Don Wood Visiting Lectureship in Industrial Relations
The Lectureship was established in 1987 to honour Dr. W. Donald Wood, Professor
Emeritus, Queen’s University and former director of the Industrial Relations
Centre and School of Industrial Relations at Queen’s. The purpose of
the Lectureship is to bring to Queen’s University distinguished individuals
who have made an important contribution to industrial relations in Canada
and in other countries. Such persons are either senior scholars from the academic
world or public figures from business, trade unions or government.
Listing of the past recipients of the Don Wood Visiting Lectureship in Industrial
Relations and the title of their public lecture:
1987
John Dunlop
Harvard University Industrial relations: Old and new
1989
John Sexton
Université Laval Are Quebec labour relations so different?
1990
John Fryer
National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE) The
Canadian labour movement in the 1990s: Challenges and opportunities
1991
Thomas Kochan
MIT Innovations in industrial relations and human resources:
Prospects for diffusion
1992
Nancy Adler
McGill University Human resource management in the global
economy
1993
Lee Dyer
Cornell University Human resources as a source of competitive
advantage
1995
Robert M. McKersie
MIT Labour-management partnerships: Promise and challenge
1996
Harry Arthurs
York University The new economy: The demise of industrial
citizenship
1998
Paula Voos
Rutgers University Changing labour markets: Implications
for industrial relations
1999
John Crispo
University of Toronto Looking backward and forward: Can
industrial relations stand the test of time?
2001
Francine Blau
Cornell University The gender gap: Going, going …
but not gone
2003
Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers of America Globalization and North American Integration: Implications for
the Union Movement
2004
Linda Duxbury Sprott School of Business, Carleton University Issues in the Workplace: Standing Still is Not an Option
2005
The public lecture attracts academics, practitioners, students and researchers.
The paper delivered at the public lecture is published and widely disseminated
through our IR Collection and OD Collection.
