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Faculty Publications - International and Comparative Labor
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National Industrialization Strategies and Firm Level IR/HR Practices: Case Studies in Malaysia and Philippines
Kuruvilla, Sarosh (1994-04-01)[Excerpt] Any economy is characterized by several different patterns of industrial relations (IR)and human resource (HR) practices at the level of the workplace. Often, the patterns of IR/HR practices of firms differ based ... -
ILR Impact Brief - Sustainable Workforce Development: The Paths of Singapore and India
Kuruvilla, Sarosh (2006-03-01)Globalization compels developing economies to address workforce skill levels. Reliance on a low-skill, low-wage competitive advantage is perilous because countries with even less developed economies will inevitably undercut ... -
Constructing Transnational Solidarity: The Role of Campaign Governance
Sarkar, Santanu; Kuruvilla, Sarosh (John Wiley & Sons, 2020-03)Our inductive study of two transnational labour solidarity efforts focuses on the role of campaign governance. Specifically, we study contrasting campaign strategies, tactics and coalition structures in campaigns by two ... -
From Cautious Optimism to Renewed Pessimism: Labor Voice and Labor Scholarship in China
Kuruvilla, Sarosh (SAGE Publications, 2018-09-12)This introductory essay highlights the changing foci of labor scholarship during five distinct periods in the evolution of Chinese industrial relations. In so doing, the author argues that labor scholarship has oscillated ... -
The State, the Unions, and Collective Bargaining in China: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Liu, Mingwei; Kuruvilla, Sarosh (University of Illinois College of Law, 2017)[Excerpt] The rapid changes in Chinese employment relations make it difficult to pass judgement on which of the above viewpoints is more accurate. They both are. Our goal is to add nuance to the picture. We contend that ... -
Globalisation of Commodification: Legal Process Outsourcing and Indian Lawyers
Noronha, Ernesto; D'Cruz, Premilla; Kuruvilla, Sarosh (Routledge, 2016-03-09)Legal process outsourcing (LPO) refers to the contracting of legal work from regions where it is costly to perform, such as the US to areas where it can be performed at a significantly decreased cost. LPO has been made ... -
Stochastic Dominance in Mobility Analysis
Fields, Gary S.; Leary, Jesse B.; Ok, Efe A. (2002-01-01)This paper introduces a technique for mobility dominance and compares the degree of earnings mobility of men in the USA from 1970 to 1995. The highest mobility is found in the 1975–1980 or 1980–1985 periods. -
Still a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry
Doellgast, Virginia (2009-10-01)This paper examines recent changes in collective bargaining and employer strategies in the German telecommunications industry following market liberalization in the late 1990s. Germany’s distinctive co-determination and ... -
Social Partnership: An Organizing Concept for Industrial Relations Reform
Turner, Lowell (1994-06-01)[Excerpt] In this era of globalization and intensified world market competition, once stable relationships involving firms, unions and government have come under pressure everywhere. Here in the United States, a crisis of ... -
Social Partnership in Germany: Lessons for U.S. Labor and Management
Turner, Lowell (1993-01-01)German industrial relations in the postwar period have made a major contribution to German industrial success. The German system is rooted in the explicit recognition of well organized interests: strong, assertive employers ...