The Industrial Relations Research Association    
Proceedings 2003    

   

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CONTENTS

Preface     iii
I.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Paula B. Voos, Presiding
Improving Policies and Approaches to Employment Relations:
Protecting Workers and Their Families from Economic Insecurity
   
John F. Burton, Jr.     1
II.
WORK AND OLDER AMERICANS
Lorraine Schmall, Presiding

Who Benefits from Increasing Contribution Limits for Defined Contribution Plans?

Howard Wial     12
  Employment Policies to Increase the Labor Force Participation of Older Workers
 
Jeffrey S. Petersen     20
   
  Discussion
 
Susan J. Stabile     29
   
  Discussion
 
Robert J. Thornton     31
   
III.
WELFARE CAPITALISM IN THE UNITED STATES:
POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND POSSIBILITIES
Sanford Jacoby, Presiding
What Might Have Been: Earl Warren's Alternative to Employer-Based
Health Insurance
Daniel J. B. Mitchell     34
The Mind of the Mill Owner: Welfare Capitalism and Child Labor
in Southern Cotton Textiles
Hugh D. Hindman     42

Ourselves: Welfare Capitalism in the Larkin Company, 1900-1939

Howard Stanger     50
Welfarism or Paternalism: Making Sense of S.D. Warren's Path
in Its Nonunion Era, 1854-1967
Michael Hillard     59
  Discussion
 
Sanford M. Jacoby     67
   
  Discussion
 
Jonathan Rees     71
   
 
IV.
 
LABOR MARKETS, HUMAN RESOURCES, AND INTERNATIONAL REFEREED PAPER
 
Morris Kleiner, Presiding
  Networks That Matter: The Impact of Recruiting Source versus
Organizational Demography on Turnover
 
Mary E. Taber and Mary Elizabeth Correa     74
   
  The Labor Market for Female Corporate Directors:
Changes in Board of Director Composition from 1998 to 2000
 
Todd Fister     85
   
  The Link between the Stock Market and Retirement Income
 
Christian E. Weller     95
   
V.
UNION REVITALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Ruth Milkman, Presiding
Union Revitalization through Political Action? Evidence from
Five Countries
Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly     105
  Structural Change and Union Transformation
 
Richard Hurd and Martin Behrens     113
   
  Comparative Coalition Building and the Revitalization
of the Labor Movement
 
Carola Frege, Edmund Heery, and Lowell Turner     122
   
  Twists and Turns of the High Road: Labor-Management Partnerships and Union Strategy in the United States and Europe
 
Ian Greer     131
   
VI.

IS THERE A FUTURE FOR MANUFACTURING?

Eileen Appelbaum, Presiding

The Visible Hand of U.S. Deindustrialization

Adam S. Hersh     141

The Stock Market Boom and Manufacturing Investment

Christian E. Weller     148

The Hidden Microlevel Crisis in U.S. Manufacturing

Neil Gladstein and Beth Almeida     156
VII.

ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION
OR INVOLVEMENT

Janice Bellace, Presiding

Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American
Workplace

Charles J. Morris     165
A Competitive Market for Workplace Representation Services
Samuel Estreicher     177
VIII.
ADOPTION AND OPERATION OF HIGH-INVOLVEMENT
WORK SYSTEMS
Larry Hunter, Presiding
Workplace Innovation and Union Status: Synergy or Strife?
Anil Verma and Tony Fang     189
IX.

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Robert E. McGarrah, Jr., Presiding
Serving the Medicaid and Medicare Populations: Nursing Labor Market Dynamics

Matthew Bodah, John Burkett, and Leonard Lardaro     199

Does Collaborative Bargaining Make a Difference in Nursing Agreements?

Karen Roberts and Catherine Lundy     206
Union-Management Negotiations over Nurse Staffing Issues in Hospitals
 
Benjamin Wolkinson and Victor Nichol     214
   
X.

LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

Rebecca Blank, Presiding

Collective Bargaining Institutions and Demographic Employment
Patterns

Guiseppe Bertola, Francine D. Blau, and Lawrence M. Kahn     222
XI.
BUILDING HEALTH AND SAFETY INTO EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
John T. Dunlop, Presiding

Construction Site Regulation and OSHA Decentralization

Alison Morantz     232
Subcontracting and Injury Rates in Construction
Hamid Azari-Rad, Peter Philips, and Wendine Thompson-Dawson     240
The Risk of High Cholesterol among Construction Workers: Employment Relations or Behavior?
Norman J. Waitzman and Ken R. Smith     248
The Construction Industry and Uncompensated Health Care
 
C. Jeffrey Waddoups     256
   
XII.
LABOR STUDIES/LABOR UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW REFEREED PAPERS
Mary Ellen Shea, Presiding

Bargaining through Cooperation: The Impact of Labor Management Teams on Steward Identity and Performance

Robert Bruno     264
Short Circuiting Circuit City? Judicial Enforcement of Mandatory Employment Arbitration
 
Michael H. LeRoy and Peter Feuille     274
  Union Organizing Commitment: Rhetoric and Reality
 
Jack Fiorito and Paul Jarley     283
  Discussion
 
Michael H. Belzer     294
  Discussion
 
Susan J. Stabile     296
   
   
XIII.
LABOR-MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIPS: U.S. AND U.K.
COMPARISONS
 
Thomas Kochan, Presiding

Phoenix from the Ashes? Labor-Management Partnerships in Britain

Simon Deakin, Maria Hudson, Suzanne Konzelmann, and Frank Wilkinson     299
XIV.
ECONOMETRIC CASE STUDIES ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Edward Lazear, Presiding

Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource
Policies and Company Performance

Douglas Kruse, et al.     307
XV.
POSTER SESSION
Stephen Havlovic, Presiding

Labor Market Flexibility and Poverty Dynamics

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Ricardo Serrano-Padial     318

The Relationship between Employee Involvement and Workplace Dispute Resolution

Alexander J.S. Colvin     318
Labor-Management Confiict and Industrial Accidents: Lessons from the Airline Industry
William L. Dougan and Stephen J. Havlovic     319

Effects of Joint Consultation Committee on Workers' Union Commitment: Evidence from Korea

Yongjin Nho and Yong-Seung Park     319

New Voices at Work: Race and Gender Identity Caucuses in the U.S. Labor Movement

Ruben J. Garcia     320

Ramping Up the Organizational Learning Curve: The Impact of
Gainsharing Suggestions on Plant Performance

Jeffrey B. Arthur and Christopher L. Huntley     320
Fairness, Risk Shifting, and the New Employment Contract: How Stakeholder Networks Can Bring About Justice for Workers
 
Harry J. Van Buren, III     321
  Two-Tiered Employment in the Global Economy: The World Maritime Industry
 
Clifford B. Donn     321
  The Survival of Gainsharing Plans: An Analysis of 1992-1999 Panel Data
 
Dong-One Kim     322
  Diversity in the Workplace
 
Harry W. Holt, Jr.     322
  Women in Men's Occupations: Reconstructing New Gender Identity
 
Haejin Kim     323
  Deauthorization and Decertification Elections: An Analysis and
Comparison of Trends
 
Clyde J. Scott and Edwin W. Arnold     324
  The Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Poverty
 
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak     324
  Permanent versus Temporary Employment Contracts:
Determinants and Implications
 
Cynthia L. Gramm and John F. Schnell     325
  What Is European in the European Social Model?
 
J. Boyd H. Black     325
  Building a Better Future Through Mediation: Insights From a
Survey of FMCS Mediators
 
Patrice Mareschal     326
   
XVI.
2002 IRRA BEST DISSERTATION COMPETITION
  Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Cooperative and
Hierarchical Work Sites
 
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann     327
   
 
XVII.
 
2002 IRRA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
  Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Comments
 
Neil Chamberlain     335
  Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Comments
 
George P. Shultz     336
   
 
XVIII.
 
IRRA ANNUAL REPORTS
   
   
Executive Board Meeting in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2002     341
Executive Board Meeting in Washington D.C., January 2, 2003     345
General Membership Meeting in Washington D.C., January 4, 2003     353
Annual Report for 2002     357
   

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

   
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