Publications & Other Resources

John P. Beck

Books

Richard N. Block, John P. Beck and Daniel H. Kruger, Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990's: Hearings of the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, 1993-94, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1996.

Articles (Refereed)

Karen Klomparens, John P. Beck, R. Sam Larson and Julie Brockman, "Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts in Graduate Education" in Journal for Higher Education Strategists Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring, 2004)

Richard N. Block, John P. Beck, and A. Robin Olson, "Low Profile/High Potential: A Look at Grievance Mediation", Dispute Resolution Journal, 51 (October 1996)

Steven P. Vallas and John P. Beck, "The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility in American Manufacturing" Social Problems, 43 (August 1996) Also anthologized in Amy Wharton, ed., Working in America, 2nd edition ( Mayfield, 2001) among others.

"Nashville Cab: Lady Driver" and "Nashville Cab: The Passenger" The Seattle Review 17 (special issue on work) (Spring/Summer 1994)

John P. Beck and Janet Schneider, "None of Us Alone Knows as Much as All of Us Together: Participatory Learning for Worker Participation" Labor Studies Journal, 8 (Winter 1984)

Other Articles

"The Trade Union Movement in South Africa: Tasks Facing Labor Educators" Radical History Review 72 (Fall 1998)

"Homegrown" (Robert Askew and the Northern Mineral Mineworkers Union, 1895 - 1904) Michigan History, 79 (September/October 1995)

"Highlander Folk School's Junior Union Camps, 1940-1944", Labor's Heritage, 5 (Spring 1993)

"They Fought for Their Work: Upper Peninsula Iron Ore Trimmer Wars", Michigan History, 73 (January / February 1989)

Book Chapters

Thomas Walker, John P. Beck and Yvonne Lockwood, Entry on "Workers Cultural Traditions" in Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Edited by James Leary, Greenwood (forthcoming)

Karen Klomparens and John P. Beck, "Michigan State University's Conflict Resolution Program: Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts " in Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty Edited by Don Wulff and Ann E. Austin, 2004, Jossey-Bass

Entry on "Highlander Folk School" in Encyclopedia of the American Labor Movement. Edited by Robert Weir and James P. Hanlon, 2004, Greenwood

"Discussion on Values" in The Paradigm Dialog Edited by Egon G. Guba, 1990, Sage Publications

Biographical sketches of "Ella Reeve Bloor", "William D. Haywood", and "Charles Ruthenburg" in Biographical Dictionary of the American Left, Edited by Bernard K. Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr, 1986, Greenwood Press

Reviews

Review of "Breaking the Silence: The AFT-Africa AIDS Campaign" (audio-visual section) in Labor Studies Journal 30 (Winter 2006)

Review of Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860 By Peter Way in The Michigan Historical Review 21 (Spring 1995)

Review of Cradle to Grave: Live, Work and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, by Larry Lankton in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 525 (January 1993)

Review of Lake Erie Fisherman: Work, Tradition and Identity, by Timothy C. Lloyd and Patrick B. Mullen in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 515 (May 1991)

Review of The Lobster Gangs of Maine by James M. Acheson, Labor Studies Journal, 15 (Summer 1990)

Review of Starting Out: Class and Community in the Lives Of Working Class Youth by Victoria Anne Steinitz and Ellen Rachel Solomon, Harvard Educational Review, 58 (November 1988)

Julie L. Brockman, Ph.D.

Brockman, J.L. & Dirkx, J.D. (2006). Learning to become a machine operator: The dialogical relationship between context, self and content. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 17(2), 199-221.

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2006).  The Machine Operator’s Signature: Formation of Worker Self-Identity in Problem Solving Contexts. Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development North American Conference (Columbus, Ohio).

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2005).  Learning to become a machine operator: The dialogical relationship between context, self and content.  Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development International Conference (Estes park, CO).

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2005).  Learning Through Work: What Machine Operators “Come to Know” through Everyday Problem Solving. Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (24th, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI)

Brockman, J.L. and Dirkx, J.M. (2004).  The Work, the Worker and the Machine: Learning through Communities of Practice in Manufacturing. Proceedings of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (23rd, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Klomparens, K., Beck, J., Larson, R.S., and Brockman, J. (2004). Setting expectations and resolving conflicts in graduate education,  Journal for Higher Education Strategy, 2(1), 21-37.

