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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

Series Editor: Dr Peter Fairbrother, Dr Tony Elger

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.

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  1. Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital

    By Jamie Gough

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    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...

    Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge

  2. Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry

    Restructuring, Corporatism and Union Democracy in Mexico

    By John P. Tuman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican...

    Published July 2nd 2003 by Routledge

  3. Trade Unions in Renewal

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Charlotte Yates

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    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...

    Published April 9th 2003 by Routledge

  4. Trade Unions and Global Governance

    The Debate on a Social Clause

    By Gerda van Roozendaal

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    First published in 2002...

    Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge

  5. Work and Employment in the High Performance Workplace

    Edited by Giles Anthony, Jacques Belanger, Paul-Andre Lapointe, Gregor Murray

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    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...

    Published March 20th 2002 by Routledge

  6. Unionization and Union Leadership

    The Road Haulage Industry

    By Paul Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Published May 9th 2001 by Routledge

  7. Restructuring in the Service Industries

    Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector

    By Gavin Poynter

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Published January 26th 2000 by Routledge