Articles

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The Revitalization of the CWA: Integrating Collective Bargaining, Political Action, and Organizing (with Rosemary Batt and Jeffrey H. Keefe), Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2003)

This case study of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) demonstrates the value of resource...

 

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Industrial Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry: An Illustration of Increased Decentralization and Diversity, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1997)

"This paper traces the evolution of employment relations in the U.S. auto industry over the...

 

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Symposium on Employment Relations Reform in the World Automobile Industry: Introduction (with Russell D. Lansbury and Fun-Koo Park), Articles & Chapters (1997)

"The international automobile industry provides a useful basis for examining the degree and nature of...

 

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The Decentralization of Collective Bargaining: A Literature Review and Comparative Analysis, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1993)

"The author reviews evidence that the bargaining structure is becoming more decentralized in Sweden, Australia,...

 

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Industrial Relations and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry (with Thomas A. Kochan and Jeffrey H. Keefe), Articles & Chapters (1987)

"In the late 1970s and 1980s intensified international competition in motor vehicle manufacturing and sales...

 

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Industrial Relations Performance, Economic Performance, and QWL Programs: An Interplant Analysis (with Thomas A. Kochan and Kenneth R. Gobeille), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1983)

"This study analyzes the relationship among plant-level measures of industrial relations performance, economic performance, and...

 

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Interest Arbitration, Outcomes, and the Incentive to Bargain (with Henry S. Farber), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1979)

"This study develops a model of bargaining that demonstrates that an interest arbitration procedure will...

 

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The Municipal Budgetary Response to Changing Labor Costs: The Case of San Francisco, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1979)

"This paper analyzes how expenditures of the city of San Francisco were altered in response...

 

Contributions to Books

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10. The Academic Departments (with Isadore Blumen, Bob Aronson, Ron Ehrenberg, Frank B. Miller, and Larry Williams), The ILR School at Fifty: Voices of the Faculty, Alumni & Friends (1996)

Includes: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History: The Department of Economic and Social Statistics;...

 

Working Papers

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Telecommunications 2004: Strategy, HR Practices & Performance - Cornell-Rutgers Telecommunications Project (with Rosemary Batt, Alex Colvin, and Jeffrey Keefe), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2004)

This national benchmarking report of the U.S. telecommunications services industry traces the tumultuous changes in...

 

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Telecommunications 2000 Strategy, HR Practices & Performance (with Rosemary Batt, Alexander Colvin, and Jeffrey Keefe), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2000)

This report constitutes the first benchmarking survey of business and human resource practices among a...

 

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Telecommunications 2000: Strategy, HR Practices and Performance (with Rosemary Batt, Alexander J.S. Colvin, and Jeffrey Keefe), Faculty Publications - Human Resource Studies (2000)

This report constitutes the first benchmarking survey of business and human resource practices among a...

 

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The Restructuring of Industrial Relations in the United States, CAHRS Working Paper Series (1991)

This paper discusses the extent to which a new industrial relations system including greater participation...

 

Research Studies and Reports

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Telecommunications 2004: Business Strategy, HR Practices, and Performance (with Rosemary Batt, Alexander J.S. Colvin, and Jeffrey Keefe), Faculty Publications - Human Resource Studies (2004)

This national benchmarking report of the U.S. telecommunications services industry traces the tumultuous changes in...

 

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How High Performance Human Resource Practices and Workforce Unionization Affect Managerial Pay (with Alexander Colvin and Rosemary Batt), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2000)

Using data from a nationally representative sample of telecommunications establishments, this study finds that HR...

 

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Final Report on a Survey of Training and the Restructuring of Work in Large Unionized Firms (with Jeffrey H. Keefe), CAHRS Working Paper Series (1993)

[Excerpt] This report summarizes and analyzes a survey of the training and work restructuring occurring...

 

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Training and Workforce Preparedness: Introduction, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1990)

"An introduction to a special, multi-part report on training and workforce preparedness."

 

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A Study of Regulatory Intervention in Labor-Management Relations: School Desegregation in Los Angeles, Dade County, and Boston, Articles & Chapters (1983)

"This article analyzes the interaction between public school desegregation and labor relations in Los Angeles,...

 

Presentations

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What's Ahead for ILR: A Presentation by Dean Harry Katz on Future Plans, Priorities and the Campaign, ILR School, Cornell University (2008)

In the ILR School's first online webinar, Dean Harry Katz discusses the future of the...