Polzin, M.J. and Brockman, J.L. (2002).  Focus on internal partnerships: A framework for implementing community policing in a unionized department”. In M. Morash and J. K. Ford (Eds.), The move to community policing: Making change happen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Polzin, M.J and Brockman, J.L. (1999) A labor-management approach to community policing, The Journal of Community Policing, 2 (2).

Polzin, M.J and Brockman, J.L. (1999) What do police unions want?  Observations about building an infrastructure for involving unions in community policing, The Journal of Community Policing, 1, (1).

Brockman, J.L., Polzin, M.J. and Winthrop, D. (1998) Three-dimensional planning grid: A tool for planning multifaceted projects and change efforts. Executive Summary Series, Regional Community Policing Institute of Michigan, Michigan State University.

Brockman, J.L., Polzin, M.J. and Winthrop, D. (1998) A joint labor-management    approach to implementing community policing.  Executive Summary Series, Regional Community Policing Institute of Michigan, Michigan State University.

Brockman, J.L. (Green). (1986) Diffusion of innovations: The adoption and non-adoption of an information line system. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, The Ohio State University.

Gibbs, J., Clark, P., Joseph, J., Green (Brockman), J., Goodrick, T., and Makowski, D. (1986). Relations between moral judgement, moral courage, and field independence, Child Development, 57, 185-193.

Michelle Kaminski, Ph.D.

Block, R., Friedman, S., Kaminski, M., and Levin, A., Eds. (2006).  Justice on the job: Perspectives on the erosion of collective bargaining in the United States. Edited volume to be published by the Upjohn Institute.

Kaminski, M. (2005) Telling their own stories: Using narrative to teach women’s leadership. Perspectives on Work, 9 (1) 16-17.

Simpson, P.A. and Kaminski, M. (2005) Rising income inequality in a time of plenty: The influence of micro-justice standards and group membership on micro-justice perceptions. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 17(1), 47-61.

Kaminski, M. (2004) Running into the wind: The experience of discrimination in ducation, In The psychology of prejudice and discrimination, Volume 3: Bias based on gender and sexual orientation, Jean Lau Chin, Ed. pp. 93-111.  Westport, CT: Praeger Press, Inc.

Kaminski, M. (2004) That’s why they call it work.  The Minnesota Review, ns 61-62, 149-155.

Kaminski, M. (2003). Teaching leadership to union women: The use of stories. Labor Studies Journal. 28 (2) 67-77.

Hertenstein, E., & Kaminski, M. (2002) Victory in the heartland: AFSCME Council 31 ins at Beverly Farm. Working USA. 6 (2) 103-110.

Kaminski, M. (2001) Unintended consequences: Organizational practices and their impact on workplace safety and productivity. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 6 (2) 127-138.

Kaminski, M., Kaufman, J.S., Graubarth, R. & Robins, T.G. (2000). How do people become empowered?  A case study of union activists.” Human Relations, 53 (10), 357-1383.

Kaminski, M. (1999).  New forms of work organization and their impact on the grievance procedure. In Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace, Adrienne Eaton & Jeffrey Keefe, Eds. pp. 219-246. Madison, WI:  Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA).

Kaminski, M. (1998).  The union role in the team concept:  A case study. In Confronting change:  Auto workers and lean production in North America, Huberto Juarez Nunez & Steve Babson, Eds. pp. 157-172. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press.

Landsbergis, P.A, Adler, P.S., Babson, S., Johnson, J., Kaminski, M.,  Lessin, N., MacDuffie, J.P., Nishiyama, K., Parker, S., & Richardson, C. (1998). Lean production and worker health:  A discussion.” New Solutions, 8 (4), 499-524.

Kaminski, M., Bertelli, D., Moye, M. & Yudken, J. (1996).  Making change happen: Six cases of unions and companies transforming their workplaces.  Washington, DC:  Work and Technology Institute.

