Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting

Table of Contents

 

Officers of the IRRA

Preface iii

Alphabetical List of Authors 367

IRRA Membership Information 369

 

I.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

 

Paula B. Voos, Presiding

 

Improving Policies and Approaches to Employment Relations:

Protecting Workers and Their Families from Economic

Insecurity John F. Burton, Jr. 1

 

II.

WORK AND OLDER AMERICANS

 

Lorraine Schmall, Presiding

 

Who Benefits from Increasing Contribution Limits for Defined

Contribution Plans? Howard Wial 12

 

Employment Policies to Increase the Labor Force Participation of

Older Workers Jeffrey S. Petersen 20

 

Discussion Susan J. Stabile 29

Discussion Robert J. Thornton 31

 

III.

WELFARE CAPITALISM IN THE UNITED STATES:

POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND POSSIBILITIES

 

Sanford Jacoby, Presiding

 

What Might Have Been: Earl Warren’s Alternative to Employer-

Based Health Insurance Daniel J. B. Mitchell 34

 

The Mind of the Mill Owner: Welfare Capitalism and Child Labor

in Southern Cotton Textiles Hugh D. Hindman 42

 

Ourselves: Welfare Capitalism in the Larkin Company, 1900–1939

Howard Stanger 50

 

Welfarism or Paternalism: Making Sense of S.D. Warren’s Path in

Its Nonunion Era, 1854–1967 Michael Hillard 59

 

Discussion Sanford M. Jacoby 67

Discussion Jonathan Rees 71

 

IV.

LABOR MARKETS, HUMAN RESOURCES, AND INTERNATIONAL

REFEREED PAPER

 

Morris Kleiner, Presiding

 

Networks That Matter: The Impact of Recruiting Source versus

Organizational Demography on Turnover

Mary E. Taber and Mary Elizabeth Correa 74

 

The Labor Market for Female Corporate Directors:

Changes in Board of Director Composition from 1998 to 2000

Todd Fister 85

 

The Link between the Stock Market and Retirement Income

Christian E. Weller 95

 

V.

UNION REVITALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

 

Ruth Milkman, Presiding

 

Union Revitalization through Political Action? Evidence from

Five Countries Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly 105

 

Structural Change and Union Transformation

Richard Hurd and Martin Behrens 113

 

Comparative Coalition Building and the Revitalization of the Labor

Movement

Carola Frege, Edmund Heery, and Lowell Turner 122

 

Twists and Turns of the High Road: Labor-Management

Partnerships and Union Strategy in the United States and Europe

Ian Greer 131

 

VI.

IS THERE A FUTURE FOR MANUFACTURING?

 

Eileen Appelbaum, Presiding

 

The Visible Hand of U.S. Deindustrialization Adam S. Hersh 141

 

The Stock Market Boom and Manufacturing Investment

Christian E. Weller 148

 

The Hidden Microlevel Crisis in U.S. Manufacturing

Neil Gladstein and Beth Almeida 156

 

VII.

ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION

OR INVOLVEMENT

 

Janice Bellace, Presiding

 

Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American

Workplace Charles J. Morris 165

 

A Competitive Market for Workplace Representation Services

Samuel Estreicher 177

 

VIII.

ADOPTION AND OPERATION OF HIGH-INVOLVEMENT WORK SYSTEMS

 

Larry Hunter, Presiding

 

Workplace Innovation and Union Status: Synergy or Strife?

Anil Verma and Tony Fang 189

 

IX.

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS

 

Robert E. McGarrah, Jr., Presiding

 

Serving the Medicaid and Medicare Populations: Nursing Labor

Market Dynamics Matthew Bodah, John Burkett, and Leonard Lardaro 199

 

Does Collaborative Bargaining Make a Difference in Nursing

Agreements? Karen Roberts and Catherine Lundy 206

 

Union-Management Negotiations over Nurse Staffing Issues in

Hospitals Benjamin Wolkinson and Victor Nichol 214

 

X.

LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

 

Rebecca Blank, Presiding

 

Collective Bargaining Institutions and Demographic Employment

Patterns Guiseppe Bertola, Francine D. Blau, and Lawrence M. Kahn 222

 

XI.

