An Introduction to Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations, 4/e
Harry Katz,
Cornell University Thomas A. Kochan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander J.S. Colvin,
Pennsylvania State University
ISBN: 0073137154 Copyright year: 2008
About the Authors
Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). His major publications include: Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems (with Owen Darbishire), 2000; Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide, 1997; and Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1985. Professor Katz received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkley in 1977.
Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Kochan is a past president of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA). In 1996, he received the Heneman Career Achievement Award. From 1993 to 1995 he served on the Clinton Administration’s Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations, which investigated methods to improve the productivity and global competitiveness of the American workplace. His recent publications include: After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry, 1997; Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy, 1995; and The Mutual Gains Enterprise, 1994. Professor Kochan received his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.
Alexander J. S. Colvin is Associate Professor, Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1999 and his LL.B. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1992. His current research includes examination of the impact of restructuring in the telecommunications industry on the work organization and employment conditions of employees and managers. Dr. Colvin received the Annual Industrial Relations Research Association Best Dissertation Award for “Citizens and Citadels: Dispute Resolution and the Governance of Employment Relations” for 2000. He also received the John Dunlop
Young Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2003.
Professors Katz and Kochan (with Robert McKersie) are the co-authors of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, which was awarded the Terry Book Award in 1988 as the most significant contribution to the field of management by the Academy of Management.
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