Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations by Keith Townse

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The broad field of employment relations is diverse and complex and is under constant development and reinvention. This Research Handbook discusses fundamental theories and approaches to work and employment relations, and their connection to broader political and societal changes occurring throughout the world.

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The broad field of employment relations is diverse and complex and is under constant development and reinvention. This Research Handbook discusses fundamental theories and approaches to work and employment relations, and their connection to broader political and societal changes occurring throughout the world. It provides comprehensive coverage of work and employment relations theory and practice. This up-to-date research compendium has drawn together a range of international authors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. There are chapters from labor historians, theoreticians, more mainstream industrial relations scholars, sociologists, organizational psychologists, geographers, policy advisors, economists and lawyers. At the heart of each chapter is the notion that the world of work and employment relations has changed substantially since the halcyon days of IR, throughout the Dunlop Era of the 1950s. However many areas of enquiry remain, and more questions have developed with society and technology. This Handbook reflects this view. As the field of study and practice continues to evolve throughout the twenty-first century - what lessons have we learned from the past and what can we expect in the future? Academics and postgraduate students researching industrial relations, human resource management, employment relations, industrial sociology and sociology of work will find this important resource invaluable.

Author Biography

Edited by Keith Townsend, Professor of Human Resources and Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Australia 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:1. The Changing Face of Work and Employment RelationsAdrian Wilkinson and Keith TownsendPART I: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS THEORY2. The Future of Employment Relations: Insights from TheoryBruce E. Kaufman3. Finding the Future in the Past? The Social Philosophy of Oxford Industrial Relations PluralismPeter AckersPART II: ACTORS4. The State and Employment RelationsJason Heyes and Ian Clark5. Union Strategy and Circumstance: Bank to the Future and Forward to the Past?Gregor Gall6. Concerted Capital: Understanding Employer Interests and the Role of Employer Coordination in Contemporary Employment RelationsMichael Barry7. New and Emerging Actors in Work and Employment Relations: The Case of Civil Society OrganizationsSteve Williams, Brian Abbott and Edmund Heery8. Employment Relations and Managerial Work: An International PerspectiveJohn Hassard, Leo McCann and Jonathan MorrisPART III: RETHINKING LABOUR9. Skills in the Twenty-first Century Organization: The Career of a NotionAnne Fearfull and Martin Dowling10. Working Time in the Employment Relationship: Working Time, Perceived Control and Work–life BalanceLonnie Golden, Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Susan J. Lambert and Julia R. Henly11. Migration and Labour Markets: An Interpretation of the LiteratureTom Lusis and Harald Bauder12. Child LaborScott Lyon and Furio RosatiPART IV: CHANGING CONTEXTS13. Flexicurity: Still Going Strong or a Victim of the Crisis?Peter Auer and Kazutoshi Chatani14. Governance, Finance and Employment RelationsGeoffrey Wood15. Employment Relations and Corporate Social ResponsibilitySteve Brammer16. Industrial Relations in China: Ball of Confusion?E. Patrick McDermottPART V: TOWARDS A FAIRER WORKPLACE?17. Equity in the Twenty-first Century WorkplaceGlenda Strachan, John Burgess and Erica French18. Dimensions of Dignity: Defining the Future of WorkSharon Bolton19. Justice in the Twenty-first Century OrganizationJacqueline Coyle-Shapiro and Rashpal K. DhensaIndex

Review

'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

Review Quote

'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.'

Details ISBN1783470267 Author Adrian Wilkinson Pages 432 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-10 1783470267 ISBN-13 9781783470266 Language English Year 2013 Format Paperback Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2013-07-30 NZ Release Date 2013-07-30 UK Release Date 2013-07-30 Publication Date 2013-07-30 Series Research Handbooks in Business and Management series Edited by Adrian Wilkinson DEWEY 331.072 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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