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The article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining In Industrialised Market Economies: A Reappraisal," by John P. Windmuller.
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The article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Employment Relations," edited by Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury.
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This essay explores the current state of the field of Industrial Relations. The first part of the essay traces the emergence of IR out of the general concern with the 'labour question" to form a distinct field of study and research in the Angio-American countries. The second part argues that the field has been plagued by a profound crisis of relevance in the 1980s and 1990s, registered by a decline in its importance within universities, a shrinking of its academic associations, a loss of interest on the part of its traditional audience, increased isolation from other disciplines, and a theoretical incapacity to come to grips with the sweeping changes that have occurred in labour markets, the workplace, and the wider political economy. This situation is leading to a redefinition of the field as "Employment Relations." In the third part of the essay, this drift towards Employment Relations is criticized for moving the field more squarely into the area of managerial science, for leaving it incapable of analyzing future waves of collective mobilization, and for its continued adherence to a geographically and historically constricted conceptual foundation. A better strategy, it is suggested, would be to go beyond employment by reconceptualizing the field in terms of "work relations."
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This article reviews the book, "Willing Workers: The Work Ethics in Japan, England, and the United States," by Tamotsu Sengoku.
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This article reviews the book, "The Social Foundations of Industrial Power : A Comparison of France and Germany," by Marc Maurice, François Sellier & Jean-Jacques Silvestre. This article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Industrial Relations," by Greg J. Bamber & Russell D. Lansbury.
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This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Essential Services," by Gillian S. Morris.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations - A Textbook," by Michael P. Jackson.
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This article reviews the book, "Pensions Policy in Britain : A Socialist Analysis," by Eric Shragge.
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This article reviews the book, "Contradictions of the Welfare State," by Claus Offe, edited and introduced by John Keane.
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After having addressed the concept of tripartism and the issues of corporatism and incomes policies, the author examines the background to the imposition of controls and the subsequent tripartism debate. Finally, the author focuses on the main stages in the negociations over controls and tripartism, with particular reference to major shifts in CLC policy and strategy.
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In linking the discontinuities in the development of industrial relations theory in Canada with succeeding historical phases in the evolution of Canadian industrial relations, this article argues that an understanding of industrial relations theory must be historically grounded. It identifies four phases of theoretical development and suggests that the hold of Systems theory on the discipline should be understood as the product of a specific historical period which is now giving way to the emergence of new approaches.
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This paper examines recent developments in workers' participation in North America and Western Europe in order to explore the factors which promote or retard such developments.
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Since the early 1980s, the worldwide expansion of product and capital markets has been cited as one of the singlemost significant factors driving the transformation of economic and social relations, both in industrialized countries as well as in the developing countries. Much of this process of economic transformation has been generated as a result of the conjunction of a set of changes in several mutually reinforcing, yet endogenous, factors. Policy makers could once meaningfully refer to an industrial relations system as being defined primarily at the level of a national or sub-national government jurisdiction. While researchers and policy makers still refer to the notion of an industrial relations system, the process of internationalization has clearly begun to erode the relevance of this concept at least in the sense of its traditional meaning.
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The article examines the divergent patterns of labor flexibility in 2 Canadian power transformer plants owned by the same company and producing similar products with identical technologies. The case study results are used to point to 3 over-simplifications in the flexibility debate: 1. the claim that "numerical" and "functional" flexibility are incompatible, 2. the argument that North American management relies more heavily on external flexibility than on flexibility, and 3. the widespread contention that the traditional collective agreement is the chief barrier to achieving a more flexible organization of production in North America.
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Introduces the international colloquium co-sponsored by Laval University's Industrial Relations Centre and the Canadian Workplace Research Network held in September 1997.
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Présente le colloque international coparrainé par le Centre de relations industrielles de l'Université Laval et le Réseau canadien de recherche sur les milieux de travail qui s'est tenu en septembre 1997.
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