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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.
Russell D. Lansbury
December 29, 2020
This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to work and employment relations....
Michael G. Quinlan
August 11, 2020
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation. The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and ...
Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson, Russell D. Lansbury, Karin Sanders
July 13, 2020
The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place ...
Gerda van Roozendaal
August 01, 2002
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 ...
Martin Upchurch
August 19, 1999
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Jeremy Waddinton
September 02, 1999
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Ann Day, Kenneth Lunn
July 22, 1999
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Anne Munro
October 12, 2017
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Peter Fairbrother, Meagan Tyler
October 11, 2018
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 ...
Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert
August 07, 2018
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,...
Tricia Cleland Silva
July 09, 2018
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 ...
Piotr Zientara
June 08, 2018
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 ...