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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