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Understanding Work and Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition

Understanding Work and Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition


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This collection aims to analyse, advertise, and criticize the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together leading scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life, to learn what it can gain from a stronger engagement with these surrounding disciplines and national traditions. The introduction provides a critical, though broadly sympathetic, outline of the development of the mainstream industrial relations tradition. Part One recognizes the interdisciplinary character of industrial relations by concentrating on 'border encounters' with the cognate academic disciplines of sociology, economics, management, history, psychology, law, politics, and geography. Of particular interest is how far industrial relations has contributed to social science understanding beyond its own narrow borders. Part Two combines a major critical analysis of the American school, with three shorter discussions of Australia, Europe, and Japan. Part Three looks forward to the potential contribution of industrial relations to our understanding of work, employment, and society by identifying a variety of key dilemmas and debates which call for new interdisciplinary thinking. Finally, the book ends with a critical reassessment of the industrial relations tradition.

Table of Contents:
1: Peter Ackers and Adrian Wilkinson: Introduction: The British Industrial Relations Tradition Part I: Disciplinary Perspectives 2: Ian Roberts: Sociology and Industrial Relations 3: Jill Rubery and Damian Grimshaw: Economics and Industrial Relations 4: Nick Bacon: Management and Industrial Relations 5: David Lyddon: History and Industrial Relations 6: Chris Brotherton: Social Psychology and Industrial Relations 7: Keith Ewing: Labour Law and Industrial Relations 8: Roderick Martin: Politics and Industrial Relations 9: Andrew Herod, Jamie Peck, and Jane Wills: Geography and Industrial Relations Part II: Comparative Perspectives 10: Bruce Kaufman: Industrial Relations in North America 11: Russell Lansbury and Grant Michelson: Industrial Relations in Australia 12: Carola Frege: Industrial Relations in Continental Europe Part III: Future Directions: Issues and Arguments 13: Marek Korczynski: Consumer Capitalism and Industrial Relations 14: Edmund Heery: Trade Unions and Industrial Relations 15: Anne-Marie Greene: Women and Industrial Relations 16: Gregor Gall: Marxism and Industrial Relations 17: John Eldridge: Post-Modernism and Industrial Relations 18: Paul Edwards: The Future of Industrial Relations

About the Author :
Peter Ackers is Reader in Employment Relations at Loughborough University Business School. Co-author of New Development in Employee Involvement (Employment Department 1992) and co-editor of The New Workplace and Trade Unionism (Routledge 1996), he has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on industrial relations, the sociology of work, and labour history. Adrian Wilkinson is Professor of Human Resource Management at Loughborough University Business School. Co-author of New Development in Employee Involvement (Employment Department 1992), Core Personnel and Development (1996), Managing with TQM (1998), and co-editor of Making Quality Critical (1995), he has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on industrial relations, HRM, and TQM.

Review :
This is a collection which every labour historian should read. These eighteen essays offer a succinct summary of recent scholarship and challenge us to think deeply about contemporary discussions of work and the labour markets. They also provoke us to consider the utility and value of historical study in such debates ... This important collection identifies a number of points at which historians can usefully intervene in current discussions on employment relations. Labour History Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199259038
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Industrial Relations in Transition
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199259038
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2003
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 582 gr


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