The following table outlines issues, dates, and titles of original research conducted by Industrial Relations Counselors.
| Issue | Date | IRC Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Vacations | 1927 | Charles M.Mills, Vacations for Industrial Workers |
| Employee Benefits | 1951 | Cost of “Fringe” Benefits: Report on a Survey and Some Pointers on Survey Methods |
| 1957 | Major Medical Insurance: An Analysis of Evolving Patterns | |
| 1961 | Trends in Employee Benefits: An Analysis of Relevant Issues | |
| Easing the Impact of Unemployment through Unemployment Insurance | 1930 | Bryce M. Stewart, et al., Unemployment Benefits in the United States: The Plan and the Setting |
| 1931 | T. G. Spates and G. S. Rabinovich, Unemployment Insurance in Switzerland: the Ghent System Nationalized with Compusory Features | |
| Bryce M. Stewart, Summary of Studies on Unemployment Insurance | ||
| Mary Barrett Gilson, Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain: the National System and Additional Benefit Plans | ||
| 1932 | Constance A. Kiehel, Unemployment Insurance in Belgium: A National Development of the Ghent and Liege Systems | |
| 1934 | Alvin H. Hansen, Merrill G. Murray, Russell A. Stevenson, and Bryce M. Stewart, A Program for Unemployment Insurance and Relief in the United States; An Historical Basis for Unemployment Insurance: A Report Prepared for the Employment Stabilization Research Institute, University of Minnesota | |
| T. S. Chegwidden and G. Myrddin-Evans, The Employment Exchange Service of Great Britain: An Outline of the Administration of Placing and Unemployment Insurance | ||
| Oscar Weigert, Administration of Placement and Unemployment Insurance in Germany | ||
| 1935 | Administration of Public Employment Offices and Unemployment Insurance: Canada, France, Sweden, and Switzerland | |
| 1938 | Bryce M. Stewart, Planning and Administration of Unemployment Compensation in the United States: A Sampling of Beginnings | |
| 1939 | Herman Feldman and Donald M. Smith, The Case for Experience Rating in Unemployment Compensation and a Proposed Method | |
| Richard A. Lester and Charles V. Kidd, The Case Against Experience Rating in Unemployment Compensation | ||
| Sharing Company Gains with Employees | 1937 | C. Canby Balderston, Profit Sharing for Wage Earners |
| 1945 | Profit Sharing and Stock Ownership for Wage Earners and Executives | |
| 1951 | Profit Sharing for Wage Earners and Executives | |
| Industrial Relations in World War II: Gearing Up1939 for Victory | 1939 | Sumner H. Slichter, Economic Factors Affecting Industrial Relations Policy in the War Period |
| 1940 | Wage Setting Based on Job Analysis and Evaluation | |
| 1941 | Sumner H. Slichter, Economic Factors Affecting Industrial Relations Policy in National Defense | |
| 1943 | Robert D. Gray, Systematic Wage Administration in the Southern California Aircraft Industry | |
| Bryce M. Stewart and Walter J. Couper, Maintenance of Union Membership: A Study of Official Cases and Company Experience | ||
| Postwar Industrial Relations: A Peaceful Transition to Peace | 1945 | National Collective Bargaining Policy |
| 1946 | Fact-Finding in Industrial Disputes Reconversion in Industrial Relations | |
| Security in Old Age: Public and Private Pension Systems | 1932 | Murray Webb Latimer, Industrial Pension Systems in the United States; Trade Union Pension Systems and other Superannuation and Permanent and Total Disability Benefits in the United States and Canada |
| 1940 | Murray Webb Latimer and Karl Tufel, Trends in Industrial Pensions | |
| 1949 | Rainard B. Robbins, Impact of Taxes on Industrial Pension Plans | |
| 1954 | Social Security Amendments and Private Pension Plans | |
| Walter J. Couper and Roger Vaughan, Pension Planning Experience and Trends | ||
| 1956 | Social Security Amendments of 1956 | |
| 1972 | Robert J. Myers, Private Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans: Are Limitations on Contributions and Benefits Desirable? | |
