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- Does everyone have course outline and paper handout?
- Has everyone checked the web page?
- For next time, read Scoville
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- Nature of Models
- Comparative Studies
- Industrial-Relations Systems
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- Why use models or theories
- Choosing model or theory to fit the question
- For example, looking at industrial conflict v. looking at management
behavior
- Dynamic models v. static models
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- What is the smallest number of systems we would want to compare? Why?
- What are the limitations of comparing two systems as opposed to
comparing three or more?
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- Employment Relationships
- Rule Making
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- Actors
- Environments/Contexts
- Rules
- Ideology
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- Workers and their representatives
- Employers and their representatives
- Government agencies
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- Technological
- Economic
- Locus and distribution of power in society
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- Procedural Rules
- Substantive Rules
- Administrative Rules
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- Of each actor and of the overall system
- Compatibility
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- Kerr, Dunlop, Harbison and Myers Industrialization Approach
- KDHM v. Dunlop
- Scoville Approach
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- Nature of Comparative Studies
- Industrial Relations Systems
- Actors
- Environments
- Rules
- Ideology
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- Reading for next time - Clegg
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- Kerr, Dunlop, Harbison and Myers Industrialization Approach
- Dunlop v. KDHM
- Scoville Approach
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- Industrialization is the central labor issue
- Industrialization requires elites to introduce and extend it into
society
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- Dynastic
- Middle Class
- Colonial
- Nationalist
- Marxist
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- Cross-sectional and static v. longitudinal and dynamic
- Purely taxonomic v. predictive
- General v. Specific
- Where does Dunlop focus attention?
- Where do KDHM focus attention?
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- Tell us what a system is
- Suggest dimensions along which systems may differ or be similar
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- Labor movement consists of unions and of workers political institutions
- Mistake to focus just on unions
- Economic v. political action
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- Groups centering on workers themselves
- Middle-class reformers
- Intellectuals
- Variety of economic, social and political factors influence this choice
- Britain and US labor tended to follow middle-class reformers where
European labor tended to follow intellectuals
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- What kind of structure will a political labor movement require?
- What kind of structure will an economic labor movement require?
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- As industrialization develops, the labor movement evolves in response
- However, the initial structure of the labor movement continues to have
an impact on that evolution
- Example: AFL structure adopted in the 1880s
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- Distinctive Features of the US system of Industrial Relations
- Based on the Dunlop framework
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- Reading for next time first reading on Canada
- Also Atlapedia and Labourstart
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- Forces shaping the origins and development of the labor movement
- Questions about Clegg? Wont be
covered in class
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- Distinctive Features of the US IRHRM system?
- Based on the Dunlop model
- Suggests points of comparison with other systems
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- Distribution of power in society
- Technological environment
- Economic environment
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- Ideologies of each of the actors
- Workers
- Employers
- Government
- Relationship of these ideologies to that of the overall society
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- Unions
- Employers
- Government
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- Procedures for making rules
- Rules terms and conditions
- Administration and interpretation of the rules
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- Begin discussion of Canadian IRHRM practices
- Check Atlapedia and Labourstart
- Do first reading on Canada
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