Kaminski, M. Graubarth, R, & Mock, A. (1995). Using grant-based training as a vehicle for lasting change:  Strengthening the role of local health and safety activists.  New Solutions. Winter 1995, 6-14.

Robins, T.G., Hugentobler, M., Kaminski, M., & Klitzman, S. (1994). A joint labor-management hazard communication training program:  A case study in worker health and safety training.  Occupational Medicine:  State of the Art Reviews, 9, 135-145.

Robins, T.G., Hugentobler, M., Kaminski, M., & Klitzman, S. (1990). Implementation of the federal hazard communication standard:  Does training work?  Journal of Occupational Medicine, 32, 1133-40.

Michael Polzin, Ed.D.

Polzin, M. J and Delord, R. G. Working Together: A Police Labor-Management Practitioner’s Guide to Implementing Change, Making Reforms and Handling Crises.  Accepted for publication by  U.S. Department of Justice; publication anticipated 2006.

Havercamp, M and Polzin, M. Getting Agreement: A Community Visioning and Living Action Planning Process (CVLAPP). University of Nevada Reno Cooperative Extension Special Publication 05-24. Fall 2005. Also available on the web at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/SP05/SP0524.pdf

Polzin, M.J. The Labor Movement and Social Welfare. In Herrick, J.M. and Stuart, P. (Eds.)Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.

Polzin, M. and Berg, P. Health Care: The Case Of Sparrow Health Systems, Lansing, Michigan and Professional Employees Council of Sparrow Hospital/Michigan Nurses Association. In Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies. Richard N. Block (Editor). W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003.

Polzin, M.J.  A Labor-Management Approach to Community Policing. In NavigatingDangerous Waters: Surviving in the Real World of Police Labor-Management Relations.  Accepted for publication by U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Policing Services, Fall 2003.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J. L., Focus on Internal Partnerships: A Framework for Implementing Community Policing in a Unionized Department. In The Transformation to Community Oriented Policing: Strategies for Change, Morash, M. and Ford, J.K. eds. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002.

Polzin, M.J. Review of: Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America’s Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929 - 1981 by Amy Sue Bix.   Labor Studies Journal.  Volume 26, No. 2, Summer 2001.

Block, R., Berg, P., Moore, M. , and Polzin, M.  Collective Bargaining, Employment Security, and Firm Competitiveness in the United States. Paper presented at the Industrial Relations Research Association Annual Meeting 2001, New Orleans, LA.  January 2001.

Polzin, M.J. Building and Maintaining Labor-Management Partnerships: Training Internal Third Party Facilitators. In Local 2089 (AFGE) Journal (representing U.S. Department of Labor Employees). Winter 2000.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J.L., A Labor-Management Approach to Community Policing.  The Journal of Community Policing, Volume 1, No. 2, Autumn 1999.

McHugh, P., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. and Polzin, M. J., Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Union Influence and Stakeholder Interests, Economic and Industrial Democracy, November 1999, Volume 20, pp. 535 B 560.

Block, R. N., Berg, P., Moore, M., and Polzin, M. J., The Contribution of Collective Bargaining to Employment Protection or Creation and Competitiveness, a study supported by the International Labor Organization under contract number 5453.  October 1999.

Polzin, M. J. and Brockman, J. L., What Do Police Unions Want? Observations about Building an Infrastructure for Involving Unions in Community Policing, The Journal of Community Policing, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1999.

Polzin, M. J., Review of Employee Suggestion Systems: Boosting Productivity and Profits by Bassford, R. L. and Martin, C. L.  in Human Resource Planning, Volume 21.3: 1998.

McHugh, P., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. and Polzin, M. J., Ways in Which Structure and Process Matter: Employee Influence, Plan Design and Communication in ESOP Companies. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Boston, August 1997.

Polzin, M. J., Factors that Motivate Workers to Participate in Workplace Decision Making. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Temple University, November 1990

Polzin, M. J., A Study of Employee Ownership in Michigan, Michigan Governor's Office for Job Training, Lansing, Michigan, October 1990.

Polzin, M. J. and Abramowitz, A., A Union Member's Guide to Corporate Finance.  Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 1987