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Labor Studies and Employment Relations
We Study Work, We Value Justice |
ADRIENNE EATON
CHAIR, LSER AND DIRECTOR, LABOR EXTENSION
 She has three current, long-term streams of research. The first of those streams concerns union participation in management decision-making and the relationship of unions to direct forms of worker participation and has been published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labor Studies Journal, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations and several book chapters. Most recently, she is co-author along with Tom Kochan (MIT) and others of three research reports on the Kaiser Permanente Labor-Management Partnership. The second research stream concerns the negotiation, effectiveness and outcomes of neutrality and card check agreements. This research has been published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Perspectives on Work, in a book chapter, and in technical reports. The third stream concerns the unionization of managerial workers, in particular, public sector supervisors. This research has been published in Labor Studies Journal and in book chapters. Prof. Eaton currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, a position she has held since September 2002. She is also a member of the editorial board for Labor Studies Journal.
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About:
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Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Office:
Phone:
732-932-8561
aeeaton@rci.rutgers.edu
Writings from LSER faculty:
Rethinking Unions
Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente >> more
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May 2009- Cornell University Press released Adrienne Eaton’s new book, Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, co-authored with Tom Kochan, Bob McKersie (both from MIT) and Paul Adler (USC). The book is based on years of research with Kaiser and its unions. As John Paul McDuffie’s blurb on the back of the book says, “Healing Together’s clear-eyed view of the ever-present perils and potential payoffs for all parties makes this the most comprehensive and valuable account of labor-management innovation in years – and just in time, as the nation turns to the twin challenges of reforming both labor relations and health care.”
- Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky, “NLRB Elections versus Card Check Campaigns: Results of a Worker Survey”, January 2009 issue of Industrial and Labor Relations Review. The study makes an important contribution to the current debate around the Employee Free Choice Act, finding that workers themselves report much more pressure from employers to oppose the union in both elections and card campaigns than pressure from union representatives to support the union in card check campaigns.
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