Industrial and Labor Relations Review articles from October 1998

Industrial and Labor Relations Review archives from October 1998

Industrial relations system transformation.
October 1, 1998... In recent years, a debate has opened regarding "transformations" of industrial relations systems in many countries. Supporting the existence of widespread transformations is a growing body of research. What is remarkable is that these...

The transition from formal nonunion representation to unionization: a contemporary case.
October 1, 1998... Most research by industrial relations scholars focuses on unionized worksites and assumes that unionization introduces workers to collective action for the first time. Many of the workers whom industrial relations scholars treat as...

R&D and unionism: comparative evidence from British companies and establishments. (includes appendix)
October 1, 1998... The strongest body of evidence that unionism may harm economic growth lies in the analysis of the relation between unionism and spending on R&D (Freeman 1992). The relatively low growth rates of the U.K. economy have frequently been attributed to...

Beyond the incidence of employer-provided training. (includes appendices)
October 1, 1998... Increasing international competition, new technologies such as computers, and changing work organization have spurred discussion of the ways in which workers acquire new skills for a rapidly evolving labor market. Historically, the United States...

Employer skill demands and labor market outcomes of blacks and women.
October 1, 1998... In recent years, inequality in labor market outcomes both between and within various demographic groups has grown quite substantially. Differences in earnings and employment rates across education groups have risen; controlling for education,...

"Flexible" workplace practices: evidence from a nationally representative survey. (includes appendix)
October 1, 1998... The dramatic changes of recent decades in the environment in which companies operate - arising in part from an intensification of international competition and rapid changes in technology - have engendered a lively debate about the strategies...

Wage compensation for dangerous work revisited.
October 1, 1998... This paper addresses two issues crucial to the interpretation of studies attempting to estimate wage compensation for dangerous work: the effect of noncompetitive aspects of labor markets, and potential error in the methods used to attribute risk...

Theorizing in Industrial Relations: Approaches and Applications.
October 1, 1998... Edited by Jack Barbash and Noah M. Meltz. Sydney: Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training, University of Sydney, 1997. 264 pp. ISBN 1 86451 290 3, $AU25.00. This book is especially notable because it contains what may...

Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss.
October 1, 1998... By Miriam A. Golden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 195 pp. ISBN 0-52148209-7, $59.95 (cloth); 0-521-48432-4, $18.95 (paper). Heroic Defeats is an important book, both for what it tells us about strikes and for what it tells us...

Unions at the Crossroads: Strategic Membership, Financial and Political Perspectives.
October 1, 1998... By Marick F. Masters. Westport, Conn.: Quorum, 1997. 248 pp. ISBN 1-56720-129-6, $65.00 (cloth). Perhaps the most often asked questions about the future of the American labor movement are whether unions are impoverished after all these years...

Labor Arbitration Under Fire.
October 1, 1998... Edited by James L. Stern and Joyce M. Najita. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii, 265 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3305-3, $39.95 (cloth). On the dust jacket of this book, the breathless title is superimposed on an image of crosshairs, and...

It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty.
October 1, 1998... By Rebecca M. Blank. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 340 pp. ISBN 0-691-002675-0, $29.95 (cloth). Relatively few economists take the time to write book-length treatments of poverty or welfare, choosing instead the easier task of...

Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring.
October 1, 1998... By Deborah M. Figart and Peggy Kahn. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 225 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2679-X, $19.95. This book offers a detailed examination of the efforts of the pay equity movement in Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s to reform...

Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs.
October 1, 1998... By Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1997. 131 pp. ISBN 0-88099-180-1, $22.00 (cloth); 0-88099-179-8, $12.00 (paper). Both of these short, well-written books on welfare...

From Welfare to Work: Corporate Initiatives and Welfare Reform.
October 1, 1998... By Felice Davidson Perlmutter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 123 pp. ISBN 0-19-511015-3, $14.95 (paper). Both of these short, well-written books on welfare reform are pragmatic in spirit, drawing lessons from experience. They differ...

The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s.
October 1, 1998... By Mildred Allen Beik. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xix, 447 pp. ISBN 0-271-01566-7, $60.00 (cloth); 0-271-01567-5, $22.95 (paper). No union has left a more durable imprint on the history of American labor...

The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
October 1, 1998... Edited by John H. M. Laslett. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xvi, 576 pp. ISBN 0-271-01537-3-7, $65.00 (cloth). No union has left a more durable imprint on the history of American labor than the United Mine...

Where is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry: 1870-1960.
October 1, 1998... By William F. Hartford. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. x, 256pp. ISBN 1-55849-022-1, $35.00 (cloth). The history of the New England textile industry is familiar to many scholars, but it is not without narrative gaps that...

Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality.
October 1, 1998... By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. New York: Twayne (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan), 1996. 176 pp. ISBN 0-8057-9120 5, $28.95 (cloth). Recent decades have seen a welcome expansion of efforts by historians to explore the experiences...

From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mine Workers' Noble Experience.
October 1, 1998... By Ivana Krajcinovic. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1997. xiv, 212 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3392-4, $37.50 (cloth). The Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is a topic that has...