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October
2005 (No. 9) |
Editor: Terence
K. Huwe
Contributors: Elizabeth del Rocío Camacho, Janice Kimball
IIR News & Events
IIR All Staff Breakfast: Wednesday, October
12, 2005
Faculty Research Focus: Margaret Weir’s
MacArthur Research
New Minimum Wage Research and Reports on the
IIR Web
Former IIR Director Jim Lincoln Named Associated
Dean at Haas
Visiting Scholar Tsuyoshi Tsuru Invites IIR
Affiliates to Economics 190
IIR Seminar Series: Fall 2005
Labor and Education Fund Grant Awards: Katie
Quan and Arin Dube
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and
Society: New Issue Just Published
IIR Graduate Student Researchers, Fall 2005
Top 2004-2005 IIR Working Papers by Downloads
IIR Unit News
Labor Center News
CPER News
IIR Library
Labor Project for Working Families
Center for the Study of Child Care
Employment News
Campus Events
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Latino Policy Research
Economics Department: Colloquia and Seminars
Haas School of Business: OBIR and Sponsored
Conferences
Sociology Department
IIR All Staff Breakfast: Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Mark your calendars for the first all-community event of the
fall. Faculty, staff, students and student employees are all
invited to the IIR All Staff Breakfast, from 9:30 to 11:30 on
October 12. This event will be a chance to get to know new faces
and socialize—without a meeting agenda. RSVP to Myra Armstrong,
zulu2@calmail.berkeley.edu.
Margaret Weir’s “Building Successful Regions”
Project: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of “Resilient”
Regions
Margaret Weir has been leading a large-scale working group that
is studying how metropolitan regions become resilient. “Building
Successful Regions”, funded by the MacArthur Foundation,
has created a cross-disciplinary network of scholars, who are
exploring the following questions: What makes American metropolitan
areas resilient in the face of major economic and demographic
challenges? What political processes and institutions at the
local, state, and federal levels help create policies that can
address region-wide issues? Among the challenges they are examining
are rapid economic growth, large scale immigration, deconcentration
of urban poverty, and long-term economic decline. Each of these
shifts produces benefits as well as strains. For example, rapid
economic growth creates new pressures on traffic, the environment,
housing and infrastructure; prolonged economic decline typically
accompanied by lower tax revenues, job losses, and a decline
in the number of skilled workers. How can regions respond to
shocks in ways that open new opportunities for growth and inclusion?
The 18-month initial phase of the work, which began in spring
2005, is surveying the academic and policy literature to assess
what we already know about regional resilience. The network
is meeting bi-monthly as it sets in agenda, inviting additional
scholars and practitioners to share their perspectives with
the group. This initial work will set the stage for proposing
a second phase of primary empirical research.
The research team members come from a range of fields -- including
economics, planning, sociology, and political science. Participating
institutions include UC Santa Cruz, Harvard University, Cornell
University, the Brookings Institution, State University of New
York at Buffalo, and Cleveland State University.
New Minimum Wage Research and Reports on the IIR Web
The IIR Web has a newly updated resource for minimum research,
with an important new IIR policy brief available for downloading.
The policy brief is titled, “Minimum Wages and the California
Economy.” The URL for this resource page is:
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/research/minimumwage.html
Former IIR Director Jim Lincoln Named Associate Dean
as the Haas School
Former IIR Director James R. Lincoln has been named
Deputy Associate Dean for Academic Affairs this Fall. Starting
in January 2006 he will be Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and Faculty Chair at Haas for a 1.5 year term.
Jim has also had a busy research and lecture schedule recently.
Last year he gave talks at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Yonsei University in South Korea, and Beijing University.
I also gave a paper at a conference on corporate governance
in Shanghai in July.
From mid-May through Mid-July of this summer, Jim was a visiting
professor at Doshisha University. While there he conducted at
Toyota and Toyota electronics supplier Denso. This was part
of his general research program on business networks in Japan
and how they are changing. Jim has followed Toyota's relationship
with Denso over time, and has studied how the relationship was
strained by: (a) Toyota's effort to produce its own electronics;
and (b) Denso's success in selling to Toyota's competition.
