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We present some survey results on the preferences of workers for a coop as opposed to a private buy-out if faced with the closure of their workplace. Although there has been quite a lot of theoretical discussion of this issue there is relatively little empirical evidence. Although hedged about by reservations we conclude that the principal factor that determines preferences are the‘job risk’ characteristics of the coop and the privately owned firm. To a very large extent a worker will prefer the coop to a private buy-out if it leads to increased job security and if the coop is considered to be viable. We also find that workers expected that everyone would work harder in the coop and that this, together with increased shop floor control of production, was expected to lead to higher earnings. Significantly, however, these expected differences in the work/earnings trade-off between the coop and the privately owned firm did not lead workers to prefer one to the other.
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List of recent publications by the Committee.
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This cumulative index is the second supplement to the index published in v. 25, no. 4 of this journal, covering the journal contents and the conferences of the annual industrial relations' conference at Université Laval. The first index covered the period 1945-70 for the journal and 1946-70 for the conferences, i.e., since both were founded. A first supplement was published in v. 35, no. 4, covering the period 1971 to 1980 for the journal and the conferences.
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The article reviews the book "The Irish Labour Movement in the Nineteenth Century," by John W. Boyle.
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The article reviews the book, "The Bolsheviks and the Red Army," by Francesco Benvenuti.
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This article reviews the book, "Working Women: Past, Present, Future," by Karen Shallcross Koziara, Michael H. Moskow, and Lucretia Dewey Tanner.
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The article reviews the book, "For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League, 1906-1918," by Christine Collette.
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During the 19th century a longshoring tradition emerged out of the booming lumber trade in Saint John. Shiplabourers' organizations periodically vied with local merchants for control of the waterfront casual labour market. Work-bred feelings of mutualism were frequently undermined by job, ethnic, and religious segmentation. Despite the introduction of steamers, the longshore labour process remained relatively unchanged. The situation changed at the sum of the century as a result of the establishment of Saint John's winter-port facility. Big Capital confronted Big Labour in an all-out struggle for control of the docks. Aided by wartime conditions, the longshoremen finally succeeded in imposing new work-rules and exerting partial control over hiring practices. But after the Armistice, the shipping industry regained its previous authority, and hard-pressed Saint John longshoremen subsequently abandoned theft class-based efforts in favour of regional political nostrums.
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The article reviews the book "The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain," by F. M. L. Thompson.
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The article reviews the book, "From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980," by Lynn Y. Weiner.
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The article reviews the book, "Current Issues In Labour Relations: An International Perspective," by Alan Gladstone, Russell D. Lansbury, Tiziano Treu, Jack Stieber, and Manfred Weiss.