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1. Managerialism, Public Sector Reform and Industrial Relations

   The State at Work

   Edited by Peter Fairbrother

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   This book addresses the key debates about public services reform in the last decade. The focus is on providing a detailed and critical analysis of both the restructuring of the public services, the emergence of a more managerially-organised public service and trade union responses to those...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Unions and Globalisation

   Governments, Management, and the State at Work

   By Peter Fairbrother, John O'Brien, Anne Junor, Michael O'Donnell, Glynne Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Globalisation, State and Labour

   Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour. It shows how although the world is undergoing...

   Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge
4. Trade Unions in Renewal

   A Comparative Study

   Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Charlotte Yates

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the...

   Published April 9th 2003 by Routledge
5. Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism

   Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Gerard Griffin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Published June 5th 2002 by Routledge