Book Description
This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding.
Author : Peter Ackers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199240661
This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding.
Author : Neil Millward
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Examines the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS), a study designed to contribute to the debate on the reform of British industrial relations by making available large scale systematic evidence about a broad range of industrial relations and employment practices in the economy.
Author : Oliver Clarke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2024-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040121489
Agenda for Change (1991) examines the experiences of five industrialised market economies in a period of profound change in industrial relations. It looks at the national history and culture affecting industrial relations, the obstacles to change and the levers that could effect it, and the respective roles of employers, unions and governments in bringing about improvement. Is there any single model of an industrial relations system to which a country could aspire?
Author : Daniel Quinn Mills
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Dale Belman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780913447673
Examines the transformation of the employment relationship in governmental agencies, with particular emphasis on human resources policies and workplace practices.
Author : Kathleen Barker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501720864
The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.
Author : György Széll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110854937
Author : Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9403518200
It cannot be denied that in recent decades, for many if not most people, work has become unstable and insecure, with serious risk and few benefits for workers. As this reality spills over into political and social life, it is crucial to interrogate the transformations affecting employment relations, shape research agendas, and influence the policies of national and international institutions. This single volume brings together thirty-nine scholars (both academics and experienced industrial relations actors) in the fields of employment relations and labour law in a forthright discussion of new approaches, theories, and methods aimed at ameliorating the world of work. Focusing on why and how work is changing, how collective actors deal with it, and the future of work from different disciplinary angles and at an international level, the contributors describe and analyse such issues and topics as the following: new forms of social protection and representation; differences in the power relations of workers and political dynamics; balancing protection of workers’ dignity and promotion of productivity; intersection of information technology and workplace regulation; how the gig economy undermines legal protections; role of professional and trade associations; workplace conflict management; lay judges in labour courts; undeclared work in the informal sector of the labour market; work incapacity and disability; (in)coherence of the work-related case law of the European Court of Justice; and business restructurings. Derived from a major conference held in Leuven in September 2018, the book offers an in-depth understanding of the changing world of work, its main transformations, and the challenges posed to classical employment relations theories and methods as well as to labour law. With its wide range of insights, analysis, and reflection, this unique contribution to the study of industrial relations offers an authoritative reference guide to scholars, policymakers, trade unions and business associations, human resources professionals, and practitioners who need to deal with the future of work challenges.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Electric industry workers
ISBN :
Author : Karl Hinrichs
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877227571
The organization of working time in advanced industrial nations is currently in the midst of a profound shift away from standard hours and toward greater flexibility and diversity of schedules. This shift has major implications for industrial relations systems, the relative power of employers and unions, and the politics of labor markets and gender equity. This volume explores the broad significance of these developments cross-nationally in Europe, the United States, and Japan. The essays examine technological, and market changes that place a premium on greater flexibility, the successes and limits of trade union campaigns for shorter standard hours as a response to employment crises in the 1970s and 1980s, the impact of reducing standard work hours upon leisure time, the increasing diversity of employee preferences, and the decline in the male norm's influence on working time and working life. Developments in part-time and temporary work, as well as more innovative policies in parental leave, job sharing, and flexible retirement, are analyzed. Placing these developments in broad historical and theoretical perspective, the authors reveal the centrality of time as a contested terrain of workplace and gender politics. Working Time in Transition elucidates the underlying structural and political conflicts that lead to changes in working time regimes in Western nations and Japan. It will be of interest to employers, union leader, state and federal policy makers, economists, and corporation and union researchers. Author note: Karl Hinrichs is Research Associate at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen. William Roche is Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at University College in Dublin. Carmen Siranni is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and the coeditor of the Labor and Social Change Series.