Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
About the Book Series
The aim of the Employment and Work Relations in Context Series is to address questions relating to the evolving patterns and politics of work, employment, management and industrial relations. There is a concern to trace out the ways in which wider policy-making, especially by national governments and transnational corporations, impinges upon specific workplaces, occupations, labour markets, localities and regions. This invites attention to developments at an international level, marking out patterns of globalization, state policy and practices in the context of globalization and the impact of these processes on labour. A particular feature of the series is the consideration of forms of worker and citizen organization and mobilization. The studies address major analytical and policy issues through case study and comparative research.
International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks
1st Edition
By Matthew M. Fischer-Daly
October 09, 2024
International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to case studies on strawberry production and sales in ...
Disability in the Workplace: The Politics of Difference
1st Edition
By Jonathon S. Breen, Susan J. Forwell
October 07, 2024
This book introduces the difference model of disability. Framed within an affect-based understanding of the relationships between those living with impairments and others, this new model offers a reconsideration of the construct of disability itself. Disability is flexible, relational, and ...
Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Lévesque, Peter Fairbrother, Blandine Emilien, María C. González, Lucie Morissette
May 27, 2024
Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses ...
Crossing Boundaries: Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective
1st Edition
By Russell D. Lansbury
June 30, 2022
This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to work and employment relations....
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880
1st Edition
By Michael Quinlan
April 29, 2022
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation. The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and ...
The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson, Russell D. Lansbury, Karin Sanders
April 29, 2022
The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place ...
Transnational Management and Globalised Workers: Nurses Beyond Human Resources
1st Edition
By Tricia Cleland Silva
December 18, 2020
There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and classed hierarchies. In the last ...
Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Peter Fairbrother, Meagan Tyler
December 18, 2020
This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living ...
The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850
1st Edition
By Michael Quinlan
December 05, 2019
This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in ...
Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert
August 07, 2018
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization,...
Human Resource Management in Emerging Economies
1st Edition
By Piotr Zientara
June 08, 2018
The demise of communism in 1989 in eastern Europe, followed by the break-up of the Soviet Union and the spectacular rise of China and India in the 1990s, brought about a new world order. In eastern Europe communism not only caused large-scale impoverishment and technological slowing, but also ...
Women, Work and Trade Unions
1st Edition
By Anne Munro
October 12, 2017
This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that there is an institutional bias within trade unions which precludes the full representation of women's interests. Based on empirical research into two ...