Adrienne Eaton,
Chair, Labor Studies and Employmnet Relations Department
Director of Labor Extension

Bio:

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, industrial relations) has three current, long-term streams of research. The first of those streams concerns union participation in management decision-making and the relationship of unions to direct forms of worker participation and has been published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labor Studies Journal, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations and several book chapters.  Most recently, she is co-author along with Tom Kochan (MIT) and others of three research reports on the Kaiser Permanente Labor-Management Partnership.   The second research stream concerns the negotiation, effectiveness and outcomes of neutrality and card check agreements.  This research has been published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Perspectives on Work, in a book chapter, and in technical reports.  The third stream concerns the unionization of managerial workers, in particular, public sector supervisors.  This research has been published in Labor Studies Journal and in book chapters.   Prof. Eaton currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, a position she has held since September 2002.  She is also a member of the editorial board for Labor Studies Journal.

Published works include:

• Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky.  “Dancing with the Smoke Monster: Employer Motivations for Negotiating Neutrality and Card Check Agreements,”  in "Justice on the Job:  Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States, ed. by R. Block, S. Friedman, M. Kaminski, and A. Levin.  Upjohn,  2006.
• Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky. "Union Organizing Under Neutrality and Card Check Agreements”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 2001, V. 55, No. 1, pp. 42-59.
• Adrienne E. Eaton and Saul A. Rubinstein, “Tracking Local Unions Involved in Managerial Decision-Making”, Labor Studies Journal, Summer 2006, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 1-30.

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Contact: aeeaton@rci.rutgers.edu