Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1995

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1995

Union rents as a source of takeover gains among target shareholders.
October 1, 1995... The 1980s witnessed a significant restructuring in much of the American corporate sector, with a dramatic increase in mergers and acquisitions. At its peak in 1985 and 1986, the economic value of merger and acquisition activity totaled nearly...

Union effects on nonunion wages: evidence from panel data on industries and cities.
October 1, 1995... The two prevailing models of the impact of unionization on the nonunion sector are the union threat model and the crowding or spillover model. The union threat model predicts that an increase in union strength, typically measured as the...

Successor unions in transitional economies: evidence from St. Petersburg.
October 1, 1995... This decade's immense political and economic changes in eastern Europe potentially have profound implications for labor-management relations. Among the patterns in Russia that have begun to be documented are a tendency toward decentralization...

Worker participation and productivity in labor-managed and participatory capitalist firms: a meta-analysis.
October 1, 1995... Scientists have known for centuries that a single study will not resolve a major issue. Indeed, a small sample study will not even resolve a minor issue. Thus, the foundation of science is the cumulation of knowledge from the results of many...

The effects of automobile strikes on the stock value of steel suppliers.
October 1, 1995... Economists have long focused attention on strikes as an integral part of the collective bargaining process. Many studies document detrimental effects of strikes (see, for example, Becker and Olson 1986; Davidson et al. 1988), but nearly all...

Job applicant screening by a Japanese transplant: a union-avoidance tactic.
October 1, 1995... During the past decade, the American automobile industry has been transformed by an influx of Japanese-owned assembly and parts plants. During the 1990s, the presence of these Japanese "transplants" is expected to grow further (Chappell 1992),...

Interindustry wage differentials and the gender wage gap.
October 1, 1995... Several recent studies have demonstrated the existence of interindustry wage differentials that cannot be explained either by productivity-related characteristics of workers or by industry characteristics such as unionization or concentration...

The wage effects of cumulative job mobility.
October 1, 1995... In this paper we examine the impact of cumulative job mobility on the subsequent wages of young men and women. Most previous work on this subject has focused on the impact of specific mobility events such as quits or layoffs, rather than on...

Labor market effects of women's post-school-age training.
October 1, 1995... In the United States, poverty and labor market disadvantage are much more common among women, especially unmarried older women, than among men. In 1980 nonworking unmarried women dominated the poor population over age 55 (Sandell 1987). Older...

Levels of responsibility in jobs and the distribution of earnings among U.S. engineers, 1961-1986.
October 1, 1995... Recent studies document a dramatic rise in wage inequality in the United States over the past 30 years. A striking conclusion of this research is that perhaps 60% of the change in wage dispersion from 1964 to 1988 cannot be explained by...

The New Unionism in the New Society: Public Sector Unions in the Redistributive State.
October 1, 1995... By Leo Troy. Lanham, Md.: George Mason University Press, 1994. 228 pp. ISBN 0913969-69-9, $42.50 (cloth). This volume is an account and analysis of the development of public sector unions in the United States from the 1960s to the early...

Women Challenging Unions: Feminism, Democracy and Militancy.
October 1, 1995... Edited by Linda Briskin and Patricia McDermott. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 346 pp. ISBN 0-8020-2872-1, $50.00 (cloth); 0-8020-7376X, $19.95 (paper). The 17 essays in this book, edited by two feminist academics, argue that...

Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions.
October 1, 1995... Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman and Morris M. Kleiner. Madison, Wis.: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1993. 390 pp. ISBN 0-913447-56-0, $28.00. The Industrial Relations Research Association has provided its members with another...

Gender and Trade Unions.
October 1, 1995... By Elizabeth Lawrence. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis, 1994. xii, 175 pp. ISBN 0-7484-0146-6, $75.00 (cloth); 0-7484-0147-4, $24.95 (paper). Gender and Trade Unions is a case study of shop stewards and lay union officers in the Sheffield...

Loading the Scales: Is the Balance Between the Right to Strike and the Right to Operate in Need of Reform?
October 1, 1995... Labor and Employment Law By Daniel V. Yager. Washington, D.C.: Employment Policy Foundation, 1993. x, 192 pp. ISBN 0-916559-41-6, $25.00 (paper). At this difficult time for unions--when the percentage of the work force organized has...

Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy.
October 1, 1995... Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions Edited by Paul Burstein. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. xii, 444 pp. ISBN 0-202-30475-2, $54.95 (cloth); 0-202-30476-0, $25.95 (paper). This edited collection of 28...

Labor Economics and Industrial Relations.
October 1, 1995... Labor Economics Edited by Clark Kerr and Paul D. Staudohar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 752 pp. ISBN 0-674-50641-3, $38.00 (cloth). This book contains an interesting, somewhat eclectic set of essays on...

On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation Among Airline Unions.
October 1, 1995... Human Resources, Management, and Personnel by David J. Walsh. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1994. xiv, 208 pp. ISBN 0-87546-323-1,$36.00 (cloth); 0-87546-329-0, $17.95 (paper). David Walsh argues in this book that although interunion ties...

Age, Work, and Social Security.
October 1, 1995... Edited by A. B. Atkinson and Martin Rein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 374 pp. ISBN 0-31208548-6. In most industrialized countries, workers' average age when leaving the labor force has decreased dramatically over the past 20 years....

Times Are Changing: Working Time in 14 Industrialised Countries.
October 1, 1995... Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Peter Dawkins, and Francois Michon. Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1994. 323 pp. This book, which originated in a set of "International Symposium on Working Time" conferences that took place...

Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination: An International Perspective.
October 1, 1995... By Morley Gunderson. Geneva: International Labor Office, 1994. 128 pp. ISBN 92-2-108743-3, $18.00 (paper). This brief book is a highly condensed discussion of the legal, methodological, and empirical underpinnings of comparable worth. The...

Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility.
October 1, 1995... By Bennett Harrison. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 324 pages. ISBN 0-465-06942-8, $25.00. Individuals, families, and societies of all kinds have always understood the world in part through mythology. Although perhaps less so than in earlier...

Labor Market Institutions in Europe.
October 1, 1995... Edited by Gunther Schmidt. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 291 pp. ISBN 1-56324-411X, $55.00 (cloth); 1-56324-412-8, $24.95 (paper). This volume examines the impact of institutions on labor markets in a number of European Union (KU)...

The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America.
October 1, 1995... By Kathryn Marie Dudley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 224 pages. ISBN 0-226-16908-1, $26.95 (cloth). America's long transit from an affluent society based on national economic regulation toward an unknown future in an...

Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster.
October 1, 1995... By Edward P. Johanningsmeier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 433 pp. ISBN 0-691-03331-5, $29.95. For over a half-century, William Z. Foster was a major figure in the American labor movement and on the political left. First...

Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century.
October 1, 1995... By David Montgomery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. x, 189 pp. ISBN 0521-42057-1, $22.95. Citizen Worker, which originated as a series of lectures delivered at Oxford University, is David Montgomery's latest testimony to the...