Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations by Michael Barry (English)

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The Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations is an essential resource for those seeking to understand contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the world.

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The Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations is an essential resource for those seeking to understand contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the world. Special consideration is given to the impact of globalization and the role of multinational corporations, including their consequences for the fate of workers' rights under existing national systems of employment relations (ER) regulation. This Handbook is unique in taking an explicitly comparative approach by discussing ER developments through a series of paired country comparisons. These chapters include a wide selection of countries from all regions, looking beyond those that are frequently discussed. The expert contributors also examine comparative issues from a range of perspectives, including industrial and employment relations, political economy, comparative politics, and cross-cultural studies. These impressive features make this important reference tool the most comprehensive of its kind. Academics and students in final-year undergraduate and postgraduate courses interested in employment relations will find this compendium enriching and insightful.Contributors include: M. Atzeni, L. Baccarro, M. Barry, D. Collings, F.L. Cooke, S. Cooney, T. Dundon, F. Duran, I. Forstenlechner, P. Gahan, P. Gunnigle, T. Jackson, E.H. Jung, B. Kaufman, J. Kelly, J. Lavelle, K. Mellahi, R. Mitchell, P. Pochet, T. Royle, A. Verma, N. Wailes, A. Wilkinson, G. Wood, S. Zalgermeyer

Author Biography

Edited by Michael Barry, Professor, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith University and Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. Re-examining Comparative Employment RelationsMichael Barry and Adrian WilkinsonPART II: PERSPECTIVES2. Comparative Employment Relations: Institutional and Neo-institutional TheoriesBruce E. Kaufman3. The Political Economy of Comparative Employment RelationsJohn Kelly4. Legal Origins, Labour Law and the Regulation of Employment RelationsSean Cooney, Peter Gahan and Richard Mitchell5. Cross-cultural StudiesTerence JacksonPART III: PAIRED COUNTRY COMPARISONS6. Employment Relations in Chile and ArgentinaMaurizio Atzeni, Fernando Durán-Palma and Pablo Ghigliani7. Employment Relations in Canada and the USSara Slinn and Richard W. Hurd8. Employment Relations in China and IndiaFang Lee Cooke9. Employment Relations in the United Kingdom and Republic of IrelandTony Dundon and David G. Collings10. Employment Relations in Japan and KoreaEeHwan Jung11. Employment Relations in Belgium and the NetherlandsHester Houwing, Maarten Keune, Philippe Pochet and Kurt Vandaele12. Employment Relations in Australia and New ZealandNick Wailes13. Employment Relations in South Africa and MozambiqueGeoffrey Wood14. Employment Relations in France and GermanyStefan Zagelmeyer15. Employment Relations in Oil-rich Gulf CountriesKamel Mellahi and Ingo ForstenlechnerPART IV: BROADER COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES16. Corporatism Meets Neoliberalism: The Irish and Italian Cases in Comparative PerspectiveLucio Baccaro17. The Role of MNEsDavid G. Collings, Jonathan Lavelle and Patrick Gunnigle18. Regulating Global Capital through Public and Private Codes: An Analysis of International Labour Standards and Corporate Voluntary InitiativesTony RoyleIndex

Review

'This Research Handbook is a highly readable and thought-provoking account of comparative employment relations in current published texts. The breadth and depth of this book are remarkable and it will serve as a very valuable introductory text to students and researchers interested in comparative employment relations and global governance of employment relations.' -- Wei Huang, Work, Employment and Society'Besides a well-written introduction by the two editors, the book presents seventeen other chapters, some by well-known writers on the subject or related social sciences. . . This is a substantial resource book for scholars and students of comparative ER, especially for those who look towards the evolution of ER in the new economic world that is in formation, and in a comparative perspective. . . the book contains intellectually stimulating analyses of employee relations realities across the globe. . . Scholars belonging to different disciplinary perspectives, from which ER has been studied in the past, will also find in it a good reference material of comparative analyses. . . The publishers too deserve accolades for their professionalism and first rate copy-editing and production.' -- Debi S. Saini, Vision - the Journal of Business Perspectives'The book is a comprehensive volume of studies on employment relations in a wide variety of settings. . .an enriching compendium.' -- Silvia Florea, Management of Sustainable Development

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This research hand-book is a highly readable and thought-provoking account of comparative employment relations in current published texts. The breadth and depth of this book are remarkable and it will serve as a very valuable introductory text to students and researchers inter-ested in comparative employment relations and global governance of employment relations.

Details ISBN1847208894 Author Adrian Wilkinson Pages 480 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-10 1847208894 ISBN-13 9781847208897 Language English Year 2011 Format Hardcover Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2011-07-29 NZ Release Date 2011-07-29 UK Release Date 2011-07-29 Publication Date 2011-07-29 Series New Horizons in Management series Edited by Adrian Wilkinson DEWEY 344.01 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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