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Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspectives—A Review Article
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Government Intervention in Public Sector Industrial Relations: Lessons from the Alberta Teachers’ Association
In the public sector, Canadian governments intervene frequently in labor disputes by suspending collective bargaining and curtailing legal strikes. Previous research has focused on the contours of government i...
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Government Behaviors and Union Protest: Systematizing the Relationship
I develop a theory of the relationship between government actions and union political protest that uses conjunctures and structures to explain government- related factors which influence union political protes...
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A theory of union collective action
The relationship between government behaviors and union collective action has been a neglected research area. Where unions are not heavily involved in policymaking, as long as governments respect the status qu...
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The logic of labor quiescence
In 1993, the government of Alberta embarked on an ambitious plan to eliminate the provincial debt by 2010 and balance the budget within four years without raising taxes. The major vehicles to the...
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Employee involvement programs: Should unions get involved?
We test the mediated effects of participation in employee involvement (EI) programs on employee desires for union involvement in the future development and diffusion of EI and the perceived durab...
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Union responses to quality improvement initiatives: Factors sha** support and resistance
We analyze how, between 1989 and 1996, four unions in a Canadian hospital responded to a two-stage quality improvement (QI) initiative comprising a total quality management effort and a reenginee...
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The effects of workplace unionization on worker responses to HRM innovation
This study develops and empirically tests a theory which explains how workplace unionization affects worker responses to HRM innovation. We hypothesize that union support varies depending on whether the union ...
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Employees, unions, and technological changes: A research agenda
Technological changes may disrupt labor-management relations. Understanding why some workers resist technological change, while others accept and facilitate it, can be crucial for the survival of many firms. U...
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Manufacturing employees and technological change
Understanding why some workers resist technological change while others accept and facilitate it may be crucial for the survival of manufacturing firms. This study analyzes managers’ perceptions of employees’ ...
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Union decline: A view from Canada
Important changes are occurring in the Canadian unions’ political and economic environments. This paper argues that such changes may be detrimental to Canadian trade unions, given their structural and institut...