| 1979 | Bruno Stein, Social Security and the Private Pension System | |
| 1996 | Social Security: Maintaining a Perspective on its Problems and Their Possible Solutions | |
| Employee Security: Stabilization of Employment and Earnings | 1953 | The Guaranteed Annual Wage: An Active Issue |
| 1954 | Steadier Jobs: A Handbook for Management on Stabilizing Employment | |
| Equal Employment Opportunity | 1959 | Paul H. Norgren, Albert N. Webster, Roger D. Borgeson, and Maud B. Patten, Employing the Negro in American Industry |
| 1979 | Job Evaluation and EEO: The Emerging Issues | |
| 1995 | Affirmative Action under Attack | |
| Corporate Executives | 1952 | Executive Compensation: Stock Options and Subsidized Savings Plans |
| Compensation, Health, Retirement | 1958 | Special Health Examinations for Executives—A Sampling of Current Practices |
| 1961 | Richard A. Beaumont and James W. Tower, Executive Retirement and Effective Management | |
| 1963 | Restricted Stock Options: The Intent and the Controversy | |
| Productivity | 1959 | Richard A. Beaumont, Productivity and Policy Decisions |
| 1962 | Roy B. Helfgott, Group Wage Incentives: Experience with the Scanlon Plan | |
| 1972 | Boosting Productivity—High Priority Objective | |
| 1999 | The Case of the Missing Productivity: A Mystery | |
| Developments in Labor Law Unions, Collective Bargaining Professionals in Unions | 1946 | Herbert R. Northrup, Unionization of Professional Engineers and Chemists |
| IR Trends | 1953 | Basic Factors Influencing Industrial Relations Trends |
| Secondary Boycotts | 1960 | Guy Farmer, Strikes, Picketing, and Secondary Boycotts under the Landrum-Griffin Amendment |
| Arbitration | 1960 | Arbitration—A New Direction? A Discussion of the Issues involved in the Supreme Court Decisions of June 20, 1960 |
| Emergency Disputes | 1961 | Emergency Disputes: A National Labor Policy Problem |
| Grievances | 1961 | Grievance Handling: A Case Study of a New Approach |
| The IBT | 1961 | A Profile of the Teamsters Union |
| Plant Relocation | 1962 | Plant Relocation—Industrial Relations Implications: A Review Based on the Glidden Case |
| Law Changes | 1963 | The Changing Climate in Labor Law |
| Management Rights | 1965 | Guy Farmer, Management Rights and Union Bargaining Power—An Assessment of Supreme Court and NLRB Decisions |
| Independent Unions | 1966 | Leo Troy, Management and the Local Independent Union |
| Further Changes | 1967 | Guy Farmer, Colletive Bargaining in Transition. 1) Coalition Bargaining and Union Power; 2) Restoring the Balance |
| 1970 | The NLRB—Possible Avenues of Reform | |
| Striker Replacements | 1994 | The Bill to Ban the Hiring of Permanent Replacements for Strikers |
| Employee Voice | 1998 | Nonunion Forms of Employee Representation |
| New Technology— Easing Impact on Employees | 1964 | Richard A. Beaumont and Roy B. Helfgott, Management Automation, and People |
| 1965 | Computer Technology—Concepts for Management | |
| 1967 | Computer Technology— Applications for Management | |
| 1988 | Roy B. Helfgott, Computerized Manufacturing and Human Resources: Innovation through Employee Involvement (Lexington) | |
| Behavioral Science/ Organizational Theory | 1962 | Behavioral Science Research in Industrial Relations |
| 1964 | Applying Behavioral Science Research in Industry | |
| 1970 | New Dimensions in Organization | |
| Employee Involvement in Decision Making | 1993 | Employee Committees, Participation, and Involvement |
| 1994 | Report on the IRC Survey of Employee Involvement | |
| Industrial Relations Theory and Practice | 1941 | Clarence J. Hicks, My Life in Industrial Relations (Harper) |
| 1975 | Carroll E. French, Management and Industrial Relations | |
| Human Resource Planning | 1969 | Manpower Planning: Tools, Techniques and Strategies |
| 1970 | Manpower and Planning |
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