Chapter 1: Introduction

Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight chapters highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. In particular, the chapters deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation, and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces. Consistent with previous AILR volumes, the chapters in Volume 24 reflect a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including case studies, survey, interviews, historiography, theory building, and longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs and analysis. These chapters also reflect a global perspective on workplace issues. The specific topics of these chapters include social construction of workarounds, workplace dispute resolution, employee involvement (EI) at Delta Air Lines, voice and empowerment practice in an Australian manufacturing company, democracy and union militancy and revitalization, adapting union administrative practices to new realities, pro-social and self-interest motivations for unionism and implications for unions as institutions, and high performance work systems and union impacts on employee turnover intention in China.