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.
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 ...
Unionization and Union Leadership: The Road Haulage Industry
1st Edition
By Paul Smith
July 29, 2016
The focus of this book is the process of unionization in the road haulage industry, in particular, the role of leadership in determining the quality of union organization. It analyzes the early history of road haulage unions, the creation of the TGWU, the failure to organize the industry during the...
Industrial Relations in Education: Transforming the School Workforce
1st Edition
By Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson, Rowena Passy
July 27, 2016
All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to ...
Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour: Insecurity in the New World of Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Judy Fudge, Kendra Strauss
July 15, 2016
Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour Organisation has identified forced, coerced, and ...
Young Adult Women, Work and Family: Living a Contradiction
1st Edition
By Maureen Padfield, Ian Procter
April 27, 2016
This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart ...
Privatization of Public Services: Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker
September 03, 2015
Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of ...
Unions and Globalisation: Governments, Management, and the State at Work
1st Edition
By Peter Fairbrother, John O'Brien, Anne Junor, Michael O'Donnell, Glynne Williams
September 03, 2015
In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this ...
Vocational Training: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest
September 03, 2015
The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young...
Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry: Restructuring, Corporatism and Union Democracy in Mexico
1st Edition
By John P. Tuman
May 21, 2015
This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican ...
Global Tourism and Informal Labour Relations: The Small Scale Syndrome at Work
1st Edition
By Godfrey Baladacchino
April 09, 2015
The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces, yet the host-guest interaction is rarely considered from the point of view of the experience of work. This study documents and discusses such a global-local encounter, based on fieldwork...