Chapter 1: Introducing Employment Relations
Chapter 2: A Very Short History on Employment Relations and Its
Perspectives
Chapter 3: Casinos, Crises and Cutbacks: the Context for Employment
Relations
Chapter 4: Who’s Who in Employment Relations?
Chapter 5: Collaboration and Consent: Cooperation at Work
Chapter 6: Strikes and Strife: Conflict at Work
Chapter 7: Having a Say: Earnings and Working Time
Chapter 8: Some Concluding Thoughts: ER Education, Immiseration and
Automation
Tony Dundon is Professor of Human Resource Management and
Employment Relations at the Kemmy Business School, University of
Limerick, Ireland; and Visiting Professor at the Work & Equalities
Institute (WEI), Alliance Manchester Business School, University of
Manchester, UK; and a Visiting Honorary Professor at University of
St Andrews Management School. Tony’s research areas include
employment relations, human resource management and organisational
performance, employee voice and trade union organising. He is a
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), former Chief
Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
(CIPD), Consulting Editor for the International Journal of
Management Reviews (IJMR) and International Advisory Board Member
of Work, Employment and Society (WES). Tony has held visiting
positions at Sydney University; Deakin University, Melbourne;
Toulouse Business School, France; and Queensland University of
Technology. His books include Understanding Employment Relations,
(2nd edition, McGraw Hill, 2011); A very short, fairly interesting
and reasonably cheap book about employment relations (Sage, 2017),
The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (Routledge, 2018),
Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management
(Elgar, 2020), and Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (2nd
edition, Edward Elgar, 2020).
Niall Cullinane is senior lecturer in HRM and Employment Relations,
Queen’s University Management School.
He has published previously in Economic and Industrial Democracy,
Work Employment and Society, Industrial Law Journal and Human
Relations.
Adrian Wilkinson is Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane,
Australia and is Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield
and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human
Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of
Cambridge. Adrian has authored, co-authored and edited some 30
books, over 150 articles in refereed journals and numerous book
chapters. Recent books (with co-authors): The Oxford Handbook
of Management (OUP, 2017), A very short, fairly interesting and
reasonably cheap book about employment relations (Sage, 2017), The
Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (Routledge, 2018), The
Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management (Sage, 2019), The Future
of Work and Employment (Elgar, 2020), Case Studies in Work,
Employment and Human Resource Management (Elgar, 2020) and the
Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (Elgar, 2020.)
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development in the UK and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resource
Institute. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
An accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of employment relations that also sheds light on broader social and economic dilemmas we face. The authors are provocative - hitting the important tensions and contradictions facing working people today - with rich anecdotes from popular media and culture that bring the underlying academic research to life. -- Rosemary Batt This book provides an elegant, insightful and concise introduction to the field of Employment Relations. It is essential reading for anyone entering the field as a student and is an equally essential aid for anyone teaching in the subject area. -- Edmund Heery I really did enjoy and chuckle reading this. And boy did it take me back! Without wishing to sound too irreverent I can only conclude: Despite having rubbish jokes and a terrible taste in music, the authors have written a book that makes ER genuinely interesting. -- Dr Peter Dwyer This book is short and reasonably cheap but also intensely interesting, informative and entertaining! The authors convincingly demonstrate that employment relations are important not only for anyone in today's workforce but also for how social wealth and income are distributed throughout society. It should be on every business school's reading list. -- Russell Lansbury Dundon, Cullinane & Wilkinson's A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Employment Relations may indeed be short and quirky. More importantly however it is substantial in content, balanced in approach and characterised by an engaging contemporary orientation, addressing as it does precarious work, low/zero hours contracts and the impact of technology and robotics on work and working lives. It also provides a critical and informed analysis of the impact of globalisation and financialisation. I have no doubt that students will like it. Who couldn't like an ER text that uses "Johnny Rotten's sneer" to illustrate the growth of radicalism in the 1970s? -- Dr Patrick Gunnigle
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