Contents:
1. The Changing Face of Work and Employment Relations
Adrian Wilkinson and Keith Townsend
PART I: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS THEORY
2. The Future of Employment Relations: Insights from Theory
Bruce E. Kaufman
3. Finding the Future in the Past? The Social Philosophy of Oxford
Industrial Relations Pluralism
Peter Ackers
PART II: ACTORS
4. The State and Employment Relations
Jason Heyes and Ian Clark
5. Union Strategy and Circumstance: Bank to the Future and Forward
to the Past?
Gregor Gall
6. Concerted Capital: Understanding Employer Interests and the Role
of Employer Coordination in Contemporary Employment Relations
Michael Barry
7. New and Emerging Actors in Work and Employment Relations: The
Case of Civil Society Organizations
Steve Williams, Brian Abbott and Edmund Heery
8. Employment Relations and Managerial Work: An International
Perspective
John Hassard, Leo McCann and Jonathan Morris
PART III: RETHINKING LABOUR
9. Skills in the Twenty-first Century Organization: The Career of a
Notion
Anne Fearfull and Martin Dowling
10. Working Time in the Employment Relationship: Working Time,
Perceived Control and Work–life Balance
Lonnie Golden, Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Susan J. Lambert and Julia R.
Henly
11. Migration and Labour Markets: An Interpretation of the
Literature
Tom Lusis and Harald Bauder
12. Child Labor
Scott Lyon and Furio Rosati
PART IV: CHANGING CONTEXTS
13. Flexicurity: Still Going Strong or a Victim of the Crisis?
Peter Auer and Kazutoshi Chatani
14. Governance, Finance and Employment Relations
Geoffrey Wood
15. Employment Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility
Steve Brammer
16. Industrial Relations in China: Ball of Confusion?
E. Patrick McDermott
PART V: TOWARDS A FAIRER WORKPLACE?
17. Equity in the Twenty-first Century Workplace
Glenda Strachan, John Burgess and Erica French
18. Dimensions of Dignity: Defining the Future of Work
Sharon Bolton
19. Justice in the Twenty-first Century Organization
Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro and Rashpal K. Dhensa
Index
Edited by Keith Townsend, Professor of Human Resources and Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University and Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
‘This is an enlightening text on the subject of employment and work
relations that will be useful for students in economics,
specifically those studying labor relations.’
*Lucy Heckman, American Reference Books Annual 2012*
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