Introduction

Volume 26 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains six papers featuring research on several aspects of employment relations, including a historical analysis of the first trade association of commercial printers, the prospects for free riding in public sector unions following a key US Supreme Court decision, the increasing stratification of college and university faculty, procedural and distributive justice aspects of sexual harassment arbitrations in unionized settings, the effects of third-party neutral sourcing and qualifications on employment alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice in large companies, and the measurement of democratic spillover from workplaces to politics. Consistent with previous AILR volumes, these papers contain a variety of disciplinary perspectives and quantitative and qualitative research methods. Also consistent with previous AILR volumes, some of these papers were originally presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) annual meeting.