Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting

Table of Contents


Officers of the IRRA                                    

Preface                                     

Alphabetical List of Authors

IRRA Membership Information

                         

I.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Magdalena Jacobsen, Presiding

 

Ensuring Respect for Human Rights in Employment

Sheldon Friedman 

                    

II.
Global Child Labor: What We Know, What We Need To Know
Stephen Havlovic, Presiding

 

Global Child Labor: Past as Prologue

Hugh D. Hindman        

              

Discussion

Linda F. Golodner      

 

III.
New Research On Labor Market Intermediaries
Rosemary Batt, Presiding

 

Moving the Demand Side: Intermediaries in a Changing Labor Market 

Annette Bernhardt, Manuel Pastor, Erin Hatton, and Sarah Zimmerman

                       

Staircases and Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Career Mobility 

Chris Benner, Bob Brownstein, Laura Dresser, and Laura Leete

                   

Discussion     

Chris Tilly   

           

IV.
Human Resources, Labor And Employment Law, Labor Studies, And Union Research, Refereed Papers
Paul F. Clark, Presiding

 

Canadian Employment Equity Laws and Multinational Firms: An Institutional Analysis             

John J. Lawler, Harish C. Jain, Fred Walumbwa, and Vrinda Deva

                      

WIA in Chicago: Constraints on Access Enable a “Work-First” System                

Helena H. Worthen

 

Unionists’ Reactions to Rising Inequality: The Relationship between Microjustice and Macrojustice Revisited

Patricia A. Simpson and Michelle Kaminski

   

Discussion

Gregory Woodhead and Jane McDonald Pines

      

V.
Human Rights On The Margins Of Employment: Contingent And Informal Sector Workers In North America
Mark Thompson, Presiding

 

Contingent and Informal-Sector Workers in North America: Workplace Human Rights    

Kevin Banks

           

Contingent Work: The Role of the Market, Collective Bargaining, and Legislation         

Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt

                            

The Legal Landscape for Contingent Workers in the United States     

Catherine K. Ruckelshaus and Bruce Goldstein

                      

Discussion     

Judy Fudge

Russell E. Smith  

                    

VI.
WHAT WORKERS WANT: DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION
Joel Rogers, Presiding

 

Worker Representation in the Truckload Sector: What Do Truckers Want?

Michael H. Belzer

                   

Engineers’ Voice in the Internet Economy

Benjamin Campbell and Clair Brown

 

VII.
LABOR LAW, EMPLOYER OPPOSITION, AND THE DIVERGENT DEVELOPMENT OF U.S. AND CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
James Gross Presiding

 

Explaining Canadian–American Differences in Union Density 

Daphne G. Taras

 

Frustrated Demands for Unionization: The Case of the United States and Canada Revisited

Rafael Gomez, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Noah Meltz

          

VIII.
The Changing Nature Of Low-Skill Work: Evidence From Field Research
Peter Cappelli and Takao Kato, Presiding

 

Preliminary Evidence on Employment Practices in Central New York Firms                   

Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato, and Adam Weinberg

                      

From Piece Rates to Group Incentives: Can the Company and Its Employees Gain?

Morris M. Kleiner, Susan R. Helper, and Yonglin Ren

 

Discussion

Peter Cappelli 

       

IX.
NEW ISSUES IN GROWING OLDER: PENSIONS AS PART OF THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT
Robert J. Thornton, Presiding

 

The Ephemera of Pension Plans 

Lorraine Schmall

                     

ERISA’s Failure to Adequately Protect Defined-Contribution-Plan Participants        

Susan J. Stabile

                      

X.
GENDER AND WORKPLACE INEQUALITY
Heidi Hartmann, Presiding

 

A New Look at the Gender Earnings Gap for College Graduates

Judith McDonald and Robert Thornton

 

Gender, Sex, and Salaries in Academe: Is Productivity Enough? Academic Income Returns on Sexist, Racist, and System-Defender Ideologies

Janet Spitz and Alison Konrad

     

XI.
Do Living-Wage Laws Benefit Workers?
Robert Pollin, Presiding

 

The “Social Movement” Dynamics of Living Wage Campaigns Bruce Nissen          

Discussion

Richard S. Toikka  

    

XII.
Worker Rights Of Freedom Of Association And Collective Bargaining
Lance Compa, Presiding

 

Collective Bargaining as a Fundamental Human Right

George E. Ogle and Hoyt N. Wheeler

 

Discussion 

Edward E. Potter       

James A. Gross

                     

XIII.
Employment As A Human Right
Sumner Rosen, Presiding

 

How to Implement True, Full Employment     

L. Randall Wray

 