The interviews specifically concerned the collaboration between
Denso and Toyota in developing and producing the Prius Hybrid
automobile. Denso had been excluded from the 1st generation
Prius but had a big role in the 2nd generation Prius. The 2nd
generation Prius is a much better car than the first generation
model, in part because Denso is better at automotive electronics
than Toyota.
Visiting Scholar Tsuyoshi Tsuru Invites IIR Affiliates
to Economics 190
Tsuru-San teaches Economics 190 every Wednesday afternoon at
the IIR Director's room. He I will invite HR practitioners from
Japan as well as IIR colleagues to participate in this lecture
series. Tsuru-San welcomes interested IIR researchers and staff
to attend:
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/tsuru/e190_f05/index.shtml
9/28 Wed 3:40-5 pm Case Presentation by Maki Sato, HR dept staff
of Advantest Corporation (Japanese high-end manufacturer of
test systems of semiconductor)
"Business Strategy and Personnel/ HR systems of Advantest"
10/5 Wed 2-3:30 pm Guest lecture: "Recent changes in the
U.S. personnel/HR system ," by Prof. Clair Brown, UC Berkeley
10/19 Wed 2-3:30 pm Guest lecture: "Recent changes in the
U.S. employee participation and representation ," by Prof.
David Levine, UC Berkeley
10/26 Wed 3:40-5 pm Case Presentation by Yoshihiko Masuda, President
& CEO of Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
11/16 Wed 2-3:30 pm Guest lecture: "Recent trends in Japanese
firm organization : Keiretsu networks," by Prof. James
Lincoln, UC Berkeley
IIR Seminar Series: Fall 2005
Some final details are still forthcoming, but the IIR
Seminar Series will be posted on the IIR Web soon. The following
information gives a preview of who is speaking, and what their
topics will be.
 SEPTEMBER
26, 2005
IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW MODEL OF EMPLOYER ASCENDANCY
Daniel Mitchell
Ho-su Wu Professor, Andersen Graduate School of Management,
U.C.L.A.
Daniel J.B. Mitchell, chaired the Department of Policy Studies (now the Department of Public Policy) during 1996-97. Prof. Mitchell was formerly director of the U.C.L.A. Institute of Industrial Relations (1979-90) and continues to serve on the Institute's advisory committee. During Phase II of the federal wage/price controls program of the early 1970s, Prof. Mitchell was chief economist of the Pay Board, the agency that administered wage controls. He was twice associated with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., including a stint as a senior fellow in the economic studies program (1978-79), and participated in several Brookings-sponsored research projects.
Prof. Mitchell is the author of Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). The book uses California's colorful experience with "pensionite" movements of the state's seniors during the period from the 1920s through the 1940s to draw implications for the upcoming retirement of the baby boom".
 OCTOBER
10, 2005
“PHYSICAL” SPACE, “DIGITAL”
SPACE: A NEW VISION FOR THE INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
LIBRARY
Terence K. Huwe
Director of Library and Information Resources, IIR
IIR Librarian Terry Huwe discusses current plans to reconfigure
the IIR Library in the context of systemwide goals and priorities
that are underway within the University of California Libraries.
These include the University’s commitment to the Open
Access movement; responding to the crisis in scholarly communications;
print and digital collection strategies that extend the UC Libraries
reach; and the growing importance of dim and dark archives.
From this context, he will describe the Library’s plans
for an Electronic Commons and other community-enhancing features,
which will improve access to digital resources while retaining
the core print collections. He concludes with some forecasts
about the roles libraries may play within research universities,
and how the IIR Library can advance the Institutes overall objectives
as a print-plus-digital library.
 OCTOBER
17, 2005
TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED
Manuel Pastor
Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community,
at the University of
California, Santa
OCTOBER 24, 2005
TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED
Rucker Johnson
OCTOBER 31, 2005
THE DISSIPATION OF MINIMUM WAGE GAINS FOR WORKERS THROUGH LABOR
SUBSTITUTION
David Fairris
Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of Student Academic
Affairs, College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, U.C. Riverside
NOVEMBER 7,2005
OFFSHORING INTERFACES & INCENTIVES: The Case of Automotive
Product
Development
Sue Helper
Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
NOVEMBER 14, 2005
OFFSHORING: OUTLOOK AND IMPLICATIONS
Ashok Bardhan & Cynthia Kroll
Senior Researcher, Haas School of Business; Senior Regional
Economist, Haas School
of Business
NOVEMBER 14, 2005
PROMISING FUTURES?: WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & MODES OF REGIONAL
GOVERNANCE
Karen Chapple
Visiting Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning,
University of Pennsylvania
DECEMBER 5, 2005
TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED
Alexandre Mas
Labor and Education Fund Awards: Katie Quan and Arin
Dube
The following two sponsored projects were not listed in the
September eNews issue, which covered recent UC Labor and Education
Fund grant awards.
Katie Quan
“Documenting the Effects of the Phase-out of the
Multi-Fiber Agreement”
Summary:
This award is to fund part of a larger project that CLRE is
conducting to document the impacts of the end of the Multi-Fiber
Agreement, a system of global textile quotas lifted on January
1, 2005. They will be documenting these effects by carrying
out surveys among 600 garment workers in Los Angeles, China
and El Salvador over a 2 year period. The intent is to provide
stakeholders such as workers, unions, businesses and government
with information necessary to understand the economic and social
consequences of the MFA termination and to generate policy solutions.
Arin Dube
“The Dynamics of Job-Quality Transformation: Health
Benefits in the Unionized Grocery Sector of California”
Summary:
This study will analyze how the restructuring of health benefits
and compensation among unionized grocery workers in California
in 2004 and 2005 affected employee turnover, workforce demographics,
and health care coverage and utilization in the industry. The
changes that Dube will be studying are critical to understanding
the evolution of labor relations in the state. Health care coverage
and costs have been a central issue in labor relations conflict
in the state and the country as a whole over the past five years.
This case study will provide a unique window into understanding
how large-scale changes in the structure of compensation affect
the workforce and health insurance outcomes for modest wage
earners.
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society:
New Issue Just Published
Volume 44, Issue 3 (October 2005) has just been published. Titles,
authors and abstracts follow below. IIR’s top-ranked journal
is accessible electronically via the University Library’s
Web site, which provides access to the Blackwell Synergy database.
Not Yet Dead at the Fed: Unions, Worker Bargaining,
and Economy-wide Wage Determination
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 565 - October 2005
DANIEL J. B. MITCHELL and CHRISTOPHER L. ERICKSON
Transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the
Federal Reserve and related documents provide new insights into
how macro-policy makers characterized the labor market. Over
the period of the 1980s and the 1990s, the Federal Reserve seemingly
overemphasized the significance of union settlements, characterizing
them in wage-push terms out of proportion to declining union
density. Fed policy makers expressed surprise that the nonaccelerating
inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) dropped during this period
and offered various ad hoc explanations to explain the drop.
The underlying common element of these explanations is that
they were based on a rhetorical bargaining framework, explicit
or implicit, that workers bargain as active agents for wages.
Along with ongoing direct discussion of union settlements, this
tendency suggests a view of worker bargaining power that seems
at variance with union decline and the reality of an increasingly
nonunion labor market. While worker bargaining models can be
reconciled in a formal sense with various theories of nonunion
wage determination, the ability of such models to realistically
explain the macro outcomes that puzzled and challenged policy
makers can be questioned.
Trade Union Decline and Union Wage Effects in Australia
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 607 - October 2005
C. JEFFREY WADDOUPS
Union density in Australia fell precipitously in the 1990s.
This study investigates how union wage effects may have changed
as a result. The findings from 1993 data suggest that union/nonunion
wage differentials were very small, especially among workers
in high-density industries. By 2001 the overall union wage effect
had increased significantly; however, the union/nonunion wage
differential was no longer correlated with union density at
the industry level.
Unions and the Duration of Workers' Compensation Claims
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 625 - October 2005
MICHELE CAMPOLIETI
This paper examines the effect of union status on workers' compensation
claim duration in Canada. I find that unionized workers have
shorter claims than nonunionized workers and that relatively
little of this difference can be attributed to differences in
worker or job characteristics. I interpret this as being consistent
with a strong union effect that reduces union member's claim
duration. Plausible explanations for this finding and directions
for future research are also discussed.
