This article reports on a study of shopfloor `coping' behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major `World Class Manufacturing' (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More...

The authors examine cyclicality of strike frequency and incidence using Canadian data on strikes and contracts. Total strike frequency exhibits significant procyclicality, to which within-contract strikes contribute appreciably. Evidence is weaker for procyclical behavior of contract-expiry...

Some theories of strike activity suggest that the settlement probability of a strike depends on the number of workers involved in the strike. Additionally, much recent empirical research on strikes has been constrained by data availability to look only at strikes in large bargaining units. It is...

Empirical work on strikes has tended primarily to concern itself with the strike incidence, with the recurring finding that strikes occur procyclically. Less attendion has been paid to strike duration and the cyclical fluctuations it might display, although a variety of theoretical models have...