Discussion

Daniel J. B. Mitchell  

Thomas I. Palley

                 

XIV.
HUMAN RESOURCES AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Craig A. Olson, Presiding

 

Low-Involvement Work Practices and Business Performance        

David Lewin     

                 

XV.
WHO BENEFITS FROM WORK REORGANIZATION? EVIDENCE FROM FOUR INDUSTRIES
Larry Hunter, Presiding

 

Team Models of Work Organization and Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers in American Hospitals    

Peter Berg, Ann Frost, and Gil Preuss

                      

XVI.
Labor Markets And Economics, And International Refereed Papers
Stephen Hills, Presiding

 

Comparing Public- and Private-Sector Earnings Distributions over Time   

Keith A. Bender

  

Pluralist in Theory, Unitarist in Practice: Industrial Relations Management in Irish Greenfield Sites

Patrick Gunnigle, Sarah MacCurtain, and Michael Morley

                     

Import Penetration and Union Membership in a Small, Open Economy: New Zealand in the 1990s

Stephen B. Blumenfeld, Aaron Crawford, and Pat Walsh                      

 

The Effects of Public Policy on Pension Coverage in Canada  

Tony (Tao) Fang and Andrew A. Luchak 

Editor’s Note: This Paper won the IRRA Student Writing Award for 2000

 

Discussion

Howard R. Stanger    

Michael H. Belzer

               

XVII.
PRISON LABOR: ECONOMICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Gregory Woodhead, Presiding

 

Industrial Relations and Inmate Labor       

Ray Marshall

                   

Costs, Benefits, and Distributional Consequences of Inmate Labor

Jeffrey Kling and Alan Krueger

                      

Prison Labor and International Human Rights

Lee Swepston

  

XVIII.
Distinguished Panel: Workers’ Rights In The United States
James A. Gross, Presiding

Participants:  

James A. Gross      

Ken Roth                      

Edward E. Potter 

                     

XIX.
POSTER SESSION
Stephen J. Havlovic, Presiding

 

Recruitment, Selection, and Promotion of Racial Minority and Aboriginal Police Officers in Selected Canadian Police Services              

Harish C. Jain, Parbudyal Singh, and Carol Agocs

                  

ILO Standards and Australian Laws Prohibiting Unfair Dismissal    Anna Chapman     

Human Resource Management and Small Business: Areas of Concern as a Small Business Grows    

Jack L. Howard

                     

The Impact of Research Productivity on Early Retirement of University Professors          

Seongsu Kim

                              

A Five-Year Analysis of Current Human Resource Management Publications       

Jenny M. Hoobler and Nancy Brown Johnson

                                    

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

         

Organizational Justice and Grievance Research: An Agenda for Future Studies on Workplace Justice   

James P. Burton and Richard B. Peterson

      

A Conceptualization of Social Responsibility for Labor Unions     

Cedric Dawkins and Vanessa Hill

                

Effects of Employee Suggestions and Union Support on Plant Performance under Gain Sharing               

Jeffrey B. Arthur and Dong-One Kim

               

Union Elections in the Airlines      

Nancy Brown Johnson and Jenny M. Hoobler

                      

The Effect of Union Membership on Job Satisfaction in Korea

Young-Myon Lee and In-Gang Na

                      

Work as Home and Community: Culture of a Women-Led Company

Monica Bielski

        

The Effects of Linking and Communal Forms of Social Capital on Individual Outcomes           

Frits K. Pil, Carrie Leana, and Melvin Smith

 

The Union Wage Effect in Korea           

Haejin Kim

               

Transforming Public-Sector Collective Bargaining

Margie L. McInerney

 

Current Trends in Labor Mediation: Perspectives of Federal Mediators           

Patrice M. Mareschal

   

Labor–Management Cooperation: Codification, Implementation, and Effectiveness                             

Patrick P. McHugh, Seong J. Yim, and Matthew M. Bodah

                                         

Work Motivation Theory in the Age of Industrial Relations Reform     

Brenda C. Sun

               

Cultural Norms and Comparative Industrial Relations Theory

Boyd Black

                  

Human Resource Flexibility Systems, Environmental Change Requiring Employee Adaptation, Productivity, and Voluntary Turnover

Sean A. Way

 

Employment Mediation: Exploring the Role of Representation at the USPS

Kiwhan Kim, Susan Raines, and Lisa B. Bingham      

 

XX.
IRRA ANNUAL REPORTS

 

Executive Board Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Executive Board Meeting in New Orleans                                        

General Membership Meeting in New Orleans         

Audit Report for 2000                                                                                                           


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