New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment

Contents:

- PART 1 RETHINKING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

• Reconceptualizing industrial relations in a global, knowledge-driven economy (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld)
• The original industrial relations paradigm: foundation for revitalizing the field (Bruce E. Kaufman)
• A meta-paradigm for revitalizing industrial relations (John W. Budd)
• An institutional environments approach to industrial relations (John Godard)

- PART 2 RECONSTRUCTING INSTITUTIONS

• Social capital and the labor movement (David B. Lipsky and Ronald L. Seeber)
• Industrial relations and the law (William B. Gould IV)
• How industrial relations is marginalized in business schools: using institutional theory to examine our home base (Daphne Taras)
• Let a thousand journals bloom: the precarious landscape of labor and employment publishing (Immanuel Ness, Bruce Nissen and Charles J. Whalen)

PART 3 REENERGIZING PRACTICE

• Revitalizing industrial relations (Michael J. Piore)
• Varieties of capitalism and employment relations under globalization: evidence from the auto industry (Nick Wailes, Russell D. Lansbury and Jim Kitay)
• Evolving labor relations in the women’s apparel industry (Katie Quan)
• Immigrant workers and the new American labor movement (Kent Wong and Janna Shadduck-Hernández)

- CONCLUSION: the future of industrial relations, a.k.a. work and employment relations (Thomas A. Kochan)

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