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Advances in industrial and labor relations.
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ISBN: 1280631465 9786610631469 0080456006 9780080456003 9780762311521 0762311525 1849503052 9781849503051 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam : Jai Press,

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Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) continues to receive high quality submitted manuscripts and to publish the best among these, as determined by double blind anonymous refereeing. Volume 13 of AILR contains eight papers dealing, respectively, with European responses to high unemployment rates; the effects of alternative types of staffing arrangements; the adoption and use of alternative dispute resolution procedures in the nonunion workplace; the implications of organizational ombuds arrangements for voice, conflict resolution and fairness at work; building and sustaining labor-management partnerships; union and employer tactics in Ontario, Canada organizing campaigns; the late 20th century campaign for U.S. striker replacement legislation; and the development over a quarter-century of Australian industrial relations thought. It is no accident that the research settings for the papers contained in this volume include North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. AILR has long encouraged manuscript submissions from researchers worldwide, and seeks to publish articles that expand theoretical and empirical industrial relations knowledge beyond that obtained from U.S. settings and data sources. Taken as a set, the eight papers contained in Volume 13 of AILR clearly reflect achievement of this objective.

Employment with a human face
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ISBN: 1501722387 9781501722387 0801442087 9780801442087 9780801472602 0801472601 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ithaca

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John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship as a purely economic transaction, with business wanting efficiency and workers wanting income, Budd argues that equity and voice are equally important objectives. The traditional narrow focus on efficiency must be balanced with employees' entitlement to fair treatment (equity) and the opportunity to have meaningful input into decisions (voice), he says. Only through a greater respect for these human concerns can broadly shared prosperity, respect for human dignity, and equal appreciation for the competing human rights of property and labor be achieved.Budd proposes a fresh set of objectives for modern democracies-efficiency, equity, and voice-and supports this new triad with an intellectual framework for analyzing employment institutions and practices. In the process, he draws on scholarship from industrial relations, law, political science, moral philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, and economics, and advances debates over free markets, globalization, human rights, and ethics. He applies his framework to important employment-related topics, such as workplace governance, the New Deal industrial relations system, comparative industrial relations, labor union strategies, and globalization. These analyses create a foundation for reforming employment practices, social norms, and public policies. In the book's final chapter, Budd advocates the creation of the field of human resources and industrial relations and explores the wider implications of this renewed conceptualization of industrial relations.

Varieties of unionism : strategies for union revitalization in a globalizing economy.
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ISBN: 0199270147 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

My way or the highway : the micromanagement survival guide
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ISBN: 1576752968 9786612298974 1282298976 1576758818 9781576758816 9781605098937 1605098930 9781576752968 9781282298972 6612298979 Year: 2004 Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers,

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Shows that micromanagement can be objectively identified and successfully resisted both by those who inflict it and by those who are its victims. This book describes five defining traits of micromanagers including: placing their own self interest above everything else; controlling and manipulating time; and requiring elaborate approval processes.

Labor contracts and labor relations in early modern central Japan
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ISBN: 1134281447 128011164X 0203010078 0415346053 041565534X Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge,

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Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages in central Japan.

Waterfront blues : labour strife at the Port of Montreal, 1960-1978
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ISBN: 1281992755 9786611992750 1442683252 9781442683259 9781281992758 0802089801 9780802089809 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Waterfront Blues is the story of the dramatic events surrounding the labour battles at the Port of Montreal in the 1960s and 70s. During that time, the prospect and reality of technological change poisoned labour relations, provoking a series of bitter strikes as well as repeated exercises in government intervention. It was not until 1978 that management and labour were able to negotiate a collective agreement without a work stoppage or government intervention. In this new study, Alexander Pathy probes deeply into the causes of this labour unrest and charts the efforts made by the parties concerned - management, labour, and government to resolve the crisis. It draws upon the author's own experiences as a management representative and key figure at the Port of Montreal, as well as extensive research into the records generated by all the parties involved. Exploring complicated issues of labour relations clearly and concisely, Waterfront Blues also boasts a fascinating cast of characters, including the colourful labour minister Bryce Mackasey; the shrewd shipping industry lawyer and future prime minister Brian Mulroney; the decisive and no-nonsense management spokesperson Arnie Masters; the fiery union leader Jean-Marc St-Onge; and the blunt, brutally effective mediator/arbitrator Judge Alan B. Gold.

The new structure of labor relations
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ISBN: 1501731432 9781501731433 0801441846 9780801441844 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ithaca [N.Y.]

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Tripartism-the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government-occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant to economic performance and policymaking. The essays in this volume reveal the falsity of that assumption.Contributors from eight industrialized countries (Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States) examine the changing nature of labor-management relations, with a particular focus on the role of tripartism and the decentralization of collective bargaining. Although nonexistent in the United States and on the decline in Japan and Australia, tripartism flourishes in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, expanding beyond traditional corporatist partners to include women's organizations, senior citizens, and other representatives of "civic society." The vibrancy of the coordinating mechanisms that help shape employment conditions and labor policy contradicts the traditional belief that an overpowering unilateral decentralizing shift is underway in labor-management interactions. The contributors show that these mechanisms are in fact increasing in the face of intensified pressures, promoting greater flexibility in work organization and working time.

Employment relations in non-union firms
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ISBN: 0415312469 020335480X 1280036753 0203694554 0429234694 1134382529 9780203694558 9780415312462 9781134382521 9781134382477 1134382472 9781134382514 1134382510 9780429234699 9781280036750 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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The precise relationship between an employee and employer is often ambiguous within complex organizational boundaries. This book re-evaluates the way employment relations are conceptualized and examines employment conditions in non-union organizations.The authors present a detailed analysis of the conditions and patterns of employment relations in both small and large non-union firms. They assess the impact of regulation, managerial ideology and market influences on employer strategies to avoid unionization. Using social and psychological exchange, the book concludes with an assessme

Unpicking gender : the social construction of gender in the Lancashire cotton weaving industry, 1880-1914
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ISBN: 0754609804 1351143662 9786611098421 1281098426 0754683680 9780754683681 9780754609803 9781281098429 9781351143660 6611098429 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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Investigating the radicalising effects of gender in the Lancashire cotton mills between 1880 and 1914, this provocative work challenges the received wisdom that women were passive victims of a sexually segregated workplace. Instead it brings to the fore the proactive efforts of female workers to secure workplace equality, the successes of which led them to question and challenge their assigned position in wider society.

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