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The individual decision making of the Energy and Chemical Workers' Union rank and file members in their choice to support or oppose a 3-way merger with the Paperworkers' Union and the Communications and Electrical Workers' Union is examined. Two theories, one economic and one behavioral, are used to explain member voting preferences. Results demonstrate that both instrumental and image considerations need to be taken into account when predicting the outcome of a union merger vote.
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The article reviews the book, "Tous à l'école. État, communautés rurales et scolarisation au Québec de 1826 à 1859," by Andrée Dufour.
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In recent years, there has been a trend in many countries toward a decentralization of collective bargaining structures. Two methods are employed to provide a deeper analysis than previous studies of the forces that determine bargaining structure. First, a framework is built to analyze bargaining structure by integrating previous theoretical and empirical work on the topic. Second, the framework is applied to 4 bargaining unit level case studies in the US' pulp and paper industry. By examining the dissolution of 2 centralized bargaining structures and union attempts to reestablish centralization through ratification voting pools in 2 others, the relative importance of economic, tactical and organizational factors in the continued decentralization of US paper industry bargaining is revealed.
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The article reviews and comments on the following two books: Alan H. Jeeves and Jonathan Crush's "White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950" and Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler's "Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa."
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The article reviews the book, "Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, by Mark M. Smith.
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Far more attention has been paid to Walton & McKersie's (1965) distributive and integrative models of bargaining than to their strategies in a mixed bargaining situation; in particular the emphasis has been on developing cooperation in the form of the integrative or mutual gains approaches. A paper reexamines the mixed bargaining model and, drawing on a case study, identifies a number of features of negotiation which enable the parties to overcome the difficulties associated with the strategy. It is suggested that the mixed bargaining model is more appropriate in the industrial relations context than approaches which focus on cooperation.
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The article reviews the book, "Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957," by Penny M. Von Eschen.
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The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.
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The article reviews the book, "Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit," by Bob Hesketh.
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In this paper I challenge the prevailing theoretical framework [of study in industrial relations] that marginalizes women by examining how unpaid work on and off the job is and is not analyzed in the literature and by demonstrating its importance to issues as central to the discipline as wages, job allocation, and industrial conflict. In the section entitled, "Unpaid Work on the Job," I argue that the concept of the "effort bargain"— how unpaid work is currently studied in industrial relations — obscures pay discrimination against women because it is more likely to implicitly recognize as work the tasks associated with jobs traditionally performed by men than many of the tasks associated with jobs performed by women. Under the heading, "Unpaid Work in the Household," I argue that unpaid work in the home determines, in part, how paid work is allocated and, in particular, how the social construction of women as non-workers/wives and mothers by researchers naturalizes women's place in the secondary labour market and reifies men's access to "breadwinner jobs." Finally, I conclude by arguing that incorporating unpaid work into the study of industrial relations is necessary to move women from the margins to the centre of discourse. --From author's introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor," by Tom Zaniello.
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Workplace change in 2 subsidiaries of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation is examined. One affiliate is located in the UK, the other in South Africa. It is shown how variations in subsidiary relations with corporate headquarters reflect differences in the strategic power and resources of subsidiaries, as well as differences of a local nature. These differences are reflected in variations in the scope, pace, and content of workplace change.
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Interrogates the currents of scholarly inquiry into the Italian emigration of the 19th and 20th centuries. Argues for a woman-centred, gendered, and proletarian history of this diaspora, and suggests new areas of investigation.
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Cet article propose une conceptualisation de l’action syndicale à l’échelle des milieux de travail illustrée par le cas québécois.La construction du concept de logique représentative permet de cerner les fondements de l’action syndicale. Des résultatsd’enquêtes de terrain, menées principalement dans le secteur manufacturier, sont utilisés pour décrire les changements à l’oeuvredans le champ des relations du travail. La description des conséquences de ces changements et l’analyse subséquente conduisentà proposer que la logique représentative traditionnelle des syndicats est ébranlée et qu’à terme, c’est le sens de l’actionsyndicale qui en est altéré.
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The article reviews the book, "Management de la flexibilité," by Christophe Everaere.
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The article reviews the book, "Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940," by Mercedes Steedman.
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The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory ? Lean Production and its Discontents," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley and David Roberts.
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The article reviews the book, "After Marxism," by Ronald Aronson.
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The article reviews the book, "'We Are All Leaders': The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930's," edited by Staughton Lynd.
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This paper adopts a critical sociological approach to analyze how labor law shaped a 23-day strike at a western Canadian university in the fall of 1995. A chronology of the strike is provided, followed by a brief analysis of how both economic and sociological models contribute to understanding the rationale of the strike. The implications of specific labor laws for this rationale are discussed, with an extension of the critical legal studies tradition by an establishment of how legal biases against unions shape strike activity.
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