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.
The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
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By Jim Arrowsmith, Valeria Pulignano
August 07, 2018
Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and placed a new premium on ‘flexible’ forms of work organization. The institutions of employment relations, specifically those concerning collective bargaining ...
Voice and Involvement at Work: Experience with Non-Union Representation
1st Edition
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By Paul J. Gollan, Bruce E. Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson
August 07, 2018
In the last decade, nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. This book examines the purpose, structure, and performance of various types of employee representation bodies ...
Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Suzan Lewis, Deirdre Anderson, Clare Lyonette, Nicola Payne, Stephen Wood
August 07, 2018
This book reflects the enormous interest in work-life balance and current pressing concerns about the impacts of austerity more broadly. It draws on contemporary research and practitioner experiences to explore how work-life balance and related workplace and social policy fare in turbulent economic...
Board Level Employee Representation in Europe: Priorities, Power and Articulation
1st Edition
By Jeremy Waddington, Aline Conchon
June 08, 2018
Board Level Employee Representation in Europe analyses the role, activities and networking of board level employee representatives in sixteen European countries and their counterparts operating in companies that have adopted European status. Board level employee representation is viewed as a key ...
Employment Relations under Coalition Government: The UK Experience, 2010-2015
1st Edition
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By Steve Williams, Peter Scott
June 08, 2018
Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date research, Employment Relations under Coalition Government critically examines developments in UK employment relations during the period of Conservative-Liberal Democrat government between 2010 and 2015, against the background of the 2007-08 financial crisis, ...
Financial Services Partnerships: Labor-Management Dynamics
1st Edition
By Peter Samuel
June 08, 2018
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership ...
Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization: Inside the Factory of the Future
1st Edition
By Alan McKinlay, Philip Taylor
June 08, 2018
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom ...
Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance: Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S.
1st Edition
By Sarah Blithe
April 27, 2018
Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable ...
Men, Wage Work and Family
1st Edition
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By Paula McDonald, Emma Jeanes
May 31, 2017
In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant ...
Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
1st Edition
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By Sue Ledwith, Lise Lotte Hansen
May 24, 2017
Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various ...
Trade Unions and Workplace Training: Issues and International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Richard Cooney, Mark Stuart
May 24, 2017
Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union ...
Gender and Leadership in Unions
1st Edition
By Gill Kirton, Geraldine Healy
May 22, 2017
Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in ...