The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

Bunker Professor of Industrial Relations Sloan School of Management Thomas A Kochan, Thomas A. Kochan, Harry Charles Katz, Robert B. McKersie, Professor of Collective Bargaining New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations Harry C Katz

Cornell University Press, 1994 - Political Science - 287 pages

Originally published in 1986, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations became an immediate classic, creating a new conceptual framework for understanding contemporary insutrial relations in the United States. In their introduction to the new edition, the authors assess the evolution of industrial relations and human resource practives, focusing particularly on the policy impoications of recent changes. They discuss the diverse forms of work restructuring in the American economy, the reasons why the diffusion of participatory work reorganization has been so modest, work practices among sophisticated nonunion employers, union membership declines, and public policy debates.

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This is a really good book to read when studying more about the Industrial Systems of AMERICA and it really is well developed from the historical view to the modern and current view of IR and explanation is very clear and I must say this could be a really useful tool for COMPARATIVE STUDIES about America to other countries in concern with its changing trends of IR. 

Contents

• A Strategic Choice Perspective: 3
• Collective Bargaining System: 21
• The Emergence of the Nonunion: 47
• Industrial Relations Systems at: 81
• Chapter 5 The Process and Results of Negotiations: 109
• Changing Workplace Industrial Relations: 146
• Union Engagement of Strategic Business: 178
• American Workers and Industrial: 206
• Notes: 254
• Index: 275

About the author

Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management. His previous books include After Lean Production and The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, also from Cornell. Harry C. Katz is Jack Sheinkman Professor and Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is coauthor of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations and Converging Divergences and coeditor of Rekindling the Movement, all from Cornell, among many other books. Robert McKersie is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the Sloan School.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Transformation of American Industrial Relations
• Authors: Bunker Professor of Industrial Relations Sloan School of Management Thomas A Kochan, Thomas A. Kochan, Harry Charles Katz, Robert B. McKersie, Professor of Collective Bargaining New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations Harry C Katz
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0875463207, 9780875463209
• Length: 287 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations