary detailing the events of the 1909--1910 "uprising of the 20,000," a thirteen-week garment workers' strike on New York's Lower East Side. First published in 1910, the novel was intended to gain...

U.S. Labor Relations: 1945-1989, Accommodation and Conflict.
October 1, 1991... The essays in this collection, each by an experienced labor educator, examine the decline of unions in the United States. At issue is whether (and to what extent) organized labor chose its own course and eventual decline, or was acted on by...

Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day.
October 1, 1991... This book provides a historical account of the American labor movement's campaign for shortened work time. According to the authors, the demand for reduced working hours was an issue of potential interest to all workers irrespective of their...