Routledge Research in Employment Relations
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Financial Services Partnerships
Labor-Management Dynamics
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Voice and Involvement at Work
Experience with Non-Union Representation
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the last decade in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. Two reasons account for this. The first is the long-term and cumulatively substantial decline in trade union...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
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The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe
Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and placed a new premium on ‘flexible’ forms of work organization. The institutions of employment relations, specifically those concerning collective bargaining...
To Be Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various...
Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Gender and Leadership in Unions
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in...
Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Men, Wage Work and Family
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant...
Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Trade Unions and Workplace Training
Issues and International Perspectives
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union...
Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Social Failures of EU Enlargement
A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been...
Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Politics of Industrial Relations
Labor Unions in Spain
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from...
Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
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European Works Councils and Industrial Relations
A Transnational Industrial Relations Institution in the Making
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
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Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions
Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform
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
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Diversity Management in the UK
Organizational and Stakeholder Experiences
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
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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World
British Trade Unions under New Labour
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade unions. This innovative text locates changes in industrial politics since the 1990s in the...
Published November 17th 2008 by Routledge
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Management in the Airline Industry
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
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Power at Work
How Employees Reproduce the Corporate Machine
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 March 28th 2007 by Routledge
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Towards a European Labour Identity
The Case of the European Works Council
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
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Partnership at Work
The Quest for Radical Organizational Change
Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts the progress, achievements and obstacles faced by the partnership based on...
Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
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Union Recognition
Organising and Bargaining Outcomes
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
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French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy
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
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A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany
Joining Forces?
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
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Management, Labour Process and Software Development
Reality Bites
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