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.
Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Jens Arnholtz, Nathan Lillie
June 30, 2021
Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional ...
The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management: Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter
1st Edition
By Ruth Elizabeth Slater
June 30, 2021
Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice, and a societal domain in ...
Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: Challenging the Regime in Egypt
1st Edition
By Heba F. El-Shazli
March 31, 2021
“We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed,” say Egyptian workers with strong conviction and passion. Egyptian independent workers’ continuous claims of contention and protest repertoires were one of several main factors leading to the January 25, 2011, uprising. After ...
Trade Unions in the Course of European Integration: The Social Construction of Organized Interests
1st Edition
By Martin Seeliger
March 31, 2021
From the perspective of trade unions, European integration makes it more necessary than ever before to establish common political positions. At the same time, increasing heterogeneity between the member states makes the crafting of such positions more and more difficult. Can, under these ...
Unions and Employment in a Market Economy: Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Andrew Brady
March 31, 2021
Due to the sharp declines in trade union density and collective bargaining coverage post-1979, the shift by trade unions towards political action has had significant implications for employment relations regulation in contemporary Britain. Yet, there remains insufficient discussion of the factors ...
Workplace Attachments: Managing Beneath the Surface
1st Edition
By James Grady, Victoria Grady, Patrick McCreesh, Ian Noakes
March 31, 2021
How fast can your organization change? How long does it take to adopt new technology? Do things run the same when you bring in a new leader? How does the culture evolve with new acquisitions?There is an underlying thread in all these questions. Workplace attachment or our instinctual (biological) ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Trade Unions: Perspectives across Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Lutz Preuss, Michael Gold, Chris Rees
December 18, 2020
Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such as NGOs and local communities. Curiously, however, commentators on CSR rarely discuss the role of trade unions, while commentators on employment ...
Strategic Management of Diversity in the Workplace: A Comparative Study of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia
1st Edition
By Emile Chidiac
December 18, 2020
Strategic Management of Diversity in the Workplace discusses the strategic management of ethnic and cultural diversity by taking particular examples from Australia, Canada, The United Kingdom and the United States of America, in order to determine the salient benefits that organisations could ...
The Gender Pay Gap and Social Partnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap"
1st Edition
Edited
By Hazel Conley, Donata Gottardi, Geraldine Healy, Barbara Mikołajczyk, Marco Peruzzi
December 18, 2020
The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same legal principles on pay equality. Part of the variation can be explained by different patterns of social partnership. With current policy pressure to ...
A New Theory of Industrial Relations: People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Conor Cradden
December 06, 2019
Most existing theoretical approaches to industrial relations and human resources management (IR/HRM) build their analyses and policy prescriptions on one of two foundational assumptions. They assume either that conflict between workers and employers is the natural and inevitable state of affairs; ...
Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: The Tunisian Case of UGTT
1st Edition
By Hèla Yousfi
December 06, 2019
This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued – Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising. The UGTT; From its ...
A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany: Joining Forces?
1st Edition
By Jürgen Hoffman, Marcus Kahmann, Jeremy Waddington
February 04, 2019
Trade unions in Europe are currently facing a series of challenges that stem from changes to regulatory and production regimes implemented by the state and employers, in order to compete in an increasingly internationalized economy. In response to these challenges, trade union movements have been ...