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.
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.
This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living…
Hardback – 2018-10-11
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization,…
Paperback – 2018-08-07
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and classed hierarchies. In the last…
Hardback – 2018-07-09
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
The demise of communism in 1989 in eastern Europe, followed by the break-up of the Soviet Union and the spectacular rise of China and India in the 1990s, brought about a new world order. In eastern Europe communism not only caused large-scale impoverishment and technological slowing, but also…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in…
Hardback – 2017-11-17
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2017-10-12
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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…
Paperback – 2017-06-07
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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…
Paperback – 2016-10-26
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-08-26
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-08-01
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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…
Paperback – 2016-07-27
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour Organisation has identified forced, coerced, and…
Paperback – 2016-07-15
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-04-24
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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…
Paperback – 2015-09-04
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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…
Paperback – 2015-09-04
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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…
Paperback – 2015-09-03
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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…
Paperback – 2012-06-14
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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…
Hardback – 2005-11-17
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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…
Hardback – 2004-09-23
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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…
Paperback – 2003-07-17
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican…
Hardback – 2003-07-03
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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…
Paperback – 2003-04-10
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what…
Paperback – 2002-08-01
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
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Paperback – 2002-06-06
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
There is a general consensus that deep-seated changes are reshaping the way production and work are organized, the way employees, employers and their representatives deal with each other, and the way governments seek to shape society. In this work a group of leading scholars take stock of the…
Paperback – 2002-03-21
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 2000-01-27
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-09-02
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-09-02
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-09-02
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-08-19
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-07-22
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-06-03
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-06-03
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1999-04-15
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces, yet the host-guest interaction is rarely considered from the point of view of the experience of work. This study documents and discusses such a global-local encounter, based on fieldwork…
Hardback – 1997-10-23
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1997-02-20
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 1997-01-02
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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context