Changing Administrative Practices in American Unions: A Research
Note
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 654 - October 2005
PAUL F. CLARK and LOIS S. GRAY
This note presents findings from the first longitudinal study
of the administrative practices of American unions. Our surveys,
conducted in 1990 and 2000, gathered information on the hiring,
human resource, and financial/strategic planning practices of
U.S.-based national and international unions. The results indicate
that American unions are changing their criteria for hiring
staff and moving toward more formal human resource policies
and systematic financial and strategic planning practices.
Opening the Black Box: The Internal Labor Markets of
Company X
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 659 - October 2005
MING-JEN LIN
This paper sets out to analyze an internal data set on a Taiwanese
auto dealer employing three distinct types of workers. The effects
of jobs and levels are positive on both the salary and bonus
equations, albeit smaller under a fixed effects than under OLS;
however, when factoring in individual fixed effects, the reductions
in the bonus equations are greater than those in the salary
equations. With changing economic conditions, any consequent
variations are greater in bonuses than in salaries, with the
most extreme variations being felt by higher ranking employees
than lower-level workers. Promotion premiums between levels
are smaller than the average differences in pay, and although
wage variations do exist within and between levels, the greater
effect is on bonuses rather than salaries. The variations in
both salaries and bonuses, defined by the coeffficient variations,
are also greater in those years when demand is high, as opposed
to years of low demand. Entry and exit behavior is observed
at all levels, although it is more likely to occur among the
lower levels of the hierarchy. Finally, we present strong evidence
in support of the cohort effect. Overall, our findings confirm
the prevalence of internal labor market (ILM) theories.
International Framework Agreements: A New Model for
Securing Workers Rights?
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 707 - October 2005
LONE RIISGAARD
A rapidly growing number of international unions are signing
international framework agreements with multinational enterprises
(MNEs), securing their commitment to respect fundamental workers'
rights. This article explores the agreement between the global
banana giant Chiquita and the Latin-American Coordination of
Banana Workers Unions (COLSIBA) signed in 2001. The study shows
how the banana unions employed innovative tactics of regional
coordination and of alliances with nongovernmental organizations
in the major consumer markets. Fieldwork on the implementation
of the agreement further reveals an overall poor use of the
agreement potential but also how the agreement was used as leverage
for local organizing activities. This article argues that such
international agreements show a promising way to defend and
advance workers rights within MNEs, creating space for union
organizing, collective bargaining, and social dialogue.
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Recent Publications
Internet Resources
Volume 44 Issue 4 Page 740 - October 2005
Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University
of California, Berkeley
TERENCE K. HUWE, JANICE KIMBALL
IIR Graduate Student Researchers, Fall 2005
The following students are working as Graduate Student Researchers,
and being supported by IIR during Fall 2005. Their faculty sponsors
or supervisors are also listed. Welcome to all!
Samuel Handlin (Ruth Collier, Political Science)
Sasha Hauswald (Arin Dube, IIR)
Naomi Hsu (Irene Bloemraad, Sociology)
Sara Levine (Veronica Carrizales, The Labor
Center)
Benjamin Lum (Veronica Carrizales, The Labor
Center)
Jason Meggs (Arin Dube, IIR)
Beth Pohlman (Carol Zabin, The Labor Center)
Jodi Short (Neil Fligstein, Sociology)
Jessica Sondheimer (Carol Vendrillo, CPER)
Manuel Vallee (Neil Fligstein, Sociology)
Gina Vickery (Michael Reich, Economics)
Zongshi Chen (Katie Quan, The Labor Center)
Cynthia Czerwin (Raahi Reddy, The Labor Center)
Lingyun Nie (David I. Levine, Haas School of
Business)
Ryan Rideau (Steven Pitts, The Labor Center)
Jane Rongerud, (Margaret Weir, Sociology)
Teresa Sharpe (Micahel Reich, Economics)
Margaret Salazar (Katie Quan, The Labor Center)
Claudia Sitgraves (Rucker Johnson, Goldman
School of Public Policy)
Lanwei Yang (Lloyd Ulman, Economics)
IIR Working Papers: The Top 20 from 2004-2005 by Number
of Downloads
The IIR Working Paper Series received a total of 23.383 downloads
from the eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/iir).
Here are the top 20 papers within the series by number of downloads,
for the 2004-2005 academic year.
Recent Authors, Please Note: if your latest
papers were added in the few months just past, they do not have
a twelve month history of downloads yet, even though traffic
may be steady.
Prospective IIR Faculty Authors: To submit a paper,
contact Terry Huwe.
Top 20 Papers by Download, 2004-2005
George Strauss
The Future of Human Resources Management: 1099
Jonathan S. Leonard and David I. Levine
Diversity, Discrimination, and Performance: 722
Christina L. Ahmadjian and James R. Lincoln
Keiretsu, Governance, and Learning: Case Studies in Change from
the Japanese Automotice Industry: 715
Charlan Nemeth and Jack Goncalo
Influence and Persuasion in Small Groups: 688
Barry Eichengreen
Unemployment in Interwar Britain: 572
Ximing Wu, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and Amos Golan
Effects of Government Policies on Income Distribution and Welfare:
564
James R. Lincoln and Christina Ahmadjian
Shukko (Employee Transfers) and Tacit Knowledge Exchange in
Japanese Supply Networks: The Electronic Industry Case: 556
Jeffrey A. Alexander, Joan R. Bloom, and Beverly A.
Nuchols
Nursing Turnover and Hospital Efficiency: An Organizational
Level Analysis
Clair Brown, Michael Reich, and David Stern
Becoming a High-Performance Work Organization: The Role of Security,
Employee Involvement, and Training: 532
George Strauss
HRM in the USA: 488
Lloyd Ulman and Knut Gerlach
An Essay on Collective Bargaining and Unemployment in Germany:
468
James R. Lincoln and Didier Guillot
Durkheim and Organizational Culture: 468
Joan R. Bloom, Jeffrey A. Alexander, and Beverly A.
Nuchols
Staffing Patterns and Hospital Efficiency: 407
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth, Marie Personnaz, Bernard Personnaz,
and Jack A. Goncalo
The Liberating Role of Conflict in Group Creativity: A Cross
Cultural Study: 404
Kathy Baylis and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Price Dispersion on the Internet: Good Firms and Bad Firms:
279
Barry Eichengreen and Tim Hatton
Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective: 276
Michael Kevane and David I. Levine
The Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia: 252
Barry Eichengreen
Unemployment and Underemployment in Historical Perspective:
Introduction: 333
Amos Golan, Larry S. Karp, and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Estimating a Mixed Strategy: United and American Airlines: 314
Trond Petersen and Thea Togstad
Getting the Offer: Sex Discrimination in Hiring: 313
IIR Unit News
Labor Center News
New Labor Center Reports
On Wednesday, August 31 the Labor Center held its annual Labor
Day Press Briefing, at which it released two new reports on
jobs and wages in California:
Are
We Recovering Yet? Jobs and Wages in California over the 2000-2005
Period
by Arindrajit Dube
In the face of job growth in California and the country, this
analysis nevertheless finds a slack labor market and wages taking
a turn for the worse. The soft labor market gives employers
little incentive to raise wages to attract and retain workers,
so it's no surprise that workers in California and the United
States have experienced a dip in inflation-adjusted wages in
the past year, making this the second year in a row that Californians
have seen their real earnings drop.
Black
Workers in the Bay Area: 1970-2000
by Steven C. Pitts and Steve Wertheim
The crisis of jobs in the Black community is most often thought
of as a crisis of unemployment, but Pitts and Wertheim find
that for African Americans in the Bay Area it is also a crisis
of low-wage employment. Significant percentages of Bay Area
Blacks work at jobs that do not provide wages and benefits to
properly raise a family—and things have only gotten worse
since 1970.
This report was produced with funding from the Akonadi Foundation
New Study on Child Health Care
The Labor Center (and collaborators) have published
"KIDS
AT RISK -- Declining Employer-Based Health Coverage in California
and the United States: A Crisis for Working Families.”
