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41. Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management

    Theory, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Stephen Rayner, Eva Cools

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network. The style field is a multidisciplinary, global community made up of researchers in several domains...

    Published September 12th 2010 by Routledge
42. British Factory Japanese Factory

    The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations

    By Ronald Dore

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products....

    Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
43. Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe

    Voting for Social Pacts

    By Kerstin Hamann, John Kelly

    Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

    Social pacts – policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations – began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most common explanations for social pacts tend to focus on economic factors, influenced by industrial relations institutions such as highly...

    Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
44. 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
45. Trade Unions in Asia

    An Economic and Sociological Analysis

    Edited by John Benson, Ying Zhu

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

    Offering a comprehensive account of the role of trade unions in Asia today, this book, put together by two editors who have published extensively in the areas of business and economics in Asia, covers all the important Asian economies: both developed and developing. Making a vital contribution to...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
46. The Political Economy of Work

    By David Spencer

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work. The author challenges some common preconceptions about work and promotes an original approach to the field,...

    Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
47. 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
48. Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010, Keele, UK

    Edited by Martin Anderson

    Series: Contemporary Ergonomics

    The broad and developing scope of ergonomics — the application of scientific knowledge to improve peoples’ interaction with products, systems, and environments — has been illustrated for 25 years by the books in the Contemporary Ergonomics series. Reflecting the name change of the Ergonomics...

    Published April 5th 2010 by Taylor & Francis
49. Developing a Safety and Health Program, Second Edition

    By Daniel E. Della-Giustina

    Reflecting changes in the field during the ten years since the publication of the first edition, Developing a Safety and Health Program, Second Edition examines the elements of a safety and health program and delineates how to incorporate them into an organization’s safety efforts. It begins by...

    Published December 16th 2009 by CRC Press
50. Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Paul A. Kurzman, R.Paul Maiden

    This book focuses on the contributions of organized labor in the development and evolution of workplace human services in America and eight countries around the world. Beginning with an overview of labor-sponsored social service programs, it showcases the achievements by major trade unions in the...

    Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge