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1. BOOKS  

(1)  Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras, eds. (2000).  Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice and Policy.  New York: ME Sharpe.  31 original research chapters.  Author/coauthor of:

  • Chapter 1, "Introduction," Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras, pp. 3-20.
  • Chapter 6, "Portrait of Nonunion Employee Representation in Canada: History, Law, and Contemporary Plans," Daphne Gottlieb Taras, pp. 121-148.
  • Chapter 11, "Contemporary Experience with the Rockefeller Plan: Imperial Oil's Joint Industrial Council," pp. 231-258.
  • Chapter 27, "My Experience with Unionization of Nonunion Employee Representation Plans in Canada, Reg Baskin, ECWU Pres., CEP VP (based on an interview with Taras), pp. 487-497.
  • Chapter 31, "Nonunion Employee Representation: Findings and Conclusions," Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras, pp. 527-557.

Book reviewed in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Personnel Psychology, Monthly Labor Review, Industrial Relations Journal, Relations Industrielles, Labor History, and Labor Studies Journal.

(2)  Morley Gunderson, Allen Ponak and Daphne G. Taras, eds.  (2001).  Union-Management Relations in Canada, 4th Edition.  Toronto: Addison-Wesley.  One of the top two Canadian IR texts.  Author/coauthor of:

  • Chapter 1, "Introduction to Canadian Industrial Relations," Daphne G. Taras, Allen Ponak and Morley Gunderson, pp. 1-24.
  • Chapter 2, "Understanding the Unionization Decision," Ann C. Frost and D. G. Taras, pp. 25-57.
  • Chapter 15, "Employee Involvement in the Workplace," Anil Verma and D. G. Taras, pp. 447-485.

(3)  Daphne G. Taras, James T. Bennett and Anthony Townsend, eds.  (2004)..  Information Technology and the World of Employment.  (based on 3 JLR symposia).  14 chapters.  Rutgers University Transaction Publishers.

  • Chapter 1, “Introduction” by Daphne G. Taras and James Bennett
  • Chapter 9 “Greedyassociates” by Daphne G. Taras and A. Gesser (reprinted from JLR)

(4)  Morley Gunderson, Allen Ponak and Daphne G. Taras, eds. (2005).  Union-Management Relations in Canada, 5th edition.  Author/co-author of Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and new chapter 6 (with Anil Verma) “Managing the High Involvement Workplace.”

(5) Morley Gunderson and Daphne G. Taras, eds. (2009).  Canadian Labour and Employment Relations.  Pearson.  Revision of previous editions.  Author/co-author of Chapters 1, 2 and 6; primary editor of 12 out of the 18 chapters.

(6) Kelly Williams-Whitt and Daphne G. Taras, eds. (2011, forthcoming).  Perspectives on Disability and Accommodation.  15 chapters.  National Institute for Disability Management and Research. 

 

2. JOURNAL SYMPOSIA

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett) (2007) of symposium on Public Policy and Labor Relations.  Journal of Labor Relations.   (4 article set, plus introduction). 

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett) (2003) of symposium on E-Voice and Individuals.  Journal of Labor Research.  24, 2 (4 article set, plus introduction).

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett) (2002) of symposium on E-Voice: Information and Power. Journal of Labor Research.  24, 1 (4 article set, plus introduction).

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett) (2002) of symposium on Technological Change and Employment Conditions in the Traditional Heavily Unionized Sectors.  Journal of Labor Research 23, 4 (6 article set, plus introduction).

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett).  (2002) of symposium on Technological Change and Industrial Relations in Journal of Labor Research 23, 3  (5 article set, plus introduction).

Invited Co-editor (with James Bennett) (2002) of symposium on E-Voice and Unions in Journal of Labor Research 23, 2.  (5 article set, plus introduction).

Invited Co-editor (with Bruce Kaufman) (1999) of symposium on Nonunion Employee Representation in Journal of Labor Research, 20, 1.  (5 article set, plus introduction).  

 

3.  REFEREED JOURNALS AND INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS

A. Tarik Timur, Daphne Taras and Allen Ponak. (2011/12 forthcoming)  “Do Pre-Existing Nonunion Representation Plans Matter when Employees Unionise?”  British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Bruce Kaufman and Daphne Taras. (2010) “NonUnion Employee Representation.”  In Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J. Gollan, Mick Marchington and David Lewin, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organisations, Oxford University Press.  Pages 258-285.

Kelly Williams and Daphne Taras.  “Disability and the Performance Paradox:  Can Social Capital Bridge the Divide?”  (2010), British Journal of Industrial Relations. 48: 534-559.

