Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting

Table of Contents


 

Officers of the IRRA                             

Preface                          

Alphabetical List of Authors                   

IRRA Membership Information                  

 

I.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

John F. Burton, Jr., Presiding

 

IRRA: On-Line and On-Message

Magdalena Jacobsen     

 

II.
THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Robert Pleasure, Presiding

 

Rebuilding Market Share: Strategic Dilemmas and Institutional Realities in Market Recovery Efforts

David Weil       

 

III.
HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL SECTIONS REFEREED PAPERS
David Lewin, Presiding

 

The Effect of Employee Suggestions and Union Support on Plant Performance Under Gainsharing       

Jeffrey G. Arthur and Dong-One Kim

       

Estimating Returns to Managers from Employee Unionization       

Todd Fister       

 

Injured Workers and Lost Time: Do High-Performance Workplace Practices Make a Difference?

Karen S. Markel and Karen Roberts   

    

Discrimination in the Workplace: Perceptions and Responses of People with Disabilities   

Lisa Schur            

 

 

IV.
JOB SEARCH IN THE NEW ECONOMY: WHAT ARE WORKERS DOING AND WHO IS HELPING THEM?
Eileen Appelbaum, Presiding

 

Tracking Internal Labor Market Shifts in Four Industries      

Hal Salzman, Phillip Moss, and Chris Tilly              

 

V.
BARGAINING IN FLUX: LABOR AND MANAGEMENT RESPONDS TO A PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY
Michael Belzer, Presiding

 

Post-Strike Effects of Labor Conflict on Retail Consumers: Preliminary Evidence from the 1998 Northwest Airlines and General Motors Strikes       

Richard N. Block and Brian D. Silver        

 

Workers of the World Wide Web Unite!: The Newspaper Guild and Online Newspaper Ventures

Howard R. Stanger     

 

Instability and the Failure of Labor-Management Cooperation at S.D. Warren        Michael Hillard          

 

                                                                          

VI.
UNION AND MANAGEMENT COOPERATION AND APPROACHES TO MULTI-EMPLOYER PLANS
Wei Sun, Presiding

 

Health Care Cost and Quality: Prospects for Mutual Gains       

Stephen R. Sleigh           

 

Multi-employer Pension Plans and the Pension Coverage Problem    

Teresa Ghilarducci  

 

Defining Responsibility: Exploring Government's Role in Regulating Multi-Employer Arrangements       

Heather Grob  

     

Joint Labor-Management Apprenticeship Programs: The Issue of Access to Multi-Employer Training Programs in Chicago's Construction Industry  

Helena Worthen      

 

Discussion

Bruce Nissen          

 

VII.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (AA)/ EMPLOYMENT EQUITY (EE) POLICIES AND PROGRAMS IN THE U.S., CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA, THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES AND NETHERLANDS
John Lawler, Presiding

 

Contrasts and Contradictions in Employment Equity Practices in EU Countries John Wrench

  

The Challenge of Equality in Employment in South Africa       

Harish C. Jain               

 

Employment Equity in Canada and the U.S.       

Morley Gunderson, Douglas Hyatt, and Sara Slinn   

    

Discussion

Trevor Bain              

 

VIII.
ASSOCIATIONS, UNIONS, AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF PROFESSIONAL WORK

Gregory Woodhead, Presiding

 

Changes in Employment and Working Conditions Among Technical & Professional Workers

Danielle D. van Jaarsveld and Rosemary Batt

 

Professional Associations and Collective Bargaining: Motivations and Difficulties       

Matthew M. Bodah, M. Catherine Lundy, and Patrick P. McHugh   

 

Charting Their Own Future: Independent Organizing by Professional Workers  Richard W. Hurd and Elizabet Tenenholtz 

 

IX.
INCENTIVES IN THE PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT SECTORS:

DO HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKPLACE PRACTICES WORK?
Kathryn Shaw, Presiding

 

Teacher Performance Incentives, Collective Bargaining, and Student Outcomes

Randall W. Eberts, Kevin M. Hollenbeck, and Joe Stone

 

Local Union Political Competition and Bargaining Performance       

Morris M. Kleiner and Adam M. Pilarski   

 

X.
LABOR STUDIES/LABOR UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, DISPUTE RESOLUTION

AND LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW REFEREED PAPERS
Eileen Hoffman, Presiding

 

The NLRA’s “No-Man’s Land” in Partial and Intermittent Strikes: Research and Policy Implications       

Michael H. LeRoy  

 

The Evolving Intellectual Core of Industrial Relations

Paula B. Voos and Haejin Kim

 

Private Justice and Public Policy: Whose Voice Prevails in Arbitration?

Michael H. LeRoy and Peter Feuille

 

Discussion  

Bruce Nissen

 

XI.
UNION EXCLUSION IN THE U.S., U.K., AND WESTERN EUROPE
Sanford Jacoby, Presiding

 

Union Avoidance and Employer Hostility to Union Organizing in the UK 

Tony Dundon       

 

Employer Opposition to Union Recognition in Britain

Gregor Gall  

     

Discussion       

Sheldon Friedman      

 

XII.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRIVATIZATION

OF STATUTORY DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Arnold Zack, Presiding

 

Circuit City is to Workplace Justice as Voting in Florida is to Democracy 

John L. Zalusky   

 

XIII.

INVITED INTERNATIONAL

 

Trade Unions Under Bargained Corporatism: The Case of Ireland

Patrick Gunnigle and Michelle O’Sullivan   

 

XIV.
POSTER SESSION I
Stephen Havlovic, Presiding

 

Avoiding the Common Problems in the Boundaryless Career: The Role of Employability Obligations

Harry J. Van Buren III

 

The Effect of Interpersonal Trust on Union Member Commitment 

Robert C. Hoell     

        

The Work Incentive Provisions of the Social Security Disability Benefits and Beneficiaries' Return-To-Work       

Wei Chi and Dennis Ahlburg 

 

Voting in Local Union Officer Elections: A Model and Test

James E. Martin and Michael P. Sherman   

 

Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Sector: Different Wages and Different Workers?

Mary E. Taber

 

Information and Communications Technology Use in British Unions       

Jack Fiorito       

 

XV.
POSTER SESSION II
Stephen Havlovic, Presiding

 

The Beneficial Role of Union Involvement in Dispute Resolution Systems Design

Corinne Bendersky   

 

Labor Unions for Physicians: An Idea Whose Time is Coming? 

Wei-chiao Huang and Edwin W. Lai

 

Women and Community Coalitions in Industrial Disputes 

Karaleah Reichart

 

Determinants of Mediation Success: A Survey of FMCS Mediators

Patrice M. Mareschal

 

Collective Bargaining and Knowledge-Driven Work: A Preliminary Look 

Betty J. Barrett

 

Contributions of Tangible and Intangible Factors in Creating Social Capital: Do Unions Make a Difference?       

Shobha Ramanand, Michael L. Moore and John H. Schweitzer   

       

XVI.
IRRA ANNUAL REPORTS

 

Executive Board Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Executive Board Meeting in Atlanta                           

General Membership Meeting in Atlanta      

Audit Report for 2001                               


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