Understanding Work and Employment

Industrial Relations in Transition
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-924066-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life.

This collection analyses, advertises and criticizes the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together 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.

1. Introduction: The British Industrial Relations Tradition; PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES; 2. Sociology and Industrial Relations; 3. Economics and Industrial Relations; 4. Management and Industrial Relations; 5. History and Industrial Relations; 6. Social Psychology and Industrial Relations; 7. Labour Law and Industrial Relations; 8. Politics and Industrial Relations; 9. Geography and Industrial Relations; PART II: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES; 10. Industrial Relations in North America; 11. Industrial Relations in Australia; 12. Industrial Relations in Continental Europe; PART III: FUTURE DIRECTIONS: ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS; 13. Consumer Capitalism and Industrial Relations; 14. Trade Unions and Industrial Relations; 15. Women and Industrial Relations; 16. Marxism and Industrial Relations; 17. Post-Modernism and Industrial Relations; 18. The Future of Industrial Relations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ackers, Peter

Wilkinson, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Ackers is Reader in Employment Relations at Loughborough University Business School. Co-author of New Development in Employee Involvement (Employment Department 1992) and co-editor of The New Workplace and Trade Unionism (Routledge 1996), he has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on industrial relations, the sociology of work, and labour history.

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor of Human Resource Management at Loughborough University Business School. Co-author of New Development in Employee Involvement (Employment Department 1992), Core Personnel and Development (1996), Managing with TQM (1998), and co-editor of Making Quality Critical (1995), he has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on industrial relations, HRM, and TQM.