Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting

Table of Contents


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                                                                           

Audit Report for 1999                                                                                                            


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