Understanding Work and Employment Industrial Relations in Transition

by Ackers, Peter; Wilkinson, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780199240661
• ISBN10: 0199240663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This title includes the following features: What does industrialrelations as a disciplinary perspective contribute to the broader social scienceunderstanding of work, employment, and society?; Includes contributors from theUK, the USA, Japan, Australia, and Europe; Broad international appeal

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Foreword: Brian Towers	xii
Introduction: The British Industrial Relations Tradition---Formation, Breakdown, and Salvage	1	(30)
Peter Ackers
Adrian Wilkinson
Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives
Sociology and Industrial Relations	31	(12)
Ian Roberts
Economics and Industrial Relations	43	(28)
Damian Grimshaw
Jill Rubery
Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations	71	(18)
Nick Bacon
History and Industrial Relations	89	(30)
David Lyddon
Psychology and Industrial Relations	119	(19)
Chris Brotherton
Labour Law and Industrial Relations	138	(23)
Keith Ewing
Politics and Industrial Relations	161	(15)
Roderick Martin
Geography and Industrial Relations	176	(19)
Andrew Herod
Jamie Peck
Jane Wills
Part II. Comparative Perspectives
Industrial Relations in North America	195	(32)
Bruce Kaufman
Industrial Relations in Australia	227	(15)
Russell Lansbury
Grant Michelson
Industrial Relations in Continental Europe	242	(23)
Carola Frege
Part III. Future Directions---Issues and Arguments
Consumer Capitalism and Industrial Relations	265	(13)
Marek Korczynski
Trade Unions and Industrial Relations	278	(27)
Edmund Heery
Women and Industrial Relations	305	(11)
Anne-Marie Greene
Marxism and Industrial Relations	316	(9)
Gregor Gall
Post-Modernism and Industrial Relations	325	(12)
John Eldridge
The Future of Industrial Relations	337	(22)
Paul Edwards
Index	359