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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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Indexability of Ordinal Measures of Inequality
(1974-05-01)[Excerpt] The comparison of alternative patterns of family income distribution, as in most social welfare judgments, is a difficult and sometimes controversial subject. An ideal method for the design of an ordinal measurement ... -
Bringing Unions Back In: Labour and Left Governments in Latin America
(2013-04-01)In the 2000s an unprecedented wave of left-party victories in presidential elections swept across Latin America. Although scholars have studied variation among left regimes and how these regimes differ from neoliberal-era ... -
Trade and Labour Standards: A Review of the Issues
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] This is a paper by a labour economist for trade specialists. It is written at a time of hope tempered by fear. On the trade side, the hope is that the new World Trade Organisation will stimulate a better trading ... -
Stochastic Dominance in Mobility Analysis
(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.
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