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Most scholars and business people have traditionally regarded industrial relations in the United States and Canada to be so different from practices in other liberal democracies as to render comparison of little practical utility. Fundamental differences, such as the influence of "pure and simple" business-like philosophy on the American and Canadian labor movements in contrast to the socialist agenda of trade unions in other industrialized countries, have prompted observers to question the value of comparative analysis. Roy Adams, however, challenges this view by constructing a theoretical framework within which the comparison of industrial relations across the advanced liberal democratic world may be made comprehensible. --Publisher's description.
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Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th edition, compiled by the Labour Law Casebook Group, is reviewed.
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This article discusses Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards and Your Voice at Work: Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. During the past decade a strong international consensus has emerged that holds that a set of core labor rights should be regarded as fundamental human rights. The appearance of these 2 reports indicates that the situation is rapidly changing.
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The book, "International and comparative employment relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies," edited by Greg J. Bambier, Russell D. Lansbury, and Nick Wailes, is reviewed.
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This article is a critical review of "Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case," by Fay Faraday, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.
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The article reviews the book, "Management And Labour In Europe," by Christel Lane.
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What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes, is reviewed.
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The central focus of this article is the effort by Canadian unions to organize Wal-Mart. Organizing the world's largest corporation is considered to be critical because the company's business "template" calls for wages and benefits considerably inferior to those of unionized workers. To date, although a few bargaining units have been certified, Wal-Mart has managed to thwart all attempts to negotiate collective agreements. However, because the United Food and Commercial Workers have certified units in a few provinces with first contract arbitration, the achievement, eventually, of a collective agreement appears to be likely.
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The author analyses the operation of employment standards in Ontario using the industrial relations Systems framework.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in the Future. Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade," by Michael Poole, William Brown, Jill Rubery, Keith Sisson, Roger Tarling & Frank Wilkinson.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in Europe. The Imperatives of Change," by B.C. Roberts, Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek & Marino Regini. This article reviews the book, "Economic Crisis. Trade Unions and the State," by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek & Marino Regini.
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The author attempts to improve upon a certain number of collective bargaining coverage estimates mainly by reviewing union membership data in Canada.
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Despite the statute which the field of industrial relations has achieved, many essential issues regarding its nature and purpose continue to be controversial. There has emerged no universally accepted definition of the term industrial relations. The author at-tempts to demonstrate that the failure is the result of underlying conceptual structure of the field.
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Some of the most highly developed tripartite Systems have been established in the Scandinavian countries, in Holland and in Belgium. The difficulties in implementing such a System in Canada are examined.
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A Commission of Inquiry on Educational Leave and Productivity recommended the establishment of a training levy scheme in Canada. In this paper the author discusses why such a scheme is necessary, how it might work, what it might cost, and what it would accomplish.
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This exploratory survey aims at presenting some of the characteristics of full-time union field officers.
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In this article, the "solidarity" argument is questioned on both theoretical and empirical grounds. It is argued instead that the unionization differential between the two continents may be more adequately explained in terms of differences on key dimensions of the existing industrial relations systems.
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