Daphne Taras (2010).  “Wallace Rolls the Dice: Micropolitics of Wallace and United Grain Growers,” in Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, The Courts at Work. Osgoode Hall. pages 357-391.

Daphne Taras (2011, forthcoming).  “The Evolution and Future of Innocent Absenteeism,” In Williams-Whitt and Taras, eds., Perspectives on Disability and Accommodation, NIDMAR.

Mark Thompson and Daphne Taras (2009).  "Canadian Employment Relations," in G. J. Bamber, R. D. Lansbury, and Nick Wailes, eds., International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies, 5th Edition.  Allen & Unwin, pages 91-118.

Daphne Taras (2008).  “The Marginalization of IR in Business Schools,” Ch. 7 in C.Whalen, ed., New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise (for Edward Elgar Publishing), pages 123-141.

Daphne Taras (2007).  “Reconciling Differences Differently: Employee Voice in Public Policymaking and Workplace Governance,” in a symposium honouring Paul Weiler for Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, at invitation of Elaine Bernard and John Trumpbour of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.  Vol. 28: 167-191.

Daphne G. Taras and Piers D. G. Steel (2007).  “We Provoked our Students to Unionize:  Deception Creates a Lasting IR Message,”  British Journal of Industrial Relations 45, 1: 179-198.

  • Featured in CBC Radio One’s national show Freestyle, August 30/06
  • Featured on Wild Rose Forum, CBC, August 21/07
  • 2nd or 3rd most downloaded articles in BJIR history, cumulative.
  • Adopted as key reading at University of Toronto and Queen’s graduate courses

Daphne G. Taras and Bruce E. Kaufman (2006).  "Nonunion Employee Representation in North America: Diversity, Controversy and Uncertain Future,” Industrial Relations Journal 37, 5: 513-542.

Daphne G. Taras (2006). “Nonunion Representation and Employer Intent:  How Canadian Courts and Labour Boards Determine the Legal Status of Nonunion Plans”  Socio-Economic Review 4, 2: 321-336. Oxford University Press.

Mark Thompson and Daphne Taras (2004).  "Canadian Employment Relations," in G. J. Bamber, R. D. Lansbury, and Nick Wailes, eds., International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies, 4th Edition.  Allen & Unwin, pp. 91-118. 

  • Spanish translation in Analisis Laboral (25th anniversary volume; a Latin American publication belonging to the Club of Labour Law Journals).  “Relaciones Industriales Candienses,” Vol. 27, No. 303 (September 2002), pages VII-XI.
  • Reprinted in Roger Blanpain and Luis Aparicio Valdez (2003).  Labour Relations in the Asia-Pacific Countries.  The Hague:  Kluwer Law International.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras and Thomas A. Grossman Jr. (2003). "Stay or Switch: An Organizational Behaviour and Management Science Joint Classroom Exercise," INFORMS Transactions on Education Vol. 3, No. 2.  http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/ite/Vol3No2/TarasGrossman/ 

Daphne Taras and A. Gesser, (2003). "How New Lawyers Use E-Voice to Drive Firm Compensation: The ‘Greedy Associates’ Phenomenon."  Journal of Labor Research.  24: 1: 9-29.

Allen Ponak, Yonathan Reshef and Daphne Gottlieb Taras (2003), "Alberta: Industrial Relations in a Conservative Climate," in M. Thompson, J. Rose, and A. Smith, eds., Beyond the National Divide: Regional Dimensions of Industrial Relations.  McGill-Queen’s University Press.  Pages 267-306.

Daphne G. Taras (2003).  "Employee Representation and Employee Involvement," in Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond. Armonk, NY:  M.E. Sharpe.  Pages 293-329.

Daphne Taras (2002).  "Alternative Forms of Employee Representation and Labour Policy," Canadian Public Policy 28, 1: 105-116.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras and Allen Ponak (2001/2002).  "The Importance of the Agency Shop Security in Explaining Canada-US Divergence," Journal of Labor Research symposium on the Decline of Private Sector Unions in the US (2001), Vol. 22, 3: 541-569. 

  • Reprinted in J. T. Bennett & B. E. Kaufman, eds., The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States.  M.E. Sharpe (2002), pp. 260-291.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras and Allen Ponak (2001).  "Union Security in Canada," in The Internal Governance and Organizational Effectiveness of Labor Unions, edited by S. Estreicher, H. C. Katz and B. E. Kaufman.  Kluwer Press. pp. 229-248.

