H.R. versus finance : who controls corporate health care decisions and does it matter? / Forrest Briscoe, James Maxwell, Peter Temin -- Do the organizing means determine the bargaining ends? / Lisa Jordan, Robert Bruno -- The failure of labor-management cooperation at two Maine paper mills : a...

The relative importance of psychological versus pecuniary approaches to establishing an ownership culture / Benjamin B. Dunford, Deidra J. Schleicher, Liang Zhu -- The effects of high-involvement work systems on employee and unionmanagement communication networks / Saul A. Rubinstein, Adrienne...

Introduction / David Lewin, Bruce E. Kaufman -- Partnerships of steel? : forging high involvement work systems in the U.S. steel industry : a view from the local unions / Saul A. Rubinstein -- The union commitment of adjunct faculty / Kathleen L. Pereles -- Shaping political preferences through...

This volume contains seven distinctive papers that explore important aspects of contemporary employment relationships. Some of the papers are more micro level in orientation, whereas others are more macro oriented. Some papers contain extensive quantitative analysis, while others feature deep...

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) continues to receive high quality submitted manuscripts and to publish the best among these, as determined by double blind anonymous refereeing. Volume 13 of AILR contains eight papers dealing, respectively, with European responses to high...

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...

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...