Advances in Industrial And Labor Relations

by Lewin; Kaufman

• ISBN13: 9780762312658
• ISBN10: 0762312653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

Volume 15 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. Six of the papers were originally presented in??Best Papers??? sessions at the 57th and 58th annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). In keeping with AILR??'s global perspective and global sourcing of leading research, the studies contained in these papers draw on data from the United Kingdom, France, Asia, Canada and the United States.*Contains 10 papers that address human resource management and unionization*Global perspective with data from the UK, France, Asia, Canada, and the US*Six of the 10 papers were "Best Papers' from the 57th and 58th annual meetings of the LERA

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
David Lewin
Bruce E. Kaufman
H.R. Versus Finance: Who Controls Corporate Health Care Decisions and Does It Matter?	1	(32)
Forrest Briscoe
James Maxwell
Peter Temin
Toward a Theory of Workplace Conflict: The Case of U.S. Municipal Collective Bargaining	33	(34)
Robert Hebdon
Creative Compliance in Labour Relations: `Turning the Law on its Head'	67	(34)
Amanda Pyman
Do the Organizing Means Determine the Bargaining Ends?	101	(26)
Lisa Jordan
Robert Bruno
The Failure of Labor-Management Cooperation at Two Maine Paper Mills: A Case Study	127	(46)
Michael G. Hillard
Representative Voice: The Interplay Between Non-Union and Union Representation Arrangements at Eurotunnel	173	(38)
Paul J. Gollan
The Industrial Relations Field in France: Complex Past and Challenging Prospects	211	(28)
Isabel da Costa
The Industrial Relations Field in Germany: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis	239	(40)
Berndt Keller
The Development of the Industrial Relations Field in Korea	279	(22)
Young-Myon Lee
Michael Byungnam Lee
Industrial Relations as a Field in Australia: The Implications of a Decentralized Labor Market	301
Russell D. Lansbury
Grant Michelson