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Routledge Research in Employment Relations


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Aspects of the employment relationship are central to numerous courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Drawing from insights from industrial relations, human resource management and industrial sociology, this series provides an alternative source of research-based materials and texts, reviewing key developments in employment research. Books published in this series are works of high academic merit, drawn from a wide range of academic studies in the social sciences.

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Workers, Power and Society Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism

Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jens Arnholtz, Bjarke Refslund
June 03, 2024

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in ...

Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg

Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Peter Ackers
April 17, 2024

Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the ...

Contemporary Employers’ Organizations Adaptation and Resilience

Contemporary Employers’ Organizations: Adaptation and Resilience

1st Edition

Edited By Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier
January 29, 2024

This book argues that employers’ organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. Adaptation has been prompted by changing economic and social contexts, including state interventions and union activities. Contexts vary over time, across ...

Employment Relations as Networks Methods and Theory

Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Bernd Brandl, Bengt Larsson, Alex Lehr, Oscar Molina
January 29, 2024

Traditional approaches in the wide field of employment relations focused on a small and clearly delineated set of actors, such as trade unions and employers’ organizations, operating within the constraints given by formal, nationally confined institutions. It is becoming increasingly clear that ...

Employment Relations and Global Governance The Dialogue between the Global Unions and the IFIs

Employment Relations and Global Governance: The Dialogue between the Global Unions and the IFIs

1st Edition

By Yvonne Rueckert
July 07, 2023

Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty. International crises such as the international financial and economic crisis of 2008, and more recently the global health pandemic, have led to a rise in ...

Employment, Trade Unionism, and Class The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis

Employment, Trade Unionism, and Class: The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis

1st Edition

By Gregoris Ioannou
May 31, 2023

The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe. This book provides a critical comparative assessment of the dynamics of change in the employment field, focusing on Spain, ...

Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry An International Perspective

Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Dale Belman, Janet Druker, Geoffrey White
August 29, 2022

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...

Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries

Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Holland, Chris Brewster
February 04, 2020

Whilst only in the second decade of the 21st century, we have seen significant and fundamental change in the way we work, where we work, how we work and the conditions of work. The continued advancements of (smart) technology and artificial intelligence, globalisation and deregulation can provide a...

The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management: Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

1st Edition

By Ruth Elizabeth Slater
November 14, 2019

Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice, and a societal domain in ...

Posted Work in the European Union The Political Economy of Free Movement

Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement

1st Edition

Edited By Jens Arnholtz, Nathan Lillie
October 14, 2019

Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional ...

Workplace Attachments Managing Beneath the Surface

Workplace Attachments: Managing Beneath the Surface

1st Edition

By James Grady, Victoria Grady, Patrick McCreesh, Ian Noakes
July 10, 2019

How fast can your organization change? How long does it take to adopt new technology? Do things run the same when you bring in a new leader? How does the culture evolve with new acquisitions? There is an underlying thread in all these questions. Workplace attachment or our instinctual (biological) ...

Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions Challenging the Regime in Egypt

Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: Challenging the Regime in Egypt

1st Edition

By Heba F. El-Shazli
June 03, 2019

“We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed,” say Egyptian workers with strong conviction and passion. Egyptian independent workers’ continuous claims of contention and protest repertoires were one of several main factors leading to the January  25, 2011, uprising. After ...

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