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.
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...
Sexualities, Work and Organizations
1st Edition
By James Ward
June 13, 2012
Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking ...
Globalisation, State and Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie
January 24, 2006
Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour. It shows how although the world is undergoing ...
Employment Relations in the Health Service
1st Edition
By Stephen Bach
December 16, 2005
Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level. Bringing together analyses of both employment ...
Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry
1st Edition
By Charles Woolfson, John Foster, Matthais Beck
June 07, 2005
This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts to contain subsequent, unwelcome regulatory interference, and examines the fraught history of trade ...
Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Fairbrother, Charlotte Yates
June 10, 2003
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the ...