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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World

   British Trade Unions under New Labour

   Edited by Gary Daniels, John McIlroy

   Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

   Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade unions. This innovative text locates changes in industrial politics since the 1990s in the...

   Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge
10. European Works Councils and Industrial Relations

    A Transnational Industrial Relations Institution in the Making

    By Jeremy Waddington

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations in recent years. Adopted with the primary goal of facilitating European-level workers’ participation in information-sharing and consultation in multinational companies, EWCs have also...

    Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge