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This landmark volume chronicles the history and practice of industrial relations to date. It focuses on the largely untold story of how the globalization of industrial relations took hold and explores in depth the pivotal events, idea, and people behind it. For the most part, the roots of industrial relations field are found in the United Kingdom and North America, and this volume takes a substantive look at the field and practice that develop...

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One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff

Examines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues.

These essays examine the evolution of the philosophy and practice of human resource management and industrial relations over the 20th century. Explored are key trends and issues facing global companies in such areas as equal opportunity, compensation practices and expatriation programs.

This volume presents five studies on key dimensions of union-management relations. Topics examined include union representation, financial consequences of unionism, wage determination, workplace innovation and conflict resolution in unionized enterprises in North America. In addition, the volume features four papers that examine university degree programmes in human resource management and industrial relations and, in particular, the extent to...

Contains eight papers dealing 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, building and sustaining labor-management partnerships, and other aspects.

Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has to date remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This pioneering volume helps close the theory gap by presenting contributions...

This volume contains papers dealing with topics such as the effects of company unions on wages, the effects of labour market regulation on hiring standards, coalition bargaining at General Electric, cooperative labour-management partnerships in the steel industry, the union commitment of adjunct faculty, the effects of union political outreach on union members political perceptions, preferences and voting behaviour, reinterpretation of "new" l...

Contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. This work presents a global perspective with data from the UK, France, Asia, Canada, and the US.

Contains 10 papers dealing with HR versus finance in the control of corporate health care decisions, a theory of workplace conflict grounded in US municipal bargaining, creative compliance in, or union defiance of, labor regulation in Australia, and more. This title is for industrial relations and human resource scholars and practitioners.

This volume discusses such topics as where we stand in industrial relations and human resources, critical junctures in the transformation of industrial relations systems, and successor unions and the evolution of industrial relations in former Communist countries.

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Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Senior Associate of the W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University. He is the author most recently of The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations and coeditor of What Do Unions Do?: A Twenty Year Perspective. He is the editor of Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship, also from Cornell.

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Continuing to provide forward-thinking industrial relations research, Volume 11 of "Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations" (AILR) features studies of EEOC and FMCS mediation approaches and effectiveness, union organizing, political effectiveness and internal democracy, the effects of broad-based stock option plans on the performance of unionized and non-union companies, and 21st century prospects for a new baby boom generation, employee-d...

One of the best-known books written on labor unions, "What Do Unions Do?" was first published in 1984. This volume represents a retrospective and evaluation of "What Do Unions Do?" It is a state-of-the-art survey by internationally recognized experts on the effects and future of labor unions.

Presents a rich mix of different approaches in industrial relations scholarship covering labor history, theory, quantitative and qualitative analysis. This volume includes a range of papers that potentially has significant implications for labour research and policy.