Industrial Relations: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management / Edition 1

by John Kelly

Overview

Until recently, the study of industrial relations centred around trade unions, collective bargaining and strikes - often in the manufacturing industry. Union decline and de-industrialization in the advanced capitalist world have raised major issues about the relevance of this focus. As a result, there is growing interest in alternative forms of worker representation, often in conjunction with Human Resource Management. Union decline is by no means universal, however, even in Europe, and there are regions of the world (South East Asia, some African countries and parts of Latin America) where unions are powerful and growing organisations.
This set captures the complexity of the field of industrial relations globally, as well as the continuing relevance of competing theoretical approaches to the subject. The selection covers neglected topics such as feminism, debates about post-modernism and the links between labour movements and politics. It combines classical texts with the latest controversies.
The set covers:
* approaches, industrial relations systems and context
* trade unions: goals and forms, decline and growth
* employers and multinational corporations
* the state
* worker representation: collective bargaining and beyond
* conflict and cooperation
* looking to the future
* Selections focusing on the UK, USA, Germany, Eastern Europe, Japan and Africa.
There is a detailed index and new introduction to guide the reader through this complex field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415229869
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2001
Series:	Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
Pages:	1936
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author and coauthor of ten books on science, medicine, and human behavior, including Three on the Edge, which Publishers Weekly called the work of "an expert storyteller." He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Volume One: Approaches to Industrial Relations and Trends in National Systems
Part 1: Approaches to the Field of Industrial Relations
Part 2: Changing National Systems of Industrial Relations
Volume Two: Labour Markets, Labour Process and Trade Unionism
Part 3: Trends in Employment, Work and Pay
Part 4: Trade Unions
Volume Three: Employers and the State
Part 5: Employers and Multinational Corporations
Part 6: The State
Volume Four: Worker Representation and Labour-Management Relations
Part 7: Worker Representation: Collective Bargaining and Beyond?
Part 8: Industrial Conflict
Volume Five: Labour-Management Co-operation and the Future of Industrial Relations
Part 9: Labour-Management and Co-operation
Part 10: Looking to the Future