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Race, Gender, and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism
(2007-06-01)[Excerpt] Diversity is not the enemy of solidarity. We contend that solidarity can, and must, be built among an ever-diversifying labor movement, nation, and world. The labor movement's very survival depends on it. -
Railroad Brotherhoods
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] The traditional pattern of union organization in the railroad industry has been along multiple craft-union lines. As late as 1970 there were more than thirty separate unions representing the approximately 800,000 ... -
Raising Academic Standards and Vocational Concentrators: Are They Better Off Or Worse Off?
(2004-07-01)This paper measures the impacts of tougher graduation requirements on course taking patterns, learning, college attendance and post high school labor market outcomes for vocational concentrators and non-concentrators. Our ... -
Ralph Fasanella: Worker, Activist, Artist
(1985-10-01)[Excerpt] In his art, as in his life, Ralph Fasanella reminds us all of the complexity of our society and of the need for each generation to dedicate itself anew to the commitment of justice for all. That his work, ... -
Rank-and-File Participation in Organizing at Home and Abroad
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] We know that we need labor law reform. But it is also clear that this is not all we need; nor can we expect to achieve legal reform simply by electing Democrats. That strategy did not work in 1978-79 or in 1993-94, ... -
Rational and Coalition Models of Job Evaluation: Do More Powerful University Departments Have an Advantage?
(1995-06-01)Job evaluation research has, to date, focused on the individual as the unit of analysis. After approximately 50 years of study, evidence on the basic assumptions supporting job evaluation is still inconclusive. This study ... -
Raw Power: Plant-Closing Threats and the Threat to Union Organizing
(1997-03-01)Today, in the post-NAFTA climate of expanding trade agreements and skyrocketing levels of corporate migration, a majority of employers continue to make plant-closing threats during organizing campaigns. A recent study found ... -
Re-Conceptualizing the Economic Incorporation of Immigrants: A Comparison of the Mexican and Vietnamese
(2010-01-01)Using data from the 2000 5 per cent Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, this article advocates three shifts in our theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding immigrant economic incorporation. First, through ... -
Re-Examining Employee Participation Through the Lens of Stakeholder Management
(1999-08-01)This paper uses a stakeholder framework to examine the differential outcomes of participatory strategies for a stratified random sample of 1,191 middle managers, supervisors, and workers in a large service organization. ... -
Re-Planting a Field: International Labour Law for the Twenty-First Century
(2014-10-13)[Excerpt] In this talk I want to trace the development of the field and how international labour law has taken root in five areas: 1) trade legislation (namely, the US and EU Generalized System of Preferences), 2) trade ... -
Reaching for the Brass Ring: How the <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> Rankings Shape the Competitive Environment in U.S. Higher Education
(2001-05-01)[Excerpt] So institutions at all places in the selectivity game are thinking about their US News & World Report (USNWR) rankings. In the next section of the paper I will discuss the formula that USNWR used to compute its ... -
Reaching for the Brass Ring: The U.S. News & World Report Rankings and Competition
(2002-01-01)[Excerpt] The behavior of academic institutions, including the extent to which they collaborate on academic and nonacademic matters, is shaped by many factors. This paper focuses on one of these factors, the U.S. News & ... -
Reactions to Skill Assessment: The Forgotten Factor in Explaining Motivation to Learn
(2007-01-01)This study examined the effects of trainees’ reactions to skill assessment on their motivation to learn. A model was developed that suggests that two dimensions of trainees’ assessment reactions – distributive justice and ... -
Reasons for Employer Non-Participation in Manpower Training Programs for the Disadvantaged
(1971-11-01)On-the-job training has become one of the federal government's most current methods of aiding the disadvantaged worker. However, a major problem in implementation is the recruiting of employers who will take part in the ... -
Recent Developments in Employment Relations in the Philippines
(2001-06-01)We seek to describe recent developments in employment relations in the Philippines, placing these developments in the contexts of the distinctive elements of the Philippine social/political/industrial relations systems as ... -
Recent Trends in Funding for the Academic Humanities and Their Implications
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Never abundant, financial support for the “academic humanities” is now scarce. How scarce it is, both in absolute and relative terms, and whether the humanities now confront particularly hard times, are the ... -
Recent Trends in Funding for the Academic Humanities and Their Implications
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Never abundant, financial support for the "academic humanities" is now scarce. How scarce it is, both in absolute and relative terms, and whether the humanities now confront particularly hard times, are the ... -
Reciprocally Interlocking Boards of Directors and Executive Compensation
(1997-09-01)Is executive compensation influenced by the composition of the board of directors? About 8% of chief executive officers (CEOs) are reciprocally interlocked with another CEO—the current CEO of firm A serves as a director ... -
Recognizing Creative Leadership: Can Creative Idea Expression Negatively Relate to Perceptions of Leadership Potential?
(2010-01-01)Drawing on and extending prototype theories of creativity and leadership, we theorize that the expression of creative ideas may diminish judgments of leadership potential unless the charismatic leadership prototype is ... -
Recognizing Risk in Human Capital Investments: A Real Options Approach to Strategic Human Resource Management
(2000-11-01)An issue that has not yet been explored in the field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is that of managing the ‘risks’ involved in human capital management of the firm. We address this issue using the real ...
