UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRI M Vol. 5, No. 1 May 1962 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CONFERENCE Annual Meeting to Be Held May 25, in San Francisco Four Major Addresses to be Given The Institute's annual Industrial Rela- tions Conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, May 25, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Four major speakers and two panels will deal with the latest developments in collective bargaining, labor law, and gov- ernment policies and actions. The conference will open with an ad- dress by Benjamin Aaron on "The First Two Years of Landrum-Griffin." Aaron Benjamin Aaron William E. Simkin Arthur M. Ross John T. Dunlop is Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations and Professor of Law at UCLA, a member of the advisory committee to the U.S. Office of Automation and Man- Institute Receives$400,000 Ford Grant power, and President of the National Academy of Arbitrators. To Study Unemployment Problems The Future of Work The Ford Foundation has awarded the force have important implications for in- A panel discussion titled, "The Future Institute $400,000 for a four-year study dustrial relations and collective bargain- of Work," will follow, moderated by of unemployment. ing as well as for national economic John F. Henning, Director of the State Persistently high unemployment over policy. Department of Industrial Relations. The the last few years and the possibility of its For these reasons, the Institute has possible future for jobs, management continuing in the future are problems planned a large-scale research program policy, and unions will be considered by which represent major challenges to the which will get under way this fall. The three participants: economy. project is based on the premise that per- Louis E. Davis, University Professor Such factors as automation and the sistent unemployment is leading to policy of Industrial Engineering; Dale Yoder, boom in youthful entrants to the labor approaches, both public and private, with Director of the Division of Industrial which there has been little previous ex- Relations, Stanford Graduate School of perience in this country. Business; Joseph T. DeSilva, Executive Industrial Relations, and arbitrator for A planning committee has agreed that Secretary of the Retail Clerks Union, North American Aviation and the United 15 interrelated studies are necessary- Local 770, Hollywood. Auto Workers. Ross will consider the some designed to provide better guide- William E. Simkin will speak after question: "Is Collective Bargaining a lines for the development of policy and lunch on "The Role of Government in Success?" others to provide the basis for clearer Collective Bargaining." Simkin is Direc- At 5 p.m. a reception will be held, formulation of employment goals and tor of the Federal Mediation and Concili- followed by dinner. John T. Dunlop will more accurate prediction of labor market ation Service and a former arbitrator for speak on "Industrial Efficiency and Job trends in the next decade or so. several national companies. Security." Dunlop is Chairman of the Twelve University economists and one Economics Department at Harvard, a sociologist will participate in the pro- Wage-Price Policies member of the Presidential Railroad gram. Participants from the Institute A panel will follow: "Do We Need a Commission, and a member of the Inde- staff will be: Joseph W. Garbarino, Mar- Wage-Price Policy? Have We Got One?" pendent Study Group on National Labor garet S. Gordon, Ida R. Hoos, Paul The participants will be: Joseph W. Gar. Policy. Jacobs, Arthur M. Ross, George Strauss, barino, University Professor of Business The Industrial Relations Conference is and Lloyd Ulman. Administration; Harry Polland, a San open to all interested persons. The fee Specialists from other institutions are Francisco labor economist; and William for the whole day, including lunch and expected to take part in certain phases H. Smith, Executive Vice President of dinner, is $12. of the project. Several dissertation schol- the Federated Employers of San Fran- Further information may be obtained arships, fellowships, and research assist- cisco. from William E. Rogin, Institute of In- antships will also be granted. After a break, the conference will re- dustrial Relations, 201 California Hall, The entire project will be coordinated convene to hear Arthur M. Ross, Insti- University of California, Berkeley; by Ross and R. A. Gordon, chairman of tute Director, University Professor of THornwall 8-4642. the Economics Del ar#11VILITE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LIBRARY MAY 1 4 iao9q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY CURRENT INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH BOOKS Scientists in Industry: Conflict and Accommodation ACTIVITIES By William Kornhauser, with the assistance of Warren 0. Hagstrom (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962; $6) Rapid growth in the number of salaried professional workers is