The report was written by Arindrajit Dube and Ken Jacobs of
the Labor Center, and Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein, and Phaedra
Ellis-Lamkins of Working Partnerships USA. Over the past five
years employer-based health care coverage for dependent children
has significantly decreased; without immediate action, this
trend will continue to the point that, by 2010, fewer than half
of California's children will be insured through a parent's
employer. For families in the lower half of the income spectrum,
only slightly more than one-quarter of children will be covered
in this way. As a result, there will be a significant shift
of health care costs from employers to working families and
the public sector, and new state funding will be required to
cover the cost of increased enrollment into public health programs.
This report was produced with funding from the California
Endowment.
Upcoming Labor Center Training
Building Effective Media Campaigns: Workshops for Unionists.
Designed for union communications directors, leaders, and organizers
who carry out media work; sign up for one or both days. “Developing
a Communications Strategy” will be on October 13 and “Delivering
Your Message to the Media” will be on October 20. Both
sessions are from 9:00 to 5:00 and will be held at the IIR building.
Fees are $200 for one session and $300 for both. For more information
and to register, visit http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/media/index.shtml
California Public Employee Relations
News
CPER is going to press with CPER No. 174 (October 2005).
The lead story ties in with CPER’s new Pocket Guide
to Due Process in Public Employment, due out in early November.
Keeping up with technology, there's also a main article on legal
rights for "bloggers." Other articles include a report
covers the wide-reaching decision Yanowitz v. L’Oreal,
which gives expanded protections under the Fair Employment and
Housing Act to employees who refuse to follow discriminatory
directives. The case involves a cosmetics company employee who
refused to obey her male supervisor’s order to fire a
female employee, because he did not find her sufficiently attractive.
Yanowitz's boss directed her to replace the associate with someone
“hot.”
Other stories cover how a felony conviction can bring forfeiture
of retirement funds, how state engineers are finally on the
road to parity, PERB's preliminary injunction again the U.C.
nurses strike...and more.
CPER Director Joins PERB Working Group
CPER Director Carol Vendrillo recently participated in the newly
reactivated advisory committee for the Public Employment Relations
Board. A group of about 10 met in Sacramento to offer advice
to the Board on a variety of procedural and substantive issues.
The group plans to meet every three months.
Carol also will be participating in a presentation at the 23rd
annual meeting of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the
State Bar of California. She and two other labor arbitrators
will be discussing issues that arise in public sector arbitration
disputes.
Institute of Industrial Relations Library News
Collection Planning News
Planning is continuing for the relocation of the Library’s
collection into renovated space on the basement level of 2521
Channing Way. The resulting reconfiguration will enable the
Library to provide improved facilities on the first floor. This
move—and its implications for IIR—will be covered
on October 10, as the topic of the next Faculty Seminar.
IIR FACULTY SEMINAR: “Physical” Space, “Digital”
Space: A New Vision for the Institute of Industrial Relations
Library
IIR Librarian Terry Huwe discusses current plans to reconfigure
the IIR Library in the context of systemwide goals and priorities
that are underway within the University of California Libraries.
These include the University’s commitment to the “Open
Access” movement; responding to the “crisis”
in scholarly communications; print and digital collection strategies
that extend the UC Libraries’ reach; and the growing importance
of “dim” and “dark” archives. From this
context, he will describe the Library’s plans for an “Electronic
Commons” and other community-enhancing features, which
will improve access to digital resources—while retaining
the core print collections. He concludes with some forecasts
about the roles libraries may play within research universities,
and how the IIR Library can advance the Institute’s overall
objectives as a “print-plus-digital” library.
IIR Library Blogging in the Spotlight
Terry presented a national Webcast on Weblogs in June 2005 for
the Association of College and Research Libraries, and he has
been asked to repeat the Webcast on October 18, 2005. The description
follows:
“Librarians have embraced blogging as
early adopters, and creativity is the order of the day. Blogging
is designed to be easy to learn, and anyone who can use a Web
browser can become a blogger in short order. But the question
remains: What lasting services should academic librarians be
crafting on a Weblog platform? How does Blogging connect with
the real-world issues of research libraries?
“Find
answers to these questions and learn more about the strategic
value of blogging by participating in "Blogging in the
Academic Research Library."
