Fully updated 4th edition of this widely-used overview of industrial relations practices around the world.
This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:* central problems in…
The fifth edition of Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Process is the first edition in the third decade of its use. Over this period of time,employment, and as a consequence, labor relations…
Authored by a well-respected team in labor relations, this text covers key topics in industrial relations and collective bargaining using a unique conceptual framework based on the three levels of …
Discusses the history and development of labor relations, the structure of union organizations, union organizing and union avoidance, bargaining issues, and the process of negotiations and contract…
Providing a broad overview of the field of labour economics, this book showcases both contemporary and classic research. Each chapter offers examples that illustrate the application of theory in a …
This volume features essays on labour relations at national, local, and workplace levels, as economic and political actors cope with the similar challenges associated with economic adjustment measu…
Negotiating Competitiveness will interest anyone concerned with national industrial competitiveness in the contemporary global economy. This book goes beyond the empirical evidence to examine the e…
Aims to provide an analytical treatment of bargaining power, looking at explanations of the balance of power between management and unions. The author argues that trade union power has declined les…
In this book on technological innovation and comparative industrial relations, contributors from Europe, Australia and the USA focus on methodological and theoretical issues, management strategies,…