Labor and Employment Relations Association
Perspectives on Work
Begun in 1997 as part of the Association's 50th Anniversary, Perspectives on Work magazine was created to look at the critical issues confronting workers and employers now and in the future. Founding editors included Thomas A. Kochan, Peter Cappelli, Walter J. Gershenfeld, Marlene Heyser, Magdalena Jacobsen and Hoyt Wheeler. In 2003, Charles J. Whalen was named editor and an Editorial Advisory Board of scholars and practitioners in the field of labor and employment relations was created. In 2009, Susan Cass assumed the editorship. Perspectives is published twice each year (June and December).
Perspectives Online Companion: In 2004, the first issue of Perspectives on Work Online Companion was posted at the LERA web site. The electronic publication featured mini-forums addressing timely issues of interest to the member community. Published each spring and fall, the Online Companion provides a complement to the print version of Perspectives.
Perspectives on Work: Vol. 15, 1-2
The summer 2011/winter 2012 issue of Perspectives on Work (Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2) is actually a double policy forum issue including June’s Policy Forum on Future of Public-Sector Unions as well as a Policy Forum on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. There is also a second Policy Forum, Changing Nature of Work internationally; and a progress report on the Employment Policy Research Network, LERA’s ambitious foray into a new online research-publication model. There are also features by former Secretary of Labor. W.J. "Bill" Usery Jr., "A Heart for People: Even in Negotiation"; and "Labor in China: Conflicts or Conflict Resolution" by Arnold Zack, an arbitrator and lecturer at the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard School of Law and a 2009 LERA Inaugural Practitioner Fellow. Reviews of two books complete the volume.
Members can read the issue in the Members' Library in PDF format. (You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Not a Member? Become one here!
Read Excerpts from Perspectives on Work (Volume 15.1-2):
Public Sector Relations: A System Struggling to Adjust to the FInancial Crisis
by Robert McKersie
Fiscal Crisis and the Future of Public Unions
by Barry Bluestone
The Globalization of Service Work: Comparative Institutional Perspectives on Call Centers
by Rose Batt
Perspectives on Work: Vol. 14, 1-2
The summer 2010/winter 2011 issue of Perspectives on Work (Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2) includes a Policy Forum on Restructuring and Public Policy in Europe. The issue also includes a Changing Nature of Work series of articles on Bullying at Work and Control and Monitoring at Work. You’ll find many timely and informative Features including “Ideas and Action” by former Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz. This double issue is rounded out with three book reviews.
Members can read the issue in the Members Library in PDF format. (You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Not a Member? Become one here!
Read Excerpts from Perspectives on Work (Volume 14.1-2):
Restructuring and Public Policy in “Social Europe”: An Overview
by Mark Stuart and Ian Greer
Electronic Monitoring and Control at Work
by Rosemary Batt
Ideas and Action
by George P. Shultz
Perspectives Winter 2004 Issue in PDF format, compliments of a grant from the GE Foundation. The issue features articles on Turbulence in Airlines and Aerospace, Work and Employment Relations in China, Workplace Bullying, a Policy Forum on Union Negotiated Work Rules and the Law, and a review of recent publications.
Select Perspectives articles are available to read online or as complimentary downloads in PDF format.
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