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11. European Works Councils and Industrial Relations

    A Transnational Industrial Relations Institution in the Making

    By Jeremy Waddington

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations in recent years. Adopted with the primary goal of facilitating European-level workers’ participation in information-sharing and consultation in multinational companies, EWCs have also...

    Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
12. Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions

    Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform

    By John Kelly

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political...

    Published April 28th 2010 by Routledge
13. Power at Work

    How Employees Reproduce the Corporate Machine

    By Darren McCabe

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Providing detailed insights into working life, McCabe, a well known author in the fields of organization studies, labour process theory and critical management studies offers a distinctive approach to innovation in the work place. In this ethnography of a major US bank he argues that many...

    Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge
14. Diversity Management in the UK

    Organizational and Stakeholder Experiences

    By Anne-Marie Greene, Gill Kirton

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    A comprehensive and critical review of the global scholarly literature on diversity, this book presents findings from original UK-based research involving in-depth organizational case studies, interviews, observation and documentary data from over fifty organizations. Analyzing the findings from...

    Published May 5th 2009 by Routledge
15. Management in the Airline Industry

    By Geraint Harvey

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management. As a highly educated, highly trained, and non-substitutable professional employee, the airline...

    Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
16. Towards a European Labour Identity

    The Case of the European Works Council

    Edited by Michael Whittall, Herman Knudsen, Fred Huijgen

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Since 1996 a growing number of European employees have access to a European works council (EWC), a transnational employee body designed to complement national forms of labour representation . This volume brings together a hep hive of contributors who present valuable new insights into how employee...

    Published March 7th 2007 by Routledge
17. Union Recognition

    Organising and Bargaining Outcomes

    Edited by Gregor Gall

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Several thousand new trade union recognition agreements have been signed since 1997, representing a major development within industrial relations in Britain. This has resulted from the interaction of union organizing efforts and the statutory union recognition provisions of the Employment Relations...

    Published September 12th 2005 by Routledge
18. French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy

    By Nick Parsons

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Examining the traditionally predominant role of the state in shaping employment patterns and social policy in France, French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy analyzes the impact of globalization on French industrial relations. Looking at the changing economic context of industrial...

    Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge
19. A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany

    Joining Forces?

    By Jürgen Hoffman, Marcus Kahmann, Jeremy Waddington

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Trade unions in Europe are currently facing a series of challenges that stem from changes to regulatory and production regimes implemented by the state and employers, in order to compete in an increasingly internationalized economy. In response to these challenges, trade union movements have been...

    Published May 18th 2005 by Routledge
20. Management, Labour Process and Software Development

    Reality Bites

    By Rowena Barrett

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    This revealing book is about software development, the developers themselves, and how their work is organized and managed. The latest original research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in this industry. Chapters also cover...

    Published January 19th 2005 by Routledge