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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

Series Editor: Dr Peter Fairbrother, Dr Tony Elger

The aim of the Employment and Work Relations in Context Series is to address questions relating to the evolving patterns and politics of work, employment, management and industrial relations. There is a concern to trace out the ways in which wider policy-making, especially by national governments and transnational corporations, impinges upon specific workplaces, occupations, labour markets, localities and regions. This invites attention to developments at an international level, marking out patterns of globalization, state policy and practices in the context of globalization and the impact of these processes on labour. A particular feature of the series is the consideration of forms of worker and citizen organization and mobilization. The studies address major analytical and policy issues through case study and comparative research.

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  1. Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

    Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

    Edited by Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework...

    Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Sexualities, Work and Organizations

    By James Ward

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Privatization of Public Services

    Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe

    Edited by Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

  4. 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

  5. Social Regionalism in the Global Economy

    Edited by Adelle Blackett, Christian Lévesque

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to addressing labour...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

  6. Industrial Relations in Education

    Transforming the School Workforce

    By Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to...

    Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge

  7. Vocational Training

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young...

    Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

  8. 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

  9. Employment Relations in the Health Service

    By Stephen Bach

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level. Bringing together analyses of both employment...

    Published September 22nd 2004 by Routledge

  10. Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital

    By Jamie Gough

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment. Jamie Gough explores the connections between labour process change, products, local economy and society, spaces and...

    Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power
    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert
    To Be Published February 18th 2013
  2. Temporary Work, Agencies, and Unfree Labor: Insecurity in the New World of Work
    Edited by Kendra Strauss, Judy Fudge
    To Be Published June 29th 2013

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