Harry Charles Katz

People/Faculty
Professor
Global Labor and Work
Director, Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution
Scheinman Institute
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140 Garden Ave
454 ILR Research Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

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+1 (607) 255-0720
Overview

Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. After teaching at MIT he came to the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1985.

Areas of Expertise

Automotive
Contract negotiations
Industrial relations systems
Industry Studies
Labor relations
Labor-management cooperation
Public Sector
Telecommunications
Wage systems, gainsharing, and incentives
Work Teams/Work Process Redesign

Other expertise

Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, Worker Participation, Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining, Industrial and Work Restructuring, Worker Training

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , , & . . A fragmented and heavily privatized dispute resolution system: The United States. Industrial Relations Journal, 54(4-5), 304-320.
  • , & . . Employment Arbitration, Litigation, or an EEOC Claim – Which Route Is Better? Research Evidence and a Policy Proposal. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly.
  • , , & . . The Revitalization of the CWA: Integrating Collective Bargaining, Political Action, and Organizing. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 56(4), 573-589.
  • , , & . . How Human Resource Practices and Industrial Relations Institutions Affect Managerial Pay. Personnel Psychology, 54(4), 903-934.
  • . . Introduction to the Symposium on Industry Studies of Wage Inequality. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 54(2A), 399-401.
  • . . Changing Patterns of Employee and Union Participation. Japan Labor Bulletin, 18-21.
  • , & . . Convergences and Divergences in Employment Systems. Revista Latinoamerica de Estudios del Trabajo, 4(8), 5-28.
  • . . Industrial Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry: An Illustration of Increased Decentralization and Diversity. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 8(2), 192-220.
  • , , & . . Introduction to 'Symposium on Employment Relations Reform in the World Automobile Industry'. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 8(2), 179-191.
  • . . The Decentralization of Collective Bargaining: A Literature Review and Comparative Analysis. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 47(1), 3-22.
  • , & . . Profit Sharing and Auto Workers' Earnings: The United States vs. Canada. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 42(3), 513-530.
  • . . Training and Workforce Preparedness: Introduction. ILR Report, 28(1), 4-6.
  • , & . . Job Classifications and Plant Performance in the Auto Industry. Industrial Relations, 29(1), 111-118.
  • , , & . . Response to Hogler's Review of 'The Transformation of American Industrial Relations'. Industrial Relations Law Journal, 10(1), 144-147.
  • . . Work Restructuring: Introduction. ILR Report, 26(1), 4-5.
  • , , & . . Response to ILLR Symposium Reviews of 'The Transformation of American Industrial Relations'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 41(3), 451-455.
  • , , & . . Industrial Relations and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1987(3), 685-715.
  • . . Industrial Relations: A New System Emerges. Work in America, 12(9).
  • , & . . Introduction to the Issue on 'Flexible Pay Systems'. ILR Report, 24(1), 4-6.
  • , , & . . Assessing the Effects of Industrial Relations Systems and Efforts to Improve the Quality of Working Life on Organizational Effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 28(3), 509-526.
  • , & . . Industrial Relations and Industrial Adjustment in the Car Industry. Industrial Relations, 24(3), 295-315.
  • . . The 1984 GM-UAW Settlement: Breakthrough or More of the Same?. Personnel, 62(1), 16-24.
  • . . The U.S. Automobile Collective Bargaining System in Transition. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 22(2).
  • . . Collective Bargaining in 1982: A Turning Point in Industrial Relations?. Compensation Review, 16(1), 38-49.
  • . . A Study of Regulatory Intervention in Labor-Management Relations: School Desegregation in Los Angeles, Dade County and Boston. Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 12(4), 295-309.
  • , , & . . Industrial Relations Performance, Economic Performance and Quality of Working Life Programs: An Inter-Plant Analysis. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 37(1), 3-17.
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining, Work Organization and Worker Participation: The Return to Plant Level Bargaining. Labor Law Journal, 524-530.
  • . . Assessing the New Auto Agreements. Sloan Management Review, 23(4), 57-63.
  • , & . . Interest Arbitration, Outcomes, and the Incentive to Bargain: The Role of Risk Preferences. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 33(1), 55-63.
  • . . The Municipal Budgetary Response to Changing Labor Costs: The Case of San Francisco. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 32(4), 506-519.
  • . . Municipal Pay Determination: The Case of San Francisco. Industrial Relations, 18(1), 44-58.

