Publications by George Strauss
Should Australia Copy U.S. Employee Relations Practices?
July 1, 2008 • Working Papers • By George Strauss
Abstract As Australia debates the possibility of major changes in its labor laws, I am told that there are those who argue it should copy elements of the American system.
Changing Traditions in Industrial Relations Research
July 1, 2008 • Working Papers • By George Strauss and Keith Whitfield
In Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Industrial Relations Research (Whitfield and Strauss, 1998), we made a number of points about the way in which IR research…
Surviving a Changing and Often Hostile Environment: The Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations
May 1, 2008 • Working Papers • By George Strauss
Academic institutions dealing with controversial subjects are fair game for attack from all sides. How Berkeley’s Institute of Industrial Relations (recently renamed the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment)…
Why Lead Labor?: Projects and Pathways in California Unions, 1984-2001
June 1, 2003 • Working Papers • By George Strauss, Kim Voss and Marshall Ganz
John Sweeney’s election to the presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1996 sparked a major effort by US unions to “reinvent” themselves. Concurrent with the “Sweeney revolution”, a dramatic generational turnover…
Present At The Beginning: Some Personal Notes On OB's Early Days and Later
August 1, 1991 • Working Papers • By George Strauss
This isn’t going to be a conventional autobiography. The great events of my life, my marriage and family, are hardly of interest to the wider world. The bulk of this…
August 1, 1991 • Working Papers • By George Strauss
This is a brief sketch of some of the main issues facing Human Resources Management (HRM) in the United States during the 1990s. I will focus on policy problems rather…