Kelly Williams and Daphne Gottlieb Taras (2000).  "Reinstatement in Arbitration: The Grievors' Perspective," Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations 55, 2: 227-249.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (2000).  "Defective Group Decisions: Diagnosis and Intervention in Situations of Misguided Agreement," in Robert T. Golembiewski, ed., Handbook of Organizational Consultation, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 951-959.  Article reprinted from first edition, 1993.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1999).  "Evolution of Nonunion Employee Representation in Canada," Journal of Labor Research, 20, 1: 31-51.

Bruce Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1999).  "Nonunion Employee Representation: An Introduction," Journal of Labor Research, 20, 1: 1-10.

Daphne G. Taras and Allen Ponak (1999).  "Petro‑Canada:  A Model of Union Cooperation in the Canadian Petroleum Industry," in Contract and Commitment: Employment Relations in the New Economy, edited by A. Verma and R. Chaykowski, Queen's University IRC Press.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras and Jason Copping (1998).  "The Transition from Formal Nonunion Representation to Unionization: A Contemporary Case," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 52, 1: 22-44.  (Anbar Citation of Excellence for Research: Highest Quality Rating)

  • Reprinted as “Employee Discontent at Imperial Oil” in Human Resource Management International Digest. Bradford: Mar/Apr 1999. Vol. 7, 2; p. 27-30.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1998).  "Contemporary Experience with the Outlawed Rockefeller Plan," in S. Estreicher, ed., Employee Representation: Proceedings of New York University's 50th Annual Conference on Labor.  Kluwer Press.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1997). "Why NonUnion Representation is Legal in Canada," Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations 52, 4: 761-780.

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1997), "Managerial Objectives and Wage Determination in the Canadian Petroleum Industry," Industrial Relations (Berkeley) Volume 36, 2: 178-205.  (Anbar Citation of Excellence for Research: Highest Quality Rating)

Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1997), "Collective Bargaining Regulation in Canada and the US: Divergent Cultures, Divergent Outcomes," in Bruce Kaufman, ed., Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship, 1997 research volume for the Industrial Relations Research Association's 50th anniversary. 

Daphne Gottlieb Taras and David Taras (1996), "Who Shall Speak of the Pain?  Frame Violations and the Making of Public Controversy,"  Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies Volume 2: 1-33. 

Allen Ponak and Daphne Gottlieb Taras (1996).  "What is Grievable Discipline," in Labour Arbitration Yearbook, edited by W. Kaplan, J. Sack and M. Gunderson, Butterworths.

Frederick J. Fletcher and Daphne G. Taras (1994).  "Canadian Mass Media:  Private Responsibility, Public Accountability," Canadian Politics in the 1990s, 4th Edition, Nelson.

Daphne G. Taras (1993).  "Proceed with Caution in Crises of Agreement (Please!)," in Handbook of Organizational Consultation, R. T. Golembiewski, ed., New York: Marcel Dekker.

Daphne G. Taras (1992). "The Duty to Accommodate Disabled Employees," Relations industrielles/Industrial relations 47, 4: 709‑728.

Daphne G. Taras (1991). "Breaking the Silence:  Differentiating Crises of Agreement,"  Public Administration Quarterly, symposium on Organizational Development, Winter, pp. 401‑418.

Frederick Fletcher and Daphne G. Taras (1990). "Images and Issues:  The Mass Media and Politics in Canada," in Whittington and Williams, eds., Canadian Politics in the 1990s, 3rd Ed., Nelson, pp. 221‑246.

David Taras and Daphne G. Taras (1987). "The Canadian Media, Domestic Interest Groups, and Middle East Reporting: The Effects of Structural Bias," International Journal XLII, pp. 536‑558.  

David Taras and Daphne G. Taras (1986/87).  "Media Imperatives and Middle East Reporting," Middle East Focus, Winter, pp. 6‑10.

Frederick Fletcher and Daphne G. Taras (1986). "The Mass Media and Politics:  An Overview," in Whittington and Williams, Canadian Politics in the 1980s, 2nd Ed., Methuen, pp. 193‑228.

Paul M. Evans and Daphne G. Taras (1986).  "Looking (Far) East: Parliament and Canada‑China Relations, 1949‑82," Parliament and Canadian Foreign Policy, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Spring, pp. 66‑100. 

Frederick Fletcher and Daphne Gottlieb (1981). "The Mass Media and the Political Process," in Whittington and Williams, eds., Canadian Politics in the 1980s.  Methuen.