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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 059 381 VT 014 696 AUTHOR Somers, GeraldG. Ed. TITLE A Review of Industrial Relations Research, Volume INSTITUTION Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Industrial Relations Research Inst. PUB DATE Oct 71 NOTE 238p. AVAILABLE FROM Industrial Relations Research Association, 7114 Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 53706 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Collective Bargaining; Foreign Countries; *Industrial Relations; Labor Legislation; *Personnel Management; Personnel Policy; *Public Policy; *Research Reviews (Publications) ABSTRACT This report, with Volume I previously released, appraises selected research in industrial relations since 1956-57. Experts analyze the character and contributions of the research output in their areas of expertise.. Contents include:(1) "Public Policy and Labor-Management Relations" by Benjamin Aaron and Paul Seth Meyer, (2) "Manpower Research and Manpower Policy" by Garth L. Mangum,(3) "Collective Bargaining Trends and Patterns" by James L.. Stern, and (4)"Industrial Relations in Western Europe and Canada" by John Crispo. A related document, Volume I, is available asED 047 401. (GEB) o . , A ID 0 I 0 . Lc3 A REVIEW OF LT INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH Volume II Benjamin Aaron & Garth L. Mangum Paul S. Meyer James L. Stern John Crispo THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION The Indnstrial Relations Research Association was founded in 1947 by a group who felt that the growing field of industrial relations re- quired an assoeintionin which professionally-minded people from dif- ferent orgnnizations could meet periodically.It was intended to enable all who were professioanlly interested in indnstrial relations to become better acquainted and to keep up to date with the practices and ideas at work inthe field.The word "Research" inthe name reflects the conviction of the founders that the encouragement, reporting and crit- icaldiscussion of researchisessentialif onr professionalfieldisto advance, In our memberhip of 3500 yon will find representatives of man- agement, unions, government; practitiom's inconsulting,arbitration and law; and seholars and teachers representing many disciplines in colleges and universitiesin the United States and Canada, as well as abroad. Among the disciplines represented in this Association are ad- ministrativesciences,anthropology, economies,history,law,political science, psychology and sociology.Membership is open to all who are professionally interestedand activeinthe broadfieldof industrial relations.Libraries and institutions who are interested inthe publi- cations of the Association are alsoinvited to become members, and therefore subscribers to the publications. Regular Membership dues are $10 per calendar year; Foreign Mem- bership (from outsi(le the U.S. and Canaan) $5; Student Membership $5; Contributing Membership $50; Life Membership (single payment) $150; and Library or Institutional Subscriptions $10. Inquiries and other communications regarding membership, meetings, publications and the general affairs of the Association, as well as orders forpublications, copyright requests, and notice of address changes, should be addressed to the IRRA publication office: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 U.S.A. 2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION SERIES A REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH Vol u me I I BENJAMIN AARON and PAUL SETH MEYER School of Law University of California at Los Angeles JOHN CRISPO Centre for Industrial Relations University of Toronto GARTH L. MANGUM Human Resources Institute University of Utah JAMES L. STERN Department of Economics University of Wisconsin U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO. OUCE0 EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG- INATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPIN- IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EVU- CATION POSITION OR POLICY 3 Industrial Relations Research Associations Series A REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH, Volume II Copyright © 1971 by Industrial Relations Research Association. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First Edition Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-133834 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THISCOPY PRICE $5.00 RIGHTED MATERIALAulua, BY MICROFICHEONLY Rgst TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONSOPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THEUS OFFICE OF EDUCATION FURTHERREPRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REOUIRESPER MISSION OF THE COPYRIGHTOWNER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION SERIES October 1971, No. 5 Annual Subscription $10 Published seven times yearly:May, Proceedings of Annual Winter Meet- ing; August, Proceedings of Annual Spring Meeting;October, Annual Research 'Volume (or Directory every sixth year in lieu of the research volume) ; March, June, September, December, IRRA Newsletter (issued quarterly).Gerald G. Somers, Editor; David B. Johnson, Secretary- Treasurer; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Gulesscrian, Executive Assistant. Inquiries and other communications regarding membership, meetings, publications and the general affairs of the Association, as well as orders for publications, copyright requests, and notice of address changes, should be addressed to the IRRA Series office: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. Telephone 608/262-2762 Second class postage paid at Madison, WI Printed by R. F. Colwell Printing Corp., Champaign, IL 61820 ii 4 Preface Research in industrial relations has continued to flourish and change since the IRRA's last review volumes in1956-57.New journals devoted to literature in the field have joined an already impressive list, and research reports, monographs and text books have added significantly to industrial relations libraries. In keeping with its charter for the "encouragement, reporting and critical discussion of research," the Industrial Relations Re- search Association's Executive Board felt that the Association's special research volumes in1970and1971should be devoted to an appraisal of the research since our last review.Outstanding experts in the field were asked to make in-depth analysesof the character and contributions of the research output in their areas of expertise. In addition to the chapters included in this volume, four chapters were presented in Volume I, published last year: Labor Force and Labor Markets by Herbert S. Parnes, Wagesand Benefits by E. Robert Livernash, Organizational Behaviorand Personnel Relations by George Strauss, and Union Growth,Gov- ernment and Structure by Woodrow L. Ginsburg.Together, the two volumes cover the major areas normallyincluded in the In- dustrial Relations field. Members of the IRRA's Executive Board served as an editorial review panel for the volumes, and other specialists also reviewed the manuscripts and made helpful comments and suggestions.In addition to those listed in the preface to Volume I, we wish to acknowledge the assistance of Douglass V. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jack Barbash, David B. Johnsonand Everett Kassa low, University of Wisconsin; GeorgeHildebrand, Seymour Brandwein and Howard Rosen, U.S. Departmentof La- bor; Martin Wagner, University of Illinois; ThayneRobson, Uni- versity of Utah; and Sar Levitan and Lowell Glenn,National Manpower Advisory Task Force. The help of Elizabeth Gulesserian, the IRRA's ExecutiveAssis- tant, is also gratefully acknowledged. GERALD G. SOMERS Editor, IRRA Madison, Wisconsin June1971 in Contents PREFACE Gerald G. Somers PUBLIC POLICY AND LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS Benjamin Aaron and Paul Seth Meyer 1 MANPOWER RESEARCH AND MANPOWER POLICY Garth L. Mangum 61 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TRENDS AND PATTERNS James L. Stern 129 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND CANADA John Crispo 187 Public Policy and Labor-Management Relations BY BENJAMIN AARON AND PAUL SEM MEYER University of California, Los Angeles A review of research in the area of public policy and labor- management relations presents certain difficulties peculiar to the subject.Most of the published material is by lawyers and law professors, whose writings tend to assume the form of description and detailed analysis of selected statutory provisions and judicial or administrative decisions, rather than the developmentof general theories based on empirical studies.Moreover, in the case of legal scholarship in this country, tradition favors the publica- Con of law review articles and orcasional essays, rather than books. There are over 100 law jou.nals or reviews, published by law schools throughout the country on a monthly or quarterly basis, in which articles on the subject of this essay may have appeared. The same likelihood existsin. respect of an almost equally large number of bar association publications and a few industrial relations and arbitration journals.Finally, some of the most significant writings have taken the form of papers pre- sented at conferences and symposia devoted to labor relations law and industrialrelations, or of reports by congressional com- mittees or private commissions. The sheer magnitude of the published material has forced us to place a number of purely arbitrary limitations on the scope of our own review. Thus, we have concentrated on the relatively