Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 12 (Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations)

Volume 12 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers that deal with contemporary and historical aspects of unionism and other forms of union representation, union-management relations, union political activity, labor market regulation, and interpretations of selected leading labor scholars' writings about the evolution of welfare capitalism in the U.S. Four of these papers, by Daniel & Siebert. Borgers. Rubinstein, and Pereles, were winners of the 2002 AILR Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) ''best papers'' competition. 1.List of Contributors......Page 1 2.Introducion......Page 2 INTRODUCTION......Page 7 To the End of the First World War......Page 9 Company Unions in the 1920s......Page 10 The Contraction of the Early 1930s......Page 13 Company Unions under the NLRA......Page 15 The Activities of the Company Unions......Page 16 The Incidence of Company Unions......Page 17 Wages and Hours under Company Unionism......Page 19 THE MEANING OF THE POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN COMPANY UNIONISM AND WAGES......Page 24 Company Unions as Personnel Management......Page 25 Company Unions as Union Avoidance......Page 26 Company Unions as Employer Benevolence......Page 28 CONCLUSION......Page 29 REFERENCES......Page 35 APPENDIX......Page 37 LABOR MARKET REGULATION AND PRODUCTION WORKER HIRING STANDARDS: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS......Page 39 INTRODUCTION......Page 40 THE DETERMINANTS OF HIRING STANDARDS......Page 41 Labor Regulation......Page 42 Idiosyncratic Factors......Page 43 MEASURING EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION......Page 44 THE DATA......Page 49 RESULTS......Page 50 The Recruitment Process......Page 51 Regression Analysis......Page 55 Implications......Page 59 CONCLUSIONS......Page 61 REFERENCES......Page 63 Employment......Page 65 Belgium......Page 66 Regulation of Temporary Employment......Page 67 U.S.......Page 68 Unemployment......Page 70 School Leaving Age......Page 71 INTRODUCTION......Page 72 The Development of Boulwarism as a Bargaining Technique......Page 73 Exploitation of Cold War Divisions within the Labor Movement......Page 75 CORPORATE REORGANIZATION AND LABOR RELATIONS AT GE POST 1970......Page 79 CBC BARGAINING POST 1970......Page 84 THE CBC AND THE CORPORATE REORGANIZATION OF GE......Page 89 The CBC and Cold War Divisions Within U.S. Labor......Page 90 The Limitations of NLRA Bargaining......Page 91 The CBC and Internal Mobilization......Page 93 The CBC and External Mobilization......Page 97 CONCLUSION......Page 102 REFERENCES......Page 107 OVERVIEW OF GE AIRCRAFT ENGINES (GEAE), GE POWER SYSTEMS (GEPS), AND GE APPLIANCES GEA......Page 109 PARTNERSHIPS OF STEEL? FORGING HIGH INVOLVEMENT WORK SYSTEMS IN THE U.S. STEEL INDUSTRY: A VIEW FROM THE LOCAL UNIONS......Page 114 INTRODUCTION......Page 115 BACKGROUND......Page 116 Labor-Management Participation Teams......Page 117 NEW DIRECTIONS BARGAINING......Page 118 Cooperative Partnership Agreement......Page 119 DATA AND METHODS......Page 122 Structure......Page 123 Comparison of Locals with Successful and Unsuccessful CPA Experience......Page 125 Predicting CPA Results for Local Unions......Page 127 Managerial Resistance......Page 129 Local Union Resistance......Page 131 Training......Page 132 USWA International Support......Page 133 Comparison with LMPT......Page 135 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS......Page 138 REFERENCES......Page 140 Memorandum of Understanding on Labor-Management Participation Teams......Page 141 Contingent Workers in the United States......Page 144 Union Commitment......Page 147 Union Commitment......Page 149 Propositions......Page 150 Sample......Page 152 RESULTS AND ANALYSIS......Page 154 Significant Differences......Page 159 Union Loyalty......Page 161 Willingness to Work for the Union......Page 162 DISCUSSION......Page 163 REFERENCES......Page 167 INTRODUCTION......Page 171 BACKGROUND: LABOR'S STRATEGIC SHIFT TOWARD POLITICAL ACTION......Page 172 THEORY AND HYPOTHESES......Page 173 LITERATURE REVIEW......Page 174 RESEARCH DESIGN......Page 176 SURVEY DATA COLLECTION......Page 177 MEASURES......Page 178 Workplace Contact......Page 181 Awareness of Labor Endorsement......Page 182 Preference for the Endorsed Candidate......Page 183 Awareness of the Labor Endorsement......Page 184 Preference for the Endorsed Candidate......Page 185 Voting in the 2000 Election......Page 188 DISCUSSION AND LIMITATIONS......Page 189 REFERENCES......Page 193 INTRODUCTION......Page 195 THE OLD LABOR HISTORY AND THE NEW......Page 199 THE STEEL WORKERS AND STEELWORKERS IN AMERICA......Page 201 CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING......Page 208 BACK TO THE FUTURE......Page 212 REFERENCES......Page 218 INTRODUCTION......Page 221 LECTURE I......Page 224 LECTURE II......Page 230 LECTURE III......Page 236 LECTURE IV......Page 242 LECTURE VI (CONTINUED)......Page 244 LECTURE VII......Page 246 LECTURE VIII......Page 252 LECTURE IX......Page 259 REFERENCES......Page 266 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 labour historians differences with old labour historians, and newly discovered lecture notes by industrial relations scholar Sumner Slichter that detail his views on the early development of welfare capitalism in the US. These papers contain a vibrant mix of disciplinary perspectives, analytical methods, arguments and conclusions about key industrial relations topics - and do so from both contemporary and historical perspectives. The volume should be of interest to industrial relations scholars and students worldwide Volume 12 of this title contains eight papers that deal with contemporary and historical aspects of unionism and other forms of union and labour representation.