Routledge Research in Employment Relations
About the Book Series
Aspects of the employment relationship are central to numerous courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Drawing from insights from industrial relations, human resource management and industrial sociology, this series provides an alternative source of research-based materials and texts, reviewing key developments in employment research. Books published in this series are works of high academic merit, drawn from a wide range of academic studies in the social sciences.
Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
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By Jens Arnholtz, Bjarke Refslund
January 29, 2026
The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in ...
Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg
1st Edition
By Peter Ackers
August 29, 2025
Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the ...
Employment, Training and Lifelong Learning: Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Lourdes Mella Méndez, Silvia Fernández Martínez, Bárbara Torres García
August 07, 2025
This book offers a timely exploration of the continuous training of individuals, a subject crucial to both business competitiveness and societal progress in today’s rapidly changing world. Addressing the digital and climate revolutions, it examines how lifelong learning helps workers adapt their ...
Social Sustainability and the Employee: Labor, Employment Relations, and the Hospitality Industry
1st Edition
By Piotr Zientara, Joanna Adamska, Monika Bąk
March 17, 2025
This research monograph delves into the pressing issue of employee-centered social sustainability in the hospitality industry. Through empirical studies and content analysis of CSR reports, it highlights the significant challenges faced by frontline hospitality workers – such as low wages, job ...
Employment Relations and Global Governance: The Dialogue between the Global Unions and the IFIs
1st Edition
By Yvonne Rueckert
November 28, 2024
Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty. International crises such as the international financial and economic crisis of 2008, and more recently the global health pandemic, have led to a rise in ...
The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain
1st Edition
By Kerstin Hamann
October 14, 2024
As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from...
The Reconstruction of Workplace Conflict Resolution: The Road to the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland
1st Edition
By William K. Roche, Paul Teague, Denise Currie
September 04, 2024
Many attempts have been made in recent decades by liberal market economies to reconstruct public workplace conflict resolution agencies in response to major changes in patterns of workplace conflict. These have often been hampered or stymied by political schisms, stalemate or inertia. The radical ...
Contemporary Employers’ Organizations: Adaptation and Resilience
1st Edition
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By Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier
January 29, 2024
This book argues that employers’ organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. Adaptation has been prompted by changing economic and social contexts, including state interventions and union activities. Contexts vary over time, across ...
Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory
1st Edition
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By Bernd Brandl, Bengt Larsson, Alex Lehr, Oscar Molina
January 29, 2024
Traditional approaches in the wide field of employment relations focused on a small and clearly delineated set of actors, such as trade unions and employers’ organizations, operating within the constraints given by formal, nationally confined institutions. It is becoming increasingly clear that ...
Employment, Trade Unionism, and Class: The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis
1st Edition
By Gregoris Ioannou
May 31, 2023
The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe. This book provides a critical comparative assessment of the dynamics of change in the employment field, focusing on Spain, ...
Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective
1st Edition
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By Dale Belman, Janet Druker, Geoffrey White
August 29, 2022
The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual working practices, for the sometimes abusive use of migrant labor, for gendered male employment and for a...
Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries
1st Edition
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By Peter Holland, Chris Brewster
September 30, 2021
Whilst only in the second decade of the 21st century, we have seen significant and fundamental change in the way we work, where we work, how we work and the conditions of work. The continued advancements of (smart) technology and artificial intelligence, globalisation and deregulation can provide a...