Aspects of the employment relationship are central to numerous courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Drawing on insights from industrial relations, human resource management and industrial sociology, this series provides an alternative source of research-based materials and texts reviewing key developments in employment research.
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By Tommy Isidorsson, Julia Kubisa
September 04, 2018
This is the era of flexibility. Under constant pressure to be adaptable, organizations increasingly adopt employment practices such as zero-hours contracts, the casualization of the workforce and the use of temporary and agency labour. These flexible practices are central to debates about the ...
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By Claire Simmers, Murugan Anandarajan
March 29, 2018
The transformational technologies of the Internet-Web compound continue to exert a vast and readily apparent influence on the way we live and work. In recent times, internet penetration is now very high in most parts of the world, impacting the context and content of the workplace and the boundary ...
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By Geoff White, Janet Druker
January 16, 2009
This thoroughly revised edition adopts a critical and theoretical perspective on remuneration policy and practices in the UK, from the decline of collective bargaining to the rise of more individualistic systems based on employee performance. It tackles the conceptual issues missing from existing ...
By John Kelly
June 05, 1998
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 industrial relations the mobilization theory of collective action the growth of non-union workplaces ...
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By Stephen Bach, Lorenzo Bordogna, Giuseppe Della Rocca, David Winchester
October 20, 1999
The book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK. Each of the chapters on national systems is organized around a set of themes and policy issues including: * ...
By Tony Royle
January 26, 2001
The McDonald's Corporation is not only the largest system-wide sales service in the world, it is a phenomenon in its own right, and is now recognized as the most famous brand in the world. By providing a detailed analysis of the extent to which the McDonald's Corporation adapts or imposes its ...
By Rosemary Lucas
March 10, 2004
Uniquely combining employment relations and the hospitality and tourism fields, this book draws on recently published sources to give readers a comprehensive and internationally comparative perspective on the subject area. It boldly extends the traditional analysis of employment relations by ...
By Gregor Gall
January 06, 2003
After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as ‘union organizing’ are being used to recruit and re-energize unions around the globe. This book considers exactly how trade unions are working to do this and provides a much-needed ...
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By Susan Corby, Geoff White
June 01, 2001
Almost a fifth of all employees work in the public sector. Employees working in the civil service, NHS, local government, education, the police and fire services also represent a large and growing body of students taking degree courses at universities. Exploring this important and rapidly ...
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By Brendan Burchell, David Ladipo, Frank Wilkinson
November 09, 2001
Based on findings of the recently published Joseph Rowntree Report, this book provides an up-to-the-minute review of current research on flexibility, job insecurity and work intensification. It examines the impact of these developments on individuals, their families, the workplace and the long-term...
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By Edmund Heery, Professor Edmund Heery, John Salmon
April 28, 2000
For the past two decades employment in Britain has been marked by a search for greater flexibility in the availability and use of labour. In recent years, however, there has been mounting concern at the costs of this trend and an appreciation that the consequence of a flexible labour market may be ...