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Title Understanding work and employment : industrial relations in transition / edited by Peter Ackers, Adrian Wilkinson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description xvi, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: About the Editors ix -- Notes on Contributors x -- Foreword: Brian Towers xii -- 1. Introduction: The British Industrial Relations Tradition- -- Formation, Breakdown, and Salvage 1 -- Peter Ackers and Adrian Wilkinson -- -- -- Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives -- -- 2. Sociology and Industrial Relations 31 -- Ian Roberts -- 3. Economics and Industrial Relations 43 -- Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery -- 4. Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations 71 -- Nick Bacon -- 5. History and Industrial Relations 89 -- David Lyddon -- 6. Psychology and Industrial Relations 119 -- Chris Brotherton -- 7. Labour Law and Industrial Relations 138 -- Keith Ewing -- 8. Politics and Industrial Relations 161 -- Roderick Martin -- 9. Geography and Industrial Relations 176 -- Andrew Herod, Jamie Peck, and Jane Wills -- -- -- Part II. Comparative Perspectives -- -- 10. Industrial Relations in North America 195 -- Bruce Kaufman -- 11. Industrial Relations in Australia 227 -- Russell Lansbury and Grant Michelson -- 12. Industrial Relations in Continental Europe 242 -- Carola Frege -- -- -- -- Part III. Future Directions-Issues and Arguments -- -- 13. Consumer Capitalism and Industrial Relations 265 -- Marek Korczynski -- 14. Trade Unions and Industrial Relations 278 -- Edmund Heery -- 15. Women and Industrial Relations 305 -- Anne-Marie Greene -- 16. Marxism and Industrial Relations 316 -- Gregor Gall -- 17. Post-Modernism and Industrial Relations 325 -- John Eldridge -- 18. The Future of Industrial Relations 337 -- Paul Edwards -- Index 359
Summary "This collection aims to analyse, advertise and criticize the contributions of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together leading scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life, to learn what it can gain from a stronger engagement with these surrounding disciplines and national traditions." - back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Industrial relations.
Work.
Employment (Economic theory)
Author Ackers, Peter, 1957-
Wilkinson, Adrian, 1963-
LC no. 2003278005
ISBN 0199259038 paperback
0199240663 hardback
Other Titles Understanding work & employment