James Scoville

James Scoville

Professor Emeritus

Department of Work and Organizations

Education

AB 1961
Economics Oberlin College

AM 1963
Economics Harvard Univ.

PhD 1965
Economics Harvard Univ.

Expertise

International and comparative industrial relations

Labor markets in developing countries

Selected Works

"Moral Philosophy, Business Ethics, and the Employment Relationship," with John Budd in Budd and Scoville, eds. (above).

"Nonwestern Ethical Frameworks," with John Lawler and Xiang Yi, in Budd and Scoville, eds., (above)

"A Theory of Jobs and Training," Industrial Relations, October 1969.

Perspectives on Poverty and Income Distribution, DC Heath, 1971

"Remuneration in Afghan Industry," Intl. Lab. Rev., April 1969

Manpower and Occupational Analysis: Concepts and Measurements, DC Heath 1972

"Afghan Labor Markets: A Model of Interdependence," Industrial Relations, Oct. 1974

"Organizing our Thoughts about Workers' Participation," Labour and Society, July 1980

"Was Lenin Truly Taylorized?" Industrial Relations, April 2004

Jajmani Matrix (entry on this analytical tool in the Intl. Encyc. of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.)

Abstracts

"The Taylorization of Vladimir Ilich Lenin," Industrial Relations, Spring 2001

Status Influences in Third World Labor Markets: Caste, Gender and Custom, DeGruyter, 1991

The Job Content of the US Economy, McGrawHill, 1969

"The Labor Market in Prerevolutionary Iran," Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1985

"The Traditional Industrial Sector: An Update on its Role and Functioning," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, July 1986

"New Tasks for the Theory of the Labor Movement: New Beginnings in Eastern Europe," Labour, Winter 1995

"Labor Market Underpinnings of a Caste Economy: Foiling the Coase Theorem," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October 1996

"Compensation: the American Way," with Ross Azevedo, Journal of Comparative International Management, December 2001

"The Latin Model of Compensation," with Laura Moran and Nora Wilmot Ragatz, Journal of Comparative International Management, December 2001

"Segmentation in the Market for Child Labor: the Economics of Child Labor Revisited," American Journal of Economics & Sociology, July 2002

"Discarding facts the Economics of Caste," Review of Development Economics, August 2003

The International Labor Movement In Transition, edited with Adolf Sturmthal, Univ of Illinois Press, 1971

Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, 2005 IRRA/LERA Research volume, edited with John Budd.

Current Activities

Community Relationships

Consultant for USAID, International Labor Office, UNDP

Listed on the Minnesota and Iowa PERB Arbitration Rosters and FMCS Roster

LaborManagement arbitrator

Current Research

Social dialogue in the commerce sector

Theories of the labor movement

Worker participation

Third World urban employment problems

Editorial Appointments

Perspectives on Work

Human Resource Development Review

Scholarly Service

Vice President, Annual Program chair (1998), President (1999), International Section of the Industrial Relations Research Association

Program Committee member, Industrial Relations Research Association

Chair, International Industrial Relations Association study group on urban labor markets