Highlights various aspects of industrial and labor relations. This title includes: alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, and competing ethical conceptions of the minimum wage.

The relative importance of psychological versus pecuniary approaches to establishing an ownership culture / Benjamin B. Dunford, Deidra J. Schleicher, Liang Zhu -- The effects of high-involvement work systems on employee and unionmanagement communication networks / Saul A. Rubinstein, Adrienne E. Eaton -- Human resources relations : a new paradigm for better theorizing and research on the HR/IR field / Kenneth F. Walker -- Private pension reform and personal accounts in the UK : implications for women / Sharon Hermes -- The minimum wage and competing ethical conceptions / Oren M. Levin-Waldman -- Accounting for collective action : resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions / Paul Willman, Alex Bryson -- Subtle but deadly? : union avoidance through "double breasting" among multinational companies / Patrick Gunnigle, Jonathan Lavelle, Anthony McDonnell -- Does labor-management partnership deliver mutual gains? : evidence from the UK public services / Vidu Badigannavar -- Introduction / David Lewin, Bruce E. Kaufman.

Volume 16 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) highlights important and interesting aspects of industrial and labor relations. Such issues include alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, labor-management partnership and mutual gains, high involvement work systems and union-management communication networks, a new paradigm for IR/HR theory and research, implications for women of private pension reform, and competing ethical conceptions of the minimum wage.

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