Product Description: 'This is an excellent book. Bruce Kaufman, in his ever thoughtful way, has not just analyzed the history of the development of HRM, but assembled 17 chapters in which world-class local experts report on that history in their own country...read more

Product Description: In a companion volume to Managing the Human Factor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how American firms transitioned from the traditional "hired hand" model of human resource management (HRM) to the modern "human resources" version popular today...read more

Volume 16 of "Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations" ("AILR") highlights important and interesting aspects of industrial and labor relations. Such issues include alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, labor-management partnership and mutual gains, high involvement work systems and union-management communication networks, a new paradigm for IR/HR theory and research, implications for women of private pension reform, and competing ethical conceptions of the minimum wage.

Product Description: Widely regarded as the best, most comprehensive text available for the in-depth study of labor market theories, the text calls upon excellent pedagogical elements and empirical research to introduce students to labor economics. The authors' balanced approach to the material enables students to gain an understanding of the background of the field as they explore its latest developments and unique topics not covered in most competing texts...read more

Product Description: This collection examines the evolution of the philosophy and practice of human resource management (HRM) and industrial relations (IR) over the twentieth century. By combining history, contemporary practice, and future trends, these well-known experts present both scholarly and practitioner perspectives...read more

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Product Description: This volume provides a framework for evaluating issues of the internal governance and organizational effectiveness of labor unions. Little systematic attention has been paid to labor unions as organizations, as a prevailing assumption of the literature is to treat unions as simple institutions with well-defined objectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Examines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues...read more

Product Description: Widely regarded as the best, most comprehensive text available for the in-depth study of labor market theories, The Economics of Labor Markets, 6e calls upon excellent pedagogical elements and empirical research to introduce students to labor economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume in the series Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations contains two papers on industrial relations theory, four papers on high-involvement work practices of which three emphasize unions' roles in such practices, and two papers on labor markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ever since the emergence of industrial relations as a field in the late 1920s, three different approaches to labor problems have been focal points for research and debate, according to Bruce E. Kaufman. What he refers to as "employers" solutions involve personnel management; workers rely on unionism and collective bargaining; and the third component, the community, depends on government regulation in the form of protective labor legislation and social insurance programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume discusses such topics as where we stand in industrial relations and human resources, critical junctures in the transformation of industrial relations systems, and successor unions and the evolution of industrial relations in former Communist countries.

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