Officers of the IRRA
Preface
Alphabetical List of Authors
IRRA Membership Information
I.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Sheldon Friedman, Presiding
Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work
Thomas A. Kochan
II.
WAGE INEQUALITY AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS
Howard Wial, Presiding
Unions and Wage Inequality in the Grocery Industry
John W. Budd and Brian P. McCall
III.
EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS: IS THERE A EURO SOCIAL CONTRACT?
Morris Kleiner, Presiding
European Works Councils: The Early Belgian Experience
Thérèse Beaupain, steve Jefferys, and Gaëlle Lanotte
Similarities and Differences in a Sample of European Works Council Agreements
Trevor Bain and Kim Hester
IV.
INSIDE THE BLACK BOX: WORK ORGANIZATION, WAGES, AND OTHER LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
James Rebitzer, Presiding
Outcomes for Contingent Workers in High-Performance Work Systems
Brenda A. Lautsch
V.
REFEREED PAPERS—LABOR–MANAGEMENT RELATIONS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Nancy Brown Johnson, Presiding
The British Experiment with Labor Law Reform: An Alternative to Wagnerism? John Godard and Stephen J. Wood
Discussion
Timothy D. Chandler
JEFFREY B. ARTHUR
VI.
REFEREED PAPERS—LABOR MARKETS AND LABOR ECONOMICS
Morris Kleiner, Presiding
Pensions and Employee Voice: Survey Evidence from Canada Andrew A. Luchak
OSHA Enforcement and
Regulatory Compliance in the U.S. Construction Industry
David Weil
Skills Shifts and
Changes in Racial Labor Market Allocation over the 1980s
Patricia Simpson
VII.
EMERGING MODELS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: BALANCING THE NEEDS OF MULTIPLE
SHAREHOLDERS
James Auerbach, Presiding
Some Effects of
Financial Systems and Corporate Governance on Labor Outcomes
Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton
VIII.
REFEREED PAPERS—UNIONS AND EMPLOYEE VOICE
Jill Kriesky, Presiding
NLRB Rulings on Unfair Labor Practice and Economic Strikes: Empirical Evidence of Consistency
Michael H. LeRoy
Organizing Against
“Free Trade”: The Teamsters NAFTA Trucking Campaign
Frank Borgers
A Profile of a Union-Led Political Coalition ROLAND ZULLO
Discussion
LOIS GRAY
Michelle Kaminski
IX.
NEW INITIATIVES IN THE REGULATION OF THE WORKPLACE
Robert Pleasure, Presiding
Everything Old Is New Again: Regulating Labor Standards in the U.S. Apparel Industry
David Weil
Discussion
Charles A. Jeszeck
X.
WORKPLACE TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE
Paul Osterman, Presiding
The Transfer of
Competences to European-Based Japanese Affiliates
Edward Lorenz and Nathalie Lazaric
Discussion
Peter B. Doeringer
Phillip B. Beaumont
XI.
RETHINKING THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE: LABOR’S CHALLENGES,
LABOR’S OPPORTUNITIES IN THE “NEW ECONOMY”
Douglas Fulton, Presiding
Linking Institutions of Governance and Industrial Outcomes: The Case of Global Aircraft Engine Manufacturing
Beth A. Almeida
Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Increased Shareholder Activism for Workers
Christian E. Weller
XII.
BRINGING INDUSTRY BACK IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS STUDIES: A 20-YEAR EXAMINATION OF
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TRENDS IN FOUR INDUSTRIES
Peter Feuille, Presiding
Labor Relations in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Industry 1976–1998: Preliminary Findings and Emerging Issues
Howard Stanger
Airline Industrial Relations Following Deregulation
Nancy Brown Johnson
The Concentration of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing: Examples of Its Implications for Employment and Productivity
Morris M. Kleiner, Adam M. Pilarski, and Yonglin Ren
Recent Developments in U.S. Maritime Collective Bargaining
Clifford B. Donn
Discussion
Adrienne E. Eaton
XIII.
RESTORING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Donald S. Wasserman, Presiding
Employee Compensation in the Federal Sector: Is Comparability Enough? Dale Belman
The BLS Approach to Benchmarking: The Compensation 2000 Program for General Schedule Employees
Charles H. Fay
Comparability and the
Social Contract: Reflections on the Postal Experience
Haejin Kim and Paula B. Voos
XIV.
NAFTA AT FIVE YEARS: IMPACT ON LABOR MARKETS AND LABOR RELATIONS IN NORTH
AMERICA
Anthony Giles, Presiding
Employment Growth in
North America Since NAFTA: What Has Changed
María Elena Vicario
The Effectiveness of
the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
Parbudyal Singh and Roy J. Adams
Discussion Russell E. Smith
Sheila Katz
Jon Hiatt
XV.
ANNUAL STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION
The Effects of Network Structure and Content on Learning Environments in the Workplace
Mooweon Rhee
XVI.
POSTER
SESSION 1
Cheryl L. Maranto, Presiding
Professors, Managers, and Human Resource Education
Mitchell Langbert
Human Resource Departments and the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: An Empirical Study
Arup Varma, Lamont Stallworth, and Douglas Mahoney
Cooperation as a New Mode of Regulating and Planning Occupational and Technical Training: Quebec’s Sectoral Committees
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Pierre Doray, and Carol Landry
Self-Interested Ideology and Attitudes toward Unions and Affirmative Action: A Greater Conflict for the Left?
Janet Spitz and Alison Konrad
Downsizing, Safety Practices, and Workers’ Compensation Costs
Yong-Seung Park and Richard J. Butler
The Impact of Employee Suggestions on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study
Dongone Kim
Change, Innovation, and IT in U.S. National Unions
Jack Fiorito, Paul Jarley, and John T. Delaney
The Labor Market Experience of Immigrant Spouses: The Initial Years
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Marie D. Connolly
There’s the Rub: Using Nonstandard Jobs to Buffer Tensions in Employment and Customer Relations Libby Bishop
XVII.
POSTER
SESSION 2
Cheryl L. Maranto, Presiding
European Works
Councils: Alternative Forms of Industrial Democracy
Stephen J. Havlovic, Dominique Besson, and Slimane Haddadj
Public-Sector
Collective Bargaining in Michigan: Law and Recent Developments
Gregory M. Saltzman and Shlomo Sperka
The Effects of General and Specific Beliefs about Labor Unions on the Voting Intentions of Professional Pharmacists
Patrick P. McHugh and Matthew M. Bodah
An Examination of the Pluralistic Nature of Industrial Relations in the Professional Sports Industry
Robert C. Hoell and L. Scott Casino
The Effects and Regulation of Marital Status Discrimination
Timothy D. Chandler, Robin Cheramie, Jack Howard, and Rafael Gely
Who Goes Last? The
Role of Race and Composition in Layoff Decisions
Christopher D. Zatzick and Marta M. Elvira
Third Path to Industrial Democracy? Joint Conference Plans in the 1920s Sekiguchi Teiichi
The Union Organizing Revisited at a Yeshiva University-A Case Study KAREN E. BOROFF
XVIII.
IRRA ANNUAL REPORTS
Executive Board Meeting in Washington, DC
Executive Board Meeting in Boston
General Membership Meeting IN Boston
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