Book Chapters

  • , & . . The United States. In International and Comparative Employment Relations. Allen-Unwin.
  • . . How Collective Bargaining Works in the US. (pp. 40). ILO.
  • . . The Locus of Control of HR Inside MNC's Global Supply Chains. In Book in honor of Tayo Fashyin. ILO.
  • , & . . Workers' and Union Participation at US Workplaces. In Palgrave Handbook of Workers' Participation at the Plant Level. Palgrave Press.
  • , & . . Employment Relations in the United States. In International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and Change, 5th ed.. (pp. 62-87). Allen & Unwin.
  • , , & . . Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects. In Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century. Cornell University Press.
  • . . Whither the American Labor Movement. In Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century. Cornell University Press.
  • , & . . The Collective Bargaining System in the United States: The Legacy and the Lessons. (pp. 145-161). School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
  • . . Downsizing and Employment Insecurity. In Change at Work. Oxford University Press.
  • . . Introduction and Comparative Overview. In Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations World-wide. Cornell University Press.
  • , , , , , & . . 10. The Academic Departments. In The ILR School at Fifty: Voices of the Faculty, Alumni & Friends. (pp. 165-194). Cornell University.
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining in the U.S. Auto Assembly Sector. In Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector. (pp. 181-224). Industrial Relations Research Association.
  • . . The Transformation of U.S. Industrial Relations - An Overview of Recent Developments. In Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America. (pp. 1-18). Institute of Collective Bargaining, NYSSILR.
  • , , & . . Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining. In Impediments to Competitive Labor Markets: An Overview of Policy and Research Issues. World Bank.
  • , , & . . Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining: Suggestions for Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In Double Shift: The Transformation of Work in Post-Socialist and Post-Industrial Societies. (pp. 187-208). M. E. Sharpe.
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations: The Causes and Consequences of Diversity. In Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations. (pp. 43-76). Industrial Relations Research Association.
  • , & . . Industrial Restructuring and Human Resource Preparedness in Unionized Settings. In Workplace Turbulance. (pp. 124-139). Oxford University Press.
  • . . La Ristructturazione Delle Relazioni Industriali Negli Starti Uniti (A translation of 'The Restructuring of Industrial Relations in the United States'). In Iniziativa Manageriale E Partecipazione In Un Confronto Modiate. (pp. 155-168). SINNEA.
  • , , & . . Strategic Choice and Industrial Relations Theory: An Elaboration. In The Future of Industrial Relations. (pp. 104-115). Institute of Collective Bargaining, NYSSILR.
  • , , & . . A Reaction to the Debate. In Reflections on the Transformation of Industrial Relations. (pp. 189-201). IMLR Press/Rutgers University.
  • . . The Restructuring of Work and Industrial Relations in the US. In The Transformation of Industrial Relations?. ENI.
  • . . Business and Labor Relations Strategies in the U.S. Automobile Industry: The Case of the General Motors Corporation. In The Future of Work in the Automobile Industry (Die Zukunft der Arbeit in der Automobilindustrie). (pp. 249-263). Verlay.
  • . . Policy Debates Over Work Reorganization in North American Unions. In New Technology and Industrial Relations: International Experiences. (pp. 220-232). Basil Blackwell.
  • . . Collective Bargaining in the U.S. Auto Industry. In Collective Bargaining in American Industry. (pp. 13-53). D.C. Health.
  • . . Recent Developments in U.S. Auto Labor Relations. In Between Fordism and Flexibility. (pp. 282-304). Polity Press/Basil Blackwell.
  • . . The Historical Evolution of U.S. Collective Bargaining. In Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. Little Brown Inc..
  • , & . . Labor Relations and Employment Adjustment. In The Future of the Automobile. MIT Press.
  • , , & . . Worker Participation and American Unions. In Challenges and Choices for American Labor. MIT Press.
  • . . Collective Bargaining in the U.S. Auto Industry: Problems and Prospects. In Industrial Relations in the World Automobile Industry - The Experience of the 1970s. (pp. 277-305). Science Center, International Institute of Management.
  • , & . . Pay Determination in Municipal Building Department Under Unionism and Civil Service. In The Economics of Municipal Labor Markets. Institute of Industrial Relations, UCLA, Monograph and Research Series No. 33.
  • . . The Boston Teachers Union and the Desegregation Process. In Public Sector Labor Relations: Analysis and Readings. (pp. 490-500). Horton and Daughters Pub..
  • , & . . An Essay on Subsidized Employment in the Public Sector. In Job Creation Through Public Service Employment. National Commission on Manpower Policy.

