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Routledge Research in Employment Relations

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  1. Voice and Involvement at Work

    Experience with Non-Union Representation

    Edited by Paul Gollan, Bruce Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the last decade in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. Two reasons account for this. The first is the long-term and cumulatively substantial decline in trade union...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

    By Damian Grimshaw

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Gender and Leadership in Unions: Kirton

    By Gill Kirton, Geraldine Healy

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership

    Edited by Sue Ledwith, Lise Lotte Hansen

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various...

    Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge

  5. Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations

    Edited by Miguel Martinez Lucio, Mark Stuart

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    This collection examines the significance of partnership-based approaches to the modernization of employment relations. Drawing from the work of leading researchers the contemporary interest in partnership is situated within an historical, political and practical context. Particular attention is...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Men, Wage Work and Family

    Edited by Paula McDonald, Emma Jeanes

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Trade Unions and Workplace Training

    Issues and International Perspectives

    Edited by Richard Cooney, Mark Stuart

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union...

    Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Partnership at Work

    The Quest for Radical Organizational Change

    By William K Roche, John F. Geary

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts the progress, achievements and obstacles faced by the partnership based on...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

  9. Social Failures of EU Enlargement

    A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet

    By Guglielmo Meardi

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  10. The Politics of Industrial Relations

    Labor Unions in Spain

    By Kerstin Hamann

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from...

    Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Dynamics of Partnership in Financial Services
    By Peter Samuel
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization
    Edited by Jim Arrowsmith, Valeria Pulignano
    To Be Published June 23rd 2013
  3. Union Organizing, Mobilization, and Revitalization: The Case of the RMT
    By Ralph Darlington
    To Be Published September 30th 2013

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