BUILDING HEALTH AND SAFETY INTO EMPLOYMENT

RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

 

John T. Dunlop, Presiding

 

Construction Site Regulation and OSHA Decentralization

Alison Morantz 232

 

Subcontracting and Injury Rates in Construction

Hamid Azari-Rad, Peter Philips, and Wendine Thompson-Dawson 240

 

The Risk of High Cholesterol among Construction Workers:

Employment Relations or Behavior? Norman J. Waitzman and Ken R. Smith 248

 

The Construction Industry and Uncompensated Health Care

C. Jeffrey Waddoups 256

 

XII.

LABOR STUDIES/LABOR UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

REFEREED PAPERS

 

Mary Ellen Shea, Presiding

 

Bargaining through Cooperation: The Impact of Labor Management Teams on

Steward Identity and Performance Robert Bruno 264

 

Short Circuiting Circuit City? Judicial Enforcement of Mandatory

Employment Arbitration Michael H. LeRoy and Peter Feuille 274

 

Union Organizing Commitment: Rhetoric and Reality

Jack Fiorito and Paul Jarley 283

 

Discussion Michael H. Belzer 294

Discussion Susan J. Stabile 296

 

XIII.

LABOR-MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIPS: U.S. AND U.K. COMPARISONS

 

Thomas Kochan, Presiding

 

Phoenix from the Ashes? Labor-Management Partnerships in Britain

Simon Deakin, Maria Hudson, Suzanne Konzelmann,

and Frank Wilkinson 299

 

XIV.

ECONOMETRIC CASE STUDIES ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND

ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

 

Edward Lazear, Presiding

 

Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource

Policies and Company Performance Douglas Kruse, et al. 307

 

XV.

POSTER SESSION

 

Stephen Havlovic, Presiding

 

Labor Market Flexibility and Poverty Dynamics

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Ricardo Serrano-Padial 318

 

The Relationship between Employee Involvement and Workplace

Dispute Resolution Alexander J.S. Colvin 318

 

Labor-Management Conflict and Industrial Accidents: Lessons

from the Airline Industry William L. Dougan and Stephen J. Havlovic 319

 

Effects of Joint Consultation Committee on Workers’ Union

Commitment: Evidence from Korea Yongjin Nho and Yong-Seung Park 319

 

New Voices at Work: Race and Gender Identity Caucuses in the

U.S. Labor Movement Ruben J. Garcia 320

 

Ramping Up the Organizational Learning Curve: The Impact of Gainsharing Suggestions

on Plant Performance Jeffrey B. Arthur and Christopher L. Huntley 320

 

Fairness, Risk Shifting, and the New Employment Contract: How Stakeholder Networks

Can Bring About Justice for Workers Harry J. Van Buren, III 321

 

Two-Tiered Employment in the Global Economy: The World

Maritime Industry Clifford B. Donn 321

 

The Survival of Gainsharing Plans: An Analysis of 1992–1999

Panel Data Dong-One Kim 322

 

Diversity in the Workplace Harry W. Holt, Jr. 322

 

Women in Men’s Occupations: Reconstructing New Gender Identity

Haejin Kim 323

 

Deauthorization and Decertification Elections: An Analysis and

Comparison of Trends Clyde J. Scott and Edwin W. Arnold 324

 

The Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Poverty

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak 324

 

Permanent versus Temporary Employment Contracts:

Determinants and Implications Cynthia L. Gramm and John F. Schnell 325

 

What Is European in the European Social Model? J. Boyd H. Black 325

 

Building a Better Future Through Mediation: Insights From a

Survey of FMCS Mediators Patrice Mareschal 326

 

XVI.

2002 IRRA BEST DISSERTATION COMPETITION

 

Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Cooperative and

Hierarchical Work Sites Elizabeth A. Hoffmann 327

 

XVII.

2002 IRRA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

 

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Comments

Neil Chamberlain 335

 

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Comments

George P. Shultz 336

 

XVIII.

IRRA ANNUAL REPORTS

Executive Board Meeting in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2002 341

Executive Board Meeting in Washington D.C., January 2, 2003 345

General Membership Meeting in Washington D.C., January 4, 2003 353

Annual Report for 2002 357