Study Of Labour Relations Research Articles

Systematic approach in the study of labor relations

The article discusses the application of a systematic approach to the study of labor relations. With the development of labor legislation, the tendency to expand the scope of contractual regulation of the labor process becomes apparent. This testifies to the inevitability of shifting the emphasis in regulating the relations of the employer and employee to local and individual levels. In such a situation, the application of a systematic approach to labor relations becomes necessary and relevant, as it allows the employer at the local level to avoid mistakes when using various legal instruments. The article notes that the study of labor relations from the perspective of a systematic approach allows the use of certain provisions of synergetics.

WORKING CLASS IN THE CURRENT SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES: RUSSIAN CONTEXT

For many years, the working class has been an object of interest for Russian sociology. In Soviet sociology, a lot of research has been devoted to workers and industrial sociology. The point of attention of sociologists moved towards the study of labor relations and the protest movement in enterprises in the 1990s. Then the workers stopped being in the center of attention of sociology, but now interest in the working class is returning. This article is a form of analytical reflection on the research agenda for the study of workers by Russian sociologists. The analysis is based on publications on the research of Russian workers in the leading Russian sociological journals. Workers are considered as a social and professional group that is in a status crisis as an archaic social class that lost in the course of market reforms and represents an obstacle to modernization. Russian authors point to the return of the significant role of industrial workers against the background of a focus on the technological breakthrough of the Russian economy. An analysis of publications also shows that in recent years, researchers have found it difficult to access enterprises to study workers in their work environment, which affects the understanding of the situation of industrial workers in Russia. Workers have become a popular and convenient object of study as a statistical artifact present in sociological data bases, but sometimes this data speaks little of the real situation of the industrial working class. The article emphasizes the growing interest of Russian sociologists to workers and new approaches to their study, including the biographical method and the included observation.

Методические аспекты изучения трудовых отношений в Российской Федерации

Методические аспекты изучения трудовых отношений в Российской Федерации

The study on the management of labor relations of teachers in private colleges and universities

With the promulgation and implementation of the labor contract law and the law on the promotion of private education, the study of labor relations, especially the discussion on the management of labor relations of private colleges and universities, has become a hot topic. As an important part of the main body of higher education in China, private colleges and universities are facing more and more fierce competition, and there are more and more problems facing teachers’ labor relations. How to solve the problems in the management of the labor relations of private university teachers and to construct a harmonious and stable labor relationship of private university teachers have become the key to the sustainable development of private colleges and universities. This paper puts forward feasible suggestions from three aspects: macro, meso and micro, so as to help private universities find reasonable solutions to problems.

Incidencia de las empresas multinacionales y representación sindical en países emergentes. El caso de sus filiales en Argentina

Por su poder económico y su importancia en las economías receptoras, las empresas multinacionales son capaces de imponer a través de sus filiales prácticas específicas hacia los sindicatos. Dada su relevancia en la estructura productiva argentina, con su análisis es posible comprender gran parte de las estrategias empresarias hacia los sindicatos. En este marco, el artículo se propone: i) determinar los niveles de penetración sindicales en las EMN instaladas en Argentina, y ii) establecer relaciones entre esos niveles de penetración y diferentes factores que permitan explicar la existencia de lógicas de representación diferenciales. Así, mientras que los aspectos estructurales condicionan los niveles de penetración alcanzados, las características de la gestión de la fuerza de trabajo tienen un impacto más limitado.

Labor geography and labor history: insights and outcomes from a decade of cross-disciplinary dialogue

An enhanced dialogue between history and geography concerning the study of labor relations offers prospects for deeper insights and richer explanatory capacity in academic scholarship. Similar interdisciplinary activity linking labor geography and studies of labor relations has been underway for some time. In this paper, we identify problems that arise when geography remains implicit in the study of labor history. Building on work already conducted which synthesizes labor geography and labor relations, we outline what can be gained from a more explicit engagement between labor history and labor geography. We argue that the three disciplines – labor history, labor geography and labor relations – can work together in ways that are productive for all to enhance understanding of the social relations of the world of work. Finally, we detail some of the essays in a recently published collection – The Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space – that was designed to bring geographers and labor relations scholars into closer dialogue and suggest that this might serve as a model for a closer dialogue between historians and geographers.

The Evolution of Doctoral Research Programmes: The Italian Case of the Doctorate in Labour Relations

This paper provides an overview of recent trends in doctoral research programmes, with a particular focus on the Ph.D. programme in labour relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In the Italian context, in spite of a steady increase in the number of Universities, faculties and students, state funding has been subject to downward pressure in recent years, giving rise to the need to seek alternative sources of funding. Another significant environmental pressure examined in the paper is the emerging demand for applied research, resulting in a change in emphasis from philosophical programmes, with a focus on fundamental research, to professional programmes that provide greater scope for applied research, known in Italy as Executive Ph.D.s. Funding for such programmes may be allocated by private sector companies and public bodies, and at times the professionals taking part provide their own funding. In conclusion, the paper examines the methodological problem that the doctoral research school at the Marco Biagi Foundation has started to address in its own programme, making the transition to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the study of labour relations.

Teaching Labor Relations With Norma Rae

Undergraduate business students in North America are often unfamiliar with the labor organizing process and frequently fail to identify with the reasons why workers join unions. This article suggests a discussion exercise based on the 1979 film, Norma Rae, by 20th Century Fox, as an effective tool for familiarizing students with fundamental topics in labor relations such as the union organizing process, union avoidance strategies, and unfair labor practices. In addition, the film and the discussion-based exercise can be used to help students further explore the sources of individual attitudes toward unions, union instrumentality perceptions, union voting intentions, and contemporary issues in private sector labor relations. Collected data show positive responses from students who viewed the movie and participated in the discussion-based exercise. Suggestions are offered for using the film and the discussion-based exercise in the classroom to engage students in the study of labor relations.

Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia: A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c. 1900–1940. Edited by Vincent J. H. Houben and J. Thomas Lindblad. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. xv, 268 pp. €39.00 (paper).

Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia: A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c. 1900–1940. Edited by Vincent J. H. Houben and J. Thomas Lindblad. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. xv, 268 pp. €39.00 (paper).

Debt Peonage in Granada, Nicaragua, 1870–1930: Labor in a Noncapitalist Transition

The rise of coffee cultivation was a watershed in Nicaraguan history. Prior to the 1880s, most land was common property; thereafter, land in coffee districts was privately owned. Before coffee, peasants labored largely in household and communal production; afterward, many rural Nicaraguans worked on coffee estates for several months out of the year. In the past, historians viewed this revolution in land and labor as Nicaragua's capitalist transition. Notwithstanding major disagreements about how capitalism developed, they agreed that land privatization dispossessed the peasantry and promoted the spread of free wage labor. This interpretation fit the prevailing Central American historiography: namely, that the coffee boom was the region's great capitalist transformation. In the 1990s, Central American historians overturned part of this orthodoxy by demonstrating that the expansion of coffee cultivation did not separate most peasants from the land. However, on the dual issue of wage labor and the rise of capitalism, the earlier consensus largely retained its hold. For Nicaragua, there is mounting evidence that between 1870 and 1930 the production regime on coffee plantations was not a capitalist one. Recently, Jeffrey Gould argued that free labor did not prevail in the highlands coffee zone. My study of labor relations in Diriomo, a municipality in the department of Granada, reaches similar conclusions. In the southern coffee zone, debt peonage was a largely coercive production regime, more dissimilar than similar to free wage labor. This history of upheaval in the countryside is told largely by the men and women of Diriomo. The words of peons, planters, and local officials who lived a century ago have survived in court records, official correspondence, estate papers, and the mountain of paperwork generated by Nicaragua's forced-labor regime. Alongside voices from generations past are contemporary Diriomenos' stories, handed down from the epoch of the great coffee boom to the present day. Their memories come from the oral histories I collected in the pueblo in the 1990s. The great diversity of voices, past and present, vividly describes the everyday lives of peasants, planters, and politicians who willingly and unwillingly found themselves drawn into the fabric of Nicaragua's debt peonage regime.

Power Dynamics between Administrators and Faculty on a Unionized Campus: A Case Study

This article offers a case study of labor relations in a higher education setting. The University of Bridgeport's faculty union was certified in May 1973 and decertified in August 1992. Contract negotiation disputes centered on shared governance, managing faculty reductions during a time of inflation and declining enrollments, and determining fair wages. The private university experienced four faculty strikes, culminating in a two-year faculty strike – the longest in U.S. higher education history. The university was also the first institution of higher education in the United States to hire permanent replacement faculty during a strike. In 1990, leaders of the locked-out striking faculty unsuccessfully lobbied for a state government takeover of the nearly bankrupt university. The case study highlights a plethora of complex ethical issues faced by administrators, faculty, and unions during times of economic decline.

Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory

This book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Born in rural Korea, these workers confronted both the colonial experience and the modern workplace as they interacted with Japanese managers and workers. Based on the archives of the Onoda Cement Factory and interviews with surviving workers, this work analyzes the complex relationship between colonialism and modernization.

Industrial Relations and the New Orthodoxy?: A Comparison of Irish and US Manufacturing Companies

The prolonged economic crisis in Ireland of the 1950s forced a reassessment of national economic policy, a move towards Free Trade and the adoption of an outward looking policy initiated by a strategy of ‘industrialisation by invitation’ (O'Malley, 1989). To attract foreign companies the Irish government provided grant aid to firms establishing in Ireland and the profits of export oriented industry were exempt from tax for 15 years (Daly, 1981). By the mid 1990s Ireland had apparently been transformed into a modern industrial state but indigenous industry had contributed little to industrial expansion or employment. Foreign Multinational Corporations (MNCs) accounted for 41% of manufacturing employment with over three quarters of that employment being in firms which had started up since the 1950s. While research on the impact of MNCs on the Irish economy focused mainly on employment creation the study of labour relations in such firms received much less attention. Two articles published in the mid 80s attempted to remedy this neglect (Enderwick, 1986; Kelly & Brannick, 1985).

Book Reviews: Christine Edwards and Edmund Heery (with Margaret Bird): Management Control and Union Power. A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining 1969, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 276 pages

Book Reviews: Christine Edwards and Edmund Heery (with Margaret Bird): Management Control and Union Power. A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining 1969, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 276 pages

Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining.

Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining.

Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining

Book Review: Labor-Management Relations: Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal-Mining

Management control and union power: a study of labour relations in coal-mining

Part 1 The control of work: the day-wage system reliance on incentives. Part 2 The control of local pay-bargaining: the reform of industrial relations reformed industrial relations in practice. Part 3 Workplace trade-unionism and the control of labour: the bureaucratization of the rank and file the interests of the workplace leadership. Part 4 Trade union power in the workplace: at the frontier of control - the power of the NUM in collieries union power in the workplace - determinants and consequences. Part 5 National industrial relations: the return to decline - national industrial relations in coal mining 1974-1985 the post-strike settlement - industrial relations in coal mining 1985-1987. Appendices: the decision list used in the power measure the interview schedule used for the power measure.

Workers, Industrialists, and Mensheviks: Labor Relations and the Question of Power in the Early Stages of the Russian Revolution

One of the stereotypes concerning the Menshevik Party in the revolution of 1917 is that its leaders consistently followed policies that were out of step with existing social relations and the evolving sentiments of the party's working-class constituency. According to this widely-held view, Menshevik strategies-which were essentially directed toward the prevention of sharp conflict in Russian society-ran counter to a process of social polarization that had already begun to unfold on the morrow of the February victory, a process that was evinced in an immediate aggravation of labor relations and a corresponding emergence of workers' radicalism. In addition, the Mensheviks are often blamed for having contributed to the very polarization that they feared, when they sponsored the political arrangement known as dual power. This arrangement is described in the literature either as an evasion of all political responsibility by the Menshevik leaders of the Petrograd Soviet or else as a form of cooperation between the soviet and the Provisional Government, and thus a precursor of the coalition that would be established two months later, in early May 1917. This essay will examine the policies pursued by the Menshevik leaders of the soviet during the early months of the revolution to determine how well these policies corresponded to social reality and the extent to which they contributed to the heightening or lessening of social and political strife. This examination will begin with a study of labor relations as they developed in Petrograd during March and April.1

Chinese Labour under British Rule: A Critical Study of Labour Relations and Law in Hong Kong.

Chinese Labour under British Rule: A Critical Study of Labour Relations and Law in Hong Kong.

Chinese Labour Under British Rule. A Critical Study of Labour Relations and Law in Hongkong.

Chinese Labour Under British Rule. A Critical Study of Labour Relations and Law in Hongkong.