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.
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 ...
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 ...