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 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 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 ...
Rediscovering Collective Bargaining: Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth
June 07, 2017
This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework ...
Social Regionalism in the Global Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Adelle Blackett, Christian Lévesque
October 26, 2016
Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to addressing labour ...
Japanese Management Techniques and British Workers
1st Edition
By Andy Danford
August 26, 2016
Analyzing the impact of Japanese-style management techniques such as lean production, teamworking, kaizen (continuous improvement) and business unionism of factory workers, this text investigates different facets of the organization of the labour process and employment relations within 15 Japanese ...