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AbstractIndustrial relations systems differ across countries, yet their outputs converge. Canada and the USA are a striking example. Over the past two decades, private and public membership and density, employer opposition, and bargaining have converged. These findings contradict the conventional wisdom and invalidate the recommendation that the USA emulate Canadian policy.

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00762.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAlthough recent studies have demonstrated that union workers value job security, little research exists about what causes these perceptions and how unions might affect them. In this study, a job insecurity measure is developed and analysed using a sample of union members. The results indicate that the relationships between union variables and individual perceptions of insecurity depend on the organizational level at which threats occur (e.g. arbitrary supervision or organizational decline). Furthermore, for higher source‐level threats, union members are often sensitive to the wage‐employment trade‐off in that, if they perceive their union to effectively raise wages, they have higher levels of job insecurity. However, work rules do not appear to have much effect on reducing job insecurity percep

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00763.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn the present debate about options for the modernization of trade unions, the predominant argument being propounded is that trade unions and workers' representatives at plant level should take more ‘responsibility’ for the competitiveness of the firms. Among other things, they are advised to enter into ‘alliances’ with management at the level of qualification politics. This paper considers some important collective bargaining arrangements which the German trade unions have negotiated over the last few years in order to improve mutually beneficial further training decisions within German firms. The emphasis is on the potential of different agreements for achieving efficiency and equality objectives in the context of contemporary changes in production and restructuring pr

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00764.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractBy the late 1970s, supply‐side theory had become something of a new economic orthodoxy. From the supply‐side perspective, labour market inflexibility explains mass unemployment. In this context the presumably greater flexibility of the labour market in the USA was seen as an explanation of its superior employment record relative to European economies. Unlike most European countries, Sweden, which is highly regulated, does reasonably well in employment terms. The authors conclude that the Swedish model has proved its value with regard to labour market policy, especially with regard to the duration of unemployment, and that the Swedish model still contains relevant characteristics for other European countries. Active labour market policy is a way out of the unemployment trap. The active labour market policy may serve as an alternative for deregulation in order to augment the flexibility of the labour mar

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00765.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper reviews a number of themes or subject areas in British industrial relations which attained a particular level of prominence in 1991. The leading themes covered are wage determination in the context of recession, public‐sector industrial relations, union recognition and derecognition developments, training, HRM competitive strategy and international joint ventures. Among the personal observations and comments made are that derecognition is far from being the most important indicator of management opposition to unions, that some criticisms of HRM are rather misplaced, and that the growth of international joint ventures warrants more attention from industrial relations researcher

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00766.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article traces the course of the 1989–90 ambulance dispute, reviews the unions' industrial, parliamentary and media strategies and evaluates the outcome. The decision by the ambulance unions to maintain an accident and emergency service throughout the dispute, to try to win public support and to use a single spokesperson were critical factors in determining the outcom

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00767.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article gives the NHS management's view of the 1989–90 ambulance dispute. It is a factual and objective account of events before, during and after the disput

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00768.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Book reviewed in this article:A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations, 2nd edn. by Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersieThe Quest for Productivity: A Case Study of Fawley after Flandersby Bruce AhlstrandTurbulence in the American Workplaceedited by Peter B. DoeringerThe New Owners: The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership in Public Companies and What It Means to American Businessby Joseph Blasi and Doulas LynnKruseDeming Management at Workby Mary WaltonDr Deming: The Man who Taught the Japanese about Qualityby Rafael AguayoManaging Mothers: Dual‐Earner Households after Maternity Leaveby Julia Brannen and Peter MossEmployment Disputes and the Third Partyby Pat LowryThe Future of Cowley: Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Rover Cowley Works Closure Proposals(Chair of Inquiry: Lord McCarthy of Headington)A Tale of Two Industries: The Contraction of Coal and Steel in the North of Englandby Huw Beynon, Ray Hudson and David SadlerThe Enemy Without: Policing and Class Consciousness in the Miners' Strikeby Penny GreenPeter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebelby George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumov

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00769.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-1080    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00770.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY