1st Edition

Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry An International Perspective

Edited By Dale Belman, Janet Druker, Geoffrey White Copyright 2021
296 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual working practices, for the sometimes abusive use of migrant labor, for gendered male employment and for a neglect of the essentials of health and safety, the industry, its managers and its workforce face... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Janet Druker, Geoffrey White and Dale Belman

Chapter 2. Social Dialogue in the Argentinian Construction Industry

Hernán Ruggirello and Janet Druker.

Chapter 3. Evolving Employment Relations in the Australian Construction Industry

Alex Veen and Susan McGrath-Champ

Chapter 4. The Brazilian Construction Industry: Informality and qualification in question

Marcella Piccoli and Carlos Diehl

Chapter 5. The German Construction Industry at the Crossroads

Gerhard Syben and Christian Beck

Chapter 6. Formality and Informality in sub-Saharan Africa and the Ghanaian construction industry

Divine Kwaku Ahadzie, Yaw Debrah and George Ofori

Chapter 7. Labor Management in the Lebanese Construction Industry

Samar Kleib, Fida Afiouni and Issam Srour

Chapter 8. The Russian Construction Sector: Informality, labor mobility and socialist legacies

Ekaterina Serezhkina, Claudio Morrison and Olga Cretu.

Chapter 9. Sustaining ‘high road’ Employment Relations in the Swedish and Danish Construction Industries

Jens Arnholtz and Christian Lyhne Ibsen

Chapter 10. Self-employment and Labor Relations in the UK Construction Industry

Janet Druker and Geoffrey White

Chapter 11. Creating a Sustainable Industry and Workforce in the U.S. Construction Industry

Dale Belman and Russell Ormiston

Chapter 12. Conclusions

Geoffrey White, Janet Druker and Dale Belman

Biography

Dale Belman is a Professor in the School of Human Resources & Labor Relations at Michigan State University, USA.

Janet Druker is Emeritus Professor in the Business School at the University of Westminster London, UK.

Geoff White is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Management in the Business Faculty at the University of Greenwich, UK.