one of the striking Philip Selznick, Professor of Sociology features of a mature industrial society. One of the main factors responsible for this and a member of the Institute research trend, of course, is the tremendous expansion of research in industry and government, staff for many years, has been appointed which has created a rapidly growing demand for persons trained in the professions, Chairman of the new Center for the Study particularly in the physical sciences and engineering. of Law and Society on the Berkeley cam- What problems does this development pose for the large-scale organizations which pus. Supported by grants from the Rus- conduct research and for the scientists who work for them? To what extent do conflicts sell Sage Foundation and the Meyer Re- arise between the needs of the organizations for prompt and usable results, on the one search Institute of Law for an initial hand, and the aspirations of the scientists for high professional standards and some three-year period, the Center will develop degree of independence in their research, on the other? These are the central questions a program of research into the nature of with which Professor Kornhauser is concerned in this study based on interviews with the law and its social, political, and eco- both research and management personnel in nine large organizations with substantial nomic settings. Selznick is currently com- research activities. In the course of exploring these issues, he deals with such problems pleting work on his study of job rights as the goals of professional workers in industry, the organizational controls imposed on and due process in modern industry, them, the role of professional associations and unions, and the extent to which the atti- which is to be published under the aus- tudes of professional workers are molded and changed by the organizations for which pices of the Institute of Industrial Rela- they work. tions. An article based on this study ap- pears in the May 1962 issue of INDUS- REPRINTS TRIAL RELATIONS. Industrialism and World Society, by Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick Harbison, and Charles A. Myers (No. 162). In an article published in the Harvard Clark Kerr will serve as chairman of a Business Review, the authors present some important and original conclusions regard- series of nine sessions dealing with pro- ing the course of industrialism and its effect on future world society. ductivity at the next meeting of the In- ternational Economics Association, to be Private and Governmental Plans for the Adjustment of Interunion Dis- held in Vienna, August 30 to September putes: Work Assignment, by J. Keith Mann and Hugh P. Husband, Jr. (No. 163). 1, 1962. Kerr has also been responsible A paper concerned with early and recent attempts by labor and government to resolve for arranging the program for these ses- and prevent jurisdictional disputes. sions, which will include papers and Change and Controversy in Recent American Sociology, by Seymour Martin critical comments by participants from Lipset and Neil Smelser (No. 164). Reflecting on American developments over the Australia, Canada, England, France, past several decades, the authors consider some of the problems created by the rapid Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, growth of an intellectual discipline. the Soviet Union, Sweden, Turkey, and Industrialism and Industrial Man, by Clark Kerr, Frederick H. Harbison, the United States. Walter Galenson, Pro- John T. and A. fessor of Business Administration and Dunlop, Charles Myers (No. 165). The authors describe the features member of the Institute research staff, of industrialization which are common to all nations, analyze the different roads to will deliver one of the papers. industrialism and the types of "elite" likely to assume leadership, and, in conclusion, make predictions as to the form of industrialism that will finally emerge. Lloyd Ulman is on leave of absence for Swedish Trade Unions and the Social Democratic Party, by Donald J. Blake the present academic year to serve as a (No. 166). Taking a critical period in Swedish labor history, Blake tests, and finds senior member of the staff of the Presi- faulty, the popular view that the development of union-party relationships is a process dent's Council of Economic Advisers. in which successful unions free themselves from party domination. Rise of the Labour Movement in Jamaica, by 0. W. Phelps (No. 167). A Paul Jacobs, journalist and Director short history, covering: early legislative gains (1919-1934), the mass labor revolt of of the study of Labor in a Free Society 1938, the rise of W. A. Bustamante, the establishment of trade unions, and the role of which is nearing completion under the labor in politics and government (1939-1958). auspices of the Fund for the Republic, Why the American Labor Movement Is Not Socialist, by Walter Galenson joined the Institute staff on a half-time (No. 168). In an article reprinted from the American Review, Galenson describes past basis on May 1, 1962.