The IIR Library’s Blogs may be found on the Library home
page at http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library
New Acquisitions List Online
The Library’s latest acquisitions can be found at http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/acquisitions
Labor Project for Working Families News
Labor Project Puts the Spotlight on Preschool, Childcare
and Parent Involvement
The Labor Project for Working Families and the California
Federation of Teachers’ Early Childhood Education Project
have been working together to build labor’s support for
the education and care of young children and flexibility working
parents need to be engaged in their children’s lives.
This summer, LPWF and CFT visited delegates’ meetings
at Bay Area CLCs to speak about the benefits of preschool and
alert union members to efforts underway locally and at the state
level to achieve the goal of universal preschool, including
a measure which would fund preschool for all four-year-olds,
expected to be on the June 2006 ballot.
A majority of Labor Councils, the California Federation of Teachers,
Teamsters Joint Council 7, the Contra Costa Building and Construction
Trades Council, and UNITE/HERE Local 2, as well as others, have
passed the Resolution for Working Parents which calls for affordable
childcare programs, funding for a preschool for all system that
meets the needs of working parents as well as children including
quality full day care and professional salaries for the emerging
preschool workforce and flexible hours so parents can be involved
in their children’s development and schooling.
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Richard Speiglman, who has served as Research Specialist on
our California Statewide Early Care and Education Workforce
Study, completed his contract at the end of September. Data
Specialist Yuna Lee has returned to school at USC in Los Angeles,
and is continuing to work part-time with us from there. Our
thanks to Richard and Yuna for all their great work.
Construction on a new permanent wall, which will improve
the CSCCE offices and IIR foyer area, began Monday, Sept.
26th and is expected to continue for at least two weeks. CSCCE
staff will be working around the construction but will continue
to be available via telephone and email.
CAMPUS EVENTS
Center for Latin American Studies
Monday, October 10, 2005
2:pm, 2334 Bowditch Street
CLAS Conference Room
Financial Instability in Argentina: Microeconomic Evidence
From the Baring Crisis
Juan Flores, Professor of Economics and Economic
History at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid
In this talk, Prof. Flores will analyze Argentina’s historical
experience with financial crises. In particular, he will examine
the impact of the 1890 crisis, using new microeconomic evidence
drawn from bank archives. Implications will also be drawn for
the country’s subsequent experience with financial instability.
Center for Latino Policy Research
Friday, October 7, 2005
2547 Channing Way, Shorb House
Policing International Migration and "Post-national"
Citizenship at the Mexico-U.S. Boundary Region
Patrisia Macias Rojas (Ph.D. Candidate, Department
of Sociology, University of California at Berkley
Economics Department: Selected Seminars
Economics 251, Labor Economics Seminar
608-7 Evans Hall, Thursdays, 2-4
October 6, 2005
The Effects of Congressional District Size and Representative
Tenure on the Allocation of Federal Funds
Justin Falk, UC Berkeley
October 13, 2005
Kalena Cortes, University of California Berkeley
October 20, 2005
Sally Kwak, University of California Berkeley
October 27, 2005
Tanguy Brachet, University of California Berkeley
Economics 211, Economic History Seminar
597 Evans Hall, Mondays, 2:10-4:pm
October 24, 2005
Euro Jobs and Euro Productivity Since the 1960’s: Which
Institutions Really Matter?
Peter Lindert, UC Davis
Haas School of Business
OBIR 259
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Seminar
135 Cheit Hall, 4-5:30pm
Oct 5, Chris Ansell, Political Science Dept,
UC-Berkeley
Oct 12, Beth Bechky, Graduate School of Management,
UC Davis
Oct 19, Anand Swaminathan, Graduate School
of Management, UC Davis
Oct 26, Jennifer Berdahl, Rotman School of
Management, University of Toronto
Sociology Department
Sociology Colloquium Series
Blumer Room
402 Barrows Hall
Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
September 29, 2005
Do Babies Matter? The Effects of Family Formation on the Lifelong
Careers of Academic Men and Women
Mary-Ann Mason, UC Berkeley
October 6, 2005
Can Family-Friendly Policies Lessen The Family Gap in Wages
and Careers? Lessons from the Family-Friendly Corner of the
World
Trond Petersen, UC Berkeley
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do so shortly after August 26. We will cover relevant events
in future issues as these data become available on campus Web
sites.
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