Faculty & Research

Richard Locke

Biography | Selected Publications

The Promise and Perils of Private Voluntary Regulation: Labor Standards and Work Organization in Two Mexican Garment Factories [2009]

Virtue out of Necessity?: Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains [2008]

"Beyond corporate codes of conduct: Work organization and labour standards at Nike's suppliers." International Labour Review, Vol. 146 Issue 1/2, (March-June 2007): 21-37.

"Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards?: Lessons from Nike," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61 Issue 1, (October 2007): 3-31.

"Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain." MIT Sloan Management Review, Volume 48, Number 2 (Winter 2007): 54-62.

"Education as an Emotional Experience: Reflections of a Teacher," Schools: Studies in Education. (2006) [2006]

"Information Content of Equity Analyst Reports," Journal of Financial Economics, February 2005 (with Michael Mikhail and Andrea Au).

"Il Caso Italiano and Globalization," in European Industrial Restructuring in a Global Economy: Fragmentation and Relocation of Valve Chairs, Michael Faust, Ulrich Voskamp, and Volker Witke, eds., Gottingen: SOFI, 2004.

"Claves para Ser Un Pais de Emprendedores," Empresas COPEC, No. 55 (April 2004).

"Extended Networks: A Vision for Next Generation Unions," in Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective, Anil Verma and Thomas A. Kochan, eds. 2004.

"Construindo Confianga," Economica, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 2003)

The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike, in Management: Inventing and Delivering It's Future, Richard Schmalensee and Thomas A. Kochan, eds. MIT Press, 2003.

"Construire la Fiducia," in Mezzogiorno e Sviluppo Economico, Archille Flora, ed., Naples: Nuovo Scientifico, 2002.

Co-author with Zairo B. Cheibub, "Valores ou intresses? Reflexoes sobre a responsabilidad social das empresas, in Empresa, Empresarios e Globalizacao, Anna Kircher, ed. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 2002.

"Building Trust", paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 11, 2001.

"Il 'Caso italiano' e la globalizzazione," in L'Italia Che Cambia; Stephen Graubard and Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, eds., Bologna: Il Mundo. 2001.

"Mirror Images?: Political Strategies for Economic Development in East Germany and Southern Italy." Stato e Mercato. [2001]

"Unions on the Rebound: Social Embeddedness and the Transformation of Building Trades Locals," co-author with Sean Safford,under review at Industrial and Labor Relations Review. [2001]

Globalization and Il Caso Italiano, Daedalus, Volume 130, No. 3 (Spring 2001).

The Shifting Boundaries of Labor Politics: New Directions for Comparative Research and Theory, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Richard Locke and Kathleen Thelen, eds. [2001]

Working in America, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. Co-Author with Paul Osterman, Thomas Kochan, Michael Piore.

"The Resurgence of Italian Trade Unionism." In Andrew Martin and George Ross, eds. The Brave New World of European Labor : Comparing Trade Union Responses to the New European Political Economy. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1999: 217-268.

"The Resurgence of Italian Unions," Perspectives on Work, Vol. 3(1), 1999: 18-22.

"The End of Solidarity?": The Decline of Egalitarian Wage Policies in Italy and Sweden," European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 4, No. 3, (November): 283-308. [1998]

"Reforma do sector publico e participatao sindical: O caso do Sistema de Pensione Italiano." Revista do Servito Publico. (Public Sector Reform and Union Participation:; The Case of the Italian Pension System) Ano 48, Numero 2, Mai-Ago 1997.

"The Dilemmas of Diffusion: Social Embeddedness and the Problems of Institutional Change in Eastern Germany," Politics & Society, Vol. 25, No. 1, (March): 34-65. 1996. [1997]

"Learning From Past Mistakes? Recent Reforms in Italian Industrial Relations," Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4, (December): 289-303. [1996]

"Public Sector Reform and Union Participation: The Case of the Italian Pension Reform." MIT, Sloan School of Management Working Paper, September 1996.

"The Composite Economy: Local Politics and Industrial Change in Contemporary Italy," Economy and Society, Vol. 25, No. 4, (November): 483-510. 1995. [1996]

"The End of Solidarity? Union Fragmentation and the Decline of Egalitarian Wage Policies in Italy and Sweden." MIT, Sloan School of Management Working Paper, May 1996.

"Apples and Oranges Revisited: Contextualized Comparisons and the Study of Comparative Labor Politics," Politics & Society, Vol. 23, No. 3 (September): 337-68. (Revised translated version, "Comparagoes contextualidas: Uma abordagem alternativa para a analise de politica sindical, " in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudos del Trabajo, Vol. 4, No. 8, 1998.) [1995]

"Italian Industrial Relations: Searching for a New National Model ?" MIT, Sloan School of Management Working Papers, June 1995.

"Una economia differenziata: politica locale e cambiamento industriale," Stato E Mercato, n.43 (April): 27-64. [1995]

Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

"Pedagogy and Politics in the Italian Union Movement: A Tale of Administrative Failure." MIT, Sloan School of Management Working Papers, June 1994.

"The Demise of the National Union in Italy: Lessons for Comparative Industrial Relations Research," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 45, No. 2 (January): 229-49. [1992]

"The Resurgence of the Local Union: Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in Italy," Politics & Society, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September): 347-79. [1990]