Highlights various aspects of industrial and labor relations. This title includes: alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, and competing ethical conceptions of the minimum wage.
Based on the primary analysis of the "2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey" (WERS 2004), this book, the fifth in the series, provides a descriptive mapping of employment relations examining the principal features of the structures, practices and outcomes of workplace employment relations. It also includes research delivered by the DTI.
This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life.
Protein research is a frontier field in science. Proteins are widely distributed in plants and animals and are the principal constituents of the protoplasm of all cells, and consist essentially of combinations of a-amino acids in peptide linkages. This book gathers advanced research from throughout the world in this field of research.
A unique exploration of the the contributions made by multinational corporations to the difficult labour market transitions towards full integration of Central and Eastern Europe members of the European Union. This book considers the roles played by US, British and German multinational companies (MNCs) in Central and Eastern Europe
This edition is revised to take into account the new Labour government. It examines recent changes in government policy, the law, union and management, together with their effects upon pay and productivity, the nature and scope of collective bargaining and Britain's strike record.
With significant regulatory, social and economic change occurring in Australia and in other countries, a new agenda for employment relations is needed. The scholarly essays in this book deal with many of the employment relations issues arising from these developments and consider the policy implications arising from them.
Focuses on issues surrounding work and labour in Canada. This book examines changes in the labour market and workplaces, with an empirical component based upon the Statistics Canada data. It is suitable for Sociology of Work courses, which often integrate labour, industry, and the global economy from a Canadian perspective.
In a growing and labour-abundant economy like India, industrial relations have special significance, particularly in public sector enterprises. This book examines and critically reviews the manifestation and magnitude of industrial disputes so as to understand the nature of industrial relations in public sector.
Colin Crouch presents a wide ranging survey of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and governments in western Europe. Employing rigorous economic and historical analysis, he presents powerful explanations of the diversity and significance of industrial relations in the 20th century.
Based on analysis of a series of case studies, this work explores the process of consultation and what it means in a business context. It delves beneath the surface of consulation to reveal that practitioners need to show a real understanding of the issues that effect the process within their organisation if it is to add value to the business.
The Britain government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light-touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. This title covers the interaction of domestic and cross-national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations.