A Leading Journal in Industrial Relations and Labor

Industrial Relations

Edited by:
Steven Raphael, Trond Petersen

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 4/15 (Industrial Relations & Labor)
Impact Factor: 1.098

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Corporate restructuring and downsizing, the changing employment relationship in union and nonunion settings, high performance work systems, the demographics of the workplace, and the impact of globalization on national labor markets - these are just some of the major issues covered in Industrial Relations. The journal offers an invaluable international perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor and employment. It is the only journal in its field with this multidisciplinary focus on the implications of change for business, government and workers.

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TopHighlights

• Clark Kerr and the Founding of the Berkeley IIR: A Celebratory Remembrance
  Bruce E. Kaufman
   
• Getting Hired: Sex and Race
  Trond Petersen, and Ishak Saporta, and Marc-David L. Seidel
   
• Race, Compensation and Contract Length in the NBA:  2001-2
  Lawrence M. Kahn and Malav Shah
   
• Mass Layoffs and CEO Turnover
  Sherrilyn M. Billger and Kevin F. Hallock
   
• Ratcheting Up: Linked Technology Adoption in Supply Chains
  Margaret Hwang Smith and David Weil
   
• Not Yet Dead at the Fed: Unions, Worker Bargaining, and Economy-Wide Wage Determination
  Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Christopher L. Erickson
   
• Trade Union Decline and Union Wage Effects in Australia
  C. Jeffrey Waddoups
   
• International Framework Agreements: A New Model for Securing Workers Rights?
  Lone Riisgaard
   
• Fighting for Other Folks' Wages: The Logic and Illogic of Living Wage Campaigns
  Richard B. Freeman
   
• The Reform of the German Works Constitution Act: A Critical Assessment
  John T. Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner
   
• External Churning and Internal Flexibility: Evidence on the Functional Flexibility and Core-Periphery Hypotheses
  Peter Cappelli and David Neumark
   
• Symposium: The Effect of Work-Family Policies on Employees and Employers (Volume 42: Issue 2, April 2003)
  
  
• Symposium on Disability and Employment (Volume 42: Issue 1, January 2003)
    
•  Special Issue: The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers (Volume 43: Issue 1, January 2004)
   
• Special Issue: The Impacts of Living Wage Policies (Volume 44: Issue 1, January 2005)