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Eileen Barkas Hoffman |
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II. |
| REFEREED PAPERS |
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| Robert Thornton, Presiding |
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| Kelly Williams-Whitt 8 |
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| The Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance |
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| Xuguang (Steve) Guo and John F. Burton Jr. 25 |
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| Discussion | |
Robert Thornton 38 |
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WORK-LIFE VOICE: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF EMPLOYEE VOICE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING TIME ARRANGEMENTS ACROSS COUNTRIES |
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| Rosemary Batt, Presiding |
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| Trade-offs on Flexible Working Hours at the Company Level: Case Studies from Denmark and the United States | |
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EMPLOYEE VOICE AND PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZATIONS: NEW APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES |
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| Paul Gollan, Presiding |
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| From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a Twenty-First-Century Context | |
| Rafael Gomez, Alex Bryson, and Paul Willman 51 |
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| Employee Voice and Mutual Gains | |
| David Lewin 61 |
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REBUILDING AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL REGIONS |
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| Frank Giarratani, Presiding |
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| The Changing Industrial Composition of Manufacturing-Based Regions, 1980–2005
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| Howard Wial 84 |
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| ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF ‘UNION ORGANIZING’ STRATEGIES IN UNION REVITALIZATION PROJECTS IN AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES |
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| William Cooke, Presiding |
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| Union Organizing and Union Revitalization in the United States |
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| Jack Fiorito and Paul Jarley 92 |
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| The Prospects for Union Renewal in Canada | |
Joseph B. Rose 101 |
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| Assessing Union Organizing in the United Kingdom: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place | |
Miguel Martinez Lucio and Mark Stuart 108 |
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| Discussion | |
Gregor Gall 115 |
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| UNION ORGANIZING AND CHANGING EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN GLOBALIZING CHINA |
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| Sarosh Kuruvilla, Presiding |
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| Richard Locke and Fei Qin 119 |
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INSTITUTIONS, WORK ORGANIZATION, JOB QUALITY, AND WORKER OUTCOMES IN RETAIL IN THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE |
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| Robert Thornton, Presiding |
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| How Institutions Affect Job Quality: Sales Jobs in Comparison | |
| Dorothea Voss-Dahm, Geoff Mason, and Matthew Osborne 127 |
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| Job Satisfaction in a Low-Wage, Low-Status Industry: The Case of Danish Food Retailing | |
Lars Esbjerg, Klaus G. Grunert and Nuka Buck 133 |
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| REGULATING OCCUPATIONS |
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| Kathryn Shaw, Presiding |
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| Taking Too Much Off the Top? The Effects of State Licensing on Barbers’ Earnings | |
| Edward J. Timmons and Robert J. Thornton 141 |
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| THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT OF LABOR LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT |
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| Alex Colvin, Presiding |
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| Mark Anner 149 |
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| Convergence of Labor Law in the Anglo-American Countries | |
Alexander Colvin and Owen Darbishire 157 |
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| REFEREED PAPERS |
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| Gordon Pavy, Presiding |
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| Mallika Banerjee and Pamela S. Tolbert 166 |
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| Layoffs in Structural-Historical Perspective | |
| John C. Dencker 182 |
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LERA POSTER SESSION |
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Robert Hoell, Presiding |
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| Richard Opland, Kyoko Kato, Michael Moore and Mingzhu Nie 200 |
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| Employee Awareness and Perceptions Surrounding Workplace Violence Policies | |
| Jack L. Howard 201 |
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| Raid Elections Revisited | |
Edwin Arnold and Clyde Scott 201 |
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| Perceptions Regarding Alternative Forms of Variable Pay | |
Timothy J. Keaveny, Edward J. Inderrieden and Bonnie S. O’Neill 202 |
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| Theorizing Labor Rights Compliance: A Comparative Case Study in Central America and the Dominican Republic | |
Diane F. Frey 202 |
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| Sixty Years of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: 1947 to 2007 | |
Jerome Barrett 203 |
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| The “Lumpiness” of Grievance Arbitration Decision Making | |
Rafael Gely and Timothy D. Chandler 204 |
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| Employee Voice and Organizational Performance | |
Jaewon Kim, John Paul MacDuffie, Frits Pil 205 |
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| Statutory Union Recognition Provisions as Stimulants to Employer Anti-Unionism: The Cases of Britain and the United States | |
Gregor Gall 206 |
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| “I’m Out of Here”: Factors Associated with Quit Behavior in the Canadian Trucking Industry | |
Terry H. Wagar 207 |
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| The Soul of the Service Economy: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 1929–1994 | |
Bethany Moreton 208 |
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| Organizing the Organized: Structural Change, Organizing Strategies, and Member Participation in a Union Local of Service Workers | |
Laura Ariovich 214 |
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| LERA
ANNUAL REPORTS |
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| General Membership Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 5, 2008 | |
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