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Vol 25: 2021:Perspectives on Work
Will COVID-19 change work? Yes. Will it transform the workplace? It depends. -
2012-2013 Perspectives on Work
Vol. 16 No. 1-2Perspectives on Work brings various workplace viewpoints into one place. Think of this as the "Cliff's Notes" for the large issues effecting LER. We may not agree on answers, we can facilitate civil discourse on how big trends impact everyone in very different ways. -
Annual Meeting Proceedings 1947 - present
Search all Proceedings using the 'Search' link in the menu above.In this section, you may browse by year. Clicking the "PDF" links for years 1947 through 2002 accesses the entire book (2 to 3 megabytes).Years 2003 to present are grouped by year and listed by paper title and primary author. -
The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations - Events Ideas And The IIRA
The initial impetus for this book was the desire of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) to provide an institutional history recording the contributions of the Association during the nearly four decades of its existence. However, as the author shows convincingly in this book, the origin and role of the liRA are part of a larger story of the globalization of industrial relations, whose roots were in the United Kingdom, evolved in the United States and then spread to continental Europe and other societies. A detailed and exhaustive phase-by-phase account of this evolutionary process is synthesized by the author, demonstrating the beginnings of industrial relations in the nineteenth century as a response to the Labour Problem, and recounting and explaining its later emergence as an academic and professional field.The book admirably presents the inspirational role of the International Labour Organization (ILO), right from its founding in 1919 to date, in mobilizing the expertise of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in the promotion of employment and labour values around the world. The author also demonstrates that the founding of the IIRA in 1966 complemented part of ILO's global campaign for a rights-based labour policy.Thus the story of the liRA and its symbiotic relationship with the ILO is embedded within the globalization of industrial relations. The book makes clear the enormous influence of the ILO in the promotion of industrial relations worldwide, notably in the developing countries, and provides a thorough analysis of its role in promoting fair labour practices and social justice in the world of work among the emerging democracies of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. As the book suggests, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that that without the ILO and the liRA, the spread of the field of industrial relations in these regions would not have attained its present significance. -
The Origins & Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (IR) developed as a distinct academic subject and field of study nearly three-quarters of a century ago. This book provides a historical survey of the origins and development of the field in the United States and an analysis of the factors that contributed both to the field's ascendancy in the decade after World War II and to its sharp decline in the 1980s.The book has three objectives. The first is to provide a detailed account of the intellectual history of the field of industrial relations, its relationship to personnel management (and related fields such as organizational behavior), and the historical development of the major institutions of industrial relations in American academe, including university degree programs and professional associations. The second objective is to assess the reasons for the marked decline in the field's intellectual and organizational for, tunes over the last two decades, a decline that has proceeded to the point that the continued existence of industrial relations programs at a number of universities is threatened. Finally, the third objective is to develop a strategy for change that will preserve and strengthen industrial relations as a field of study, if not in name then in intellectual spirit. -
Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal
The journal publishes comparative analysis articles on labor law, employment policy, labor economics, worker migration, and social security issues. Many articles focus on legal systems in developing countries or post-colonial nations with emerging or new legal systems.The target audience for the journal comprises academics, practicing attorneys, policy makers, students, workers and labor movement officials and activists. The journal's stated policy is to make the publication readable and of practical value to officials in developing countries.The journal is published quarterly by the University of Illinois College of Law and the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security. -
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January 2015) Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago