The other chapters in this volume examine likely trends and changes in the various institutions, practices and outcomes that comprise the field of employment relations (ER). For the most part, they are empirical-based. To complement them, in this chapter I provide an overview of several...

Comparative employment relations (CER) has enjoyed a resurgence of interest and scholarly research in recent years. A significant reason is the rising tide of globalization and its present and future impact on employment relations institutions and practices. Rather quickly the furthest corners...

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) continues to receive high quality submitted manuscripts and to publish the best among these, as determined by double blind anonymous refereeing. Volume 13 of AILR contains eight papers dealing, respectively, with European responses to high...

Continuing to provide forward-thinking industrial relations research, Volume 11 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) features studies of EEOC and FMCS mediation approaches and effectiveness; union organizing, political effectiveness and internal democracy; the effects of...

Volume 15 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. Six of the papers were originally presented in Best Papers sessions at the 57th and 58th annual meetings of the Labor and...

H.R. versus finance : who controls corporate health care decisions and does it matter? / Forrest Briscoe, James Maxwell, Peter Temin -- Do the organizing means determine the bargaining ends? / Lisa Jordan, Robert Bruno -- The failure of labor-management cooperation at two Maine paper mills : a...