Conference Proceedings

  • . . The Expansion and Implications of Various Forms of Collective Representation.
  • , & . . Report on a Study of Training, Adjustment Policies and the Restructuring of Work in Large Unionized Firms.
  • . . Wage Development in the Auto Industry: A Perspective on the Upcoming Negotiations.
  • , & . . Changing Work Practices and Productivity in the Auto Industry: A U.S. - Canada Comparison.
  • . . Work Organization and Labor Market Structure: Where is the U.S. Heading.
  • , , & . . U.S. Industrial Relations in Transition: A Summary Report.
  • . . Quality of Working Life Impacts on Plant Level Industrial Relations and Economic Performance.
  • , & . . Efficiency and Equity Considerations in State and Local Government Wage Determination.
  • . . Ethnic Diversity and Public Sector Labor Relations.

Textbooks

  • , & . . An Introduction to US Collective Bargaining and Inductrial Relations. ILR Press.
  • , , & . . Labor Relations in a Globalizing World: An Introduction Focused on Emerging Countries. ILR Press.

Books

  • , , & . . An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations. McGraw Hill Irwin.
  • . . Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the Twenty First Century (co-editor). Cornell University Press.
  • . . The Internal Governance and Organizational Effectiveness of Trade Unions: Essays in Honor of George Brooks (co-editor). Kluwer Law International.
  • , & . . Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems. Cornell University Press.
  • , , , , , & . . Change at Work. Oxford University Press.
  • , , & . . Industrial Relations Reform in S. Korea: Principles and Policies in IR Systems Design. Korea Labor Institute.
  • . . Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America (co-editor). Institute of Collective Bargaining, NYSSILR.
  • , , & . . The Transformation of American Industrial Relations. ILR Press.
  • , , & . . Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining. World Bank, PHREE.
  • . . The Future of Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the Second Bargaining Group Conference. Institute of Collective Bargaining, NYSSILR.
  • , & . . Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations. Irwin Inc..
  • . . Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry. MIT Press.
  • . . The Impact of Public Employee Unions on City Budgeting and Employee Remuneration: A Case Study of San Francisco. Garland Publishing.
  • , , & . . Worker Participation and American Unions: Threat or Opportunity?. W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Research Reports

  • , , , & . . Telecommunications 2004: Strategy, HR Practices & Performance.
  • , , , & . . Telecommunications 2000: Strategy, HR Practices & Performance.
  • , & . . Personnel Planning in the U.S. Auto Industry.
  • . . Labor Relations and Public School Desegregation in Los Angeles, Dade County and Boston.

Book Reviews

  • . . Review of 'Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry' edited by Steve Babson.
  • . . Review of 'Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation and Public Policy' by Paul Osterman.
  • . . Review of 'Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL' by Mike Parker.
  • . . Review of 'Collective Bargaining and the Decline of the United Mine Workers' by Charles R Perry.
  • . . Review of 'What Do Unions Do?' by Richard B Freeman and James L. Medoff.
  • . . Review of 'Unions in Postindustrial Society' by John Schmidman.

Professional activities

  • The Effects of the Pandemic on US Labor Relations. Presented to Israel Labor Law Society. virtual. 2021.

Honors and Awards

  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Sydney.
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