Books in the Routledge Research in Employment Relations series

This book contributes to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research to provide new and comprehensive evidence on trade union strategies.

The precise relationship between an employee and employer is often ambiguous within complex organizational boundaries. This book re-evaluates the way employment relations are conceptualized and examines employment conditions in non-union organizations.

Research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in the software development industry and to provide an analysis of software development and developers.

This edited book brings together empirical studies of the work-life nexus with a specific focus on men¿s working time arrangements, how men navigate and traverse paid work and family commitments, and the impact of public and organizational policies on men¿s participation in work, leisure, and other life domains. The book is innovative in that it presents both macro (institutional, how policy affects practice) and micro (individual, from men¿s own perspectives) level studies, allowing for a rich and contrasting exploration of how men¿s participation in paid work and other domains is divided, conflicted, or integrated. Taking an international focus, Men, Wage Work and Family contrasts various public and organizational policies and how these policies impact men¿s opportunities and participation in paid work and non-work domains in industrialised countries in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Examines contemporary trade union approaches to vocational education, workplace training and skill development. This book explores the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; and the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level.

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. This volume analyses existing models of leadership in various political organisational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector.

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 between employers and trade unions, have had to adapt accordingly. The Transformation of Employment Relations focuses not just on recent change, but charts the strategic choices that have influenced employment relations and examines these key developments in a comparative perspective.

The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations. Drawing on survey data, this book shows that the quality of information and consultation is generally poor, thus bringing into question the soft touch legislative approach to employee participation of the European Commission.

This book brings together contributions from both expert academics and leading figures of UNISON itself, in an in-depth analysis of the union's achievements to date, highlighting ways in which unionism may develop in the twenty-first century.

An examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms, this text focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership.

The history of the field of industrial relations and the history of social democracy are intimately connected, through the events of the Cold War and the activities of key individuals such as Allan Flanders, one of the central figures in the creation of the field of industrial relations in Britain.

In examining the primary role the state has played in shaping employment patterns and social policy in France, this book analyzes the impact of globalization on French industrial relations.

Focusing on 13 developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries. In addition it analyses the more general issues of HRM in cross-national settings.

This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernisation of employment relations and draws from the work of leading researchers.

Providing insights into working life, this book offers an approach to innovation in the work place. It argues that many innovations associated with the corporation seem to reproduce many of the conditions that we associate with the industrial age. It demonstrates the debilitating consequences of these interventions.

Focusing on 13 developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries. In addition it analyses the more general issues of HRM in cross-national settings.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers with a specific interest in the hotel and catering industry, but will also be of interest to researchers with a wider interest in HRM issues.

Offers an assessment of the impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade unions. This work locates the changes in industrial politics since the 1990s in the development of globalization. It looks at many aspects of the New Labour's policies in relation to employment relations and trade unionism.

Presents a review of the global scholarly literature on diversity. This book presents findings from original UK-based research involving organizational case studies, interviews, observation and documentary data from over fifty organizations.

Comparative in perspective and based on empirical research, this book brings a collection of contributions and insights on how employee representative from different European countries perform their jobs as members of the European Works Councils.

Combining contemporary human resource management (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. It also examines the impact of HRM on airline pilots as well as union-management relationship, and others.

This book covers the key themes related to the introduction, growth development and future of European Works Councils and covers both theoretical models and questions of practice.

Charts the progress, achievements, and obstacles faced by the partnership between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid 1990s, based on access to the partners, documents, observations on how the partnership functioned and three surveys of the company's workforce.

This book brings together research in gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and the growing intersection between trade unions and social movements. It offers an authoritative basis for comparative analysis in eleven countries.

This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernization of employment relations and draws from the work of leading researchers.

Evaluates the debate on partnership. This book redefines the debate providing a new categorisation with which to synthesize and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership.