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.
Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause
1st Edition
By Gerda van Roozendaal
August 30, 2002
As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what ...
Work and Employment in the High Performance Workplace
1st Edition
Edited
By Giles Anthony, Jacques Belanger, Paul-Andre Lapointe, Gregor Murray
July 31, 2002
There is a general consensus that deep-seated changes are reshaping the way production and work are organized, the way employees, employers and their representatives deal with each other, and the way governments seek to shape society. In this work a group of leading scholars take stock of the ...
Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Fairbrother, Gerard Griffin
July 01, 2002
Trade union movements in many countries face uncertain futures. After three decades of extensive economic restructuring at both national and international levels, often accompanied by major legislative reforms, the way forward for unions is unclear. Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, in most ...
Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital
1st Edition
By Jamie Gough
April 28, 2001
This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment. Jamie Gough explores the connections between labour process change, products, local economy and society, spaces and ...
Restructuring in the Service Industries: Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector
1st Edition
By Gavin Poynter
March 27, 2000
Restructuring in the Service Industries: Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector. An examination of the complex process of transformation in work organization, technology and labour and product markets that has occurred. The analysis moves between a broad appreciation of ...
Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance
1st Edition
By Jeremy Waddinton
November 02, 1999
The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour edited by by Paul Edwards and Tony Elger, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research...
The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Edwards, Tony Elger
November 02, 1999
The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance edited by Jeremy Waddington, seek to remedy this deficiency by presenting contemporary research on the relationship between ...
The State and 'Globalization': Comparative Studies of Labour and Capital in National Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Upchurch
October 19, 1999
This collection of country studies explores changing relationships between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal market agendas. The authors express concern at ...
History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Day, Kenneth Lunn
September 02, 1999
Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific characteristics of that pattern of industrial relations. It encompasses discussions of the nature of work and resistance to forms of authority. ...