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Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context


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The aim of the Employment and Work Relations in Context Series is to address questions relating to the evolving patterns and politics of work, employment, management and industrial relations. There is a concern to trace out the ways in which wider policy-making, especially by national governments and transnational corporations, impinges upon specific workplaces, occupations, labour markets, localities and regions. This invites attention to developments at an international level, marking out patterns of globalization, state policy and practices in the context of globalization and the impact of these processes on labour. A particular feature of the series is the consideration of forms of worker and citizen organization and mobilization. The studies address major analytical and policy issues through case study and comparative research.

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International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power International Strawberry Commodity Networks

International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks

1st Edition

By Matthew M. Fischer-Daly
April 28, 2023

International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to case studies on strawberry production and sales in ...

Trade Unions and Regions Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Lévesque, Peter Fairbrother, Blandine Emilien, María C. González, Lucie Morissette
August 09, 2022

Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses ...

Crossing Boundaries Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective

Crossing Boundaries: Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective

1st Edition

By Russell D. Lansbury
June 30, 2022

This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to work and employment relations....

The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety Historical and Emerging Trends

The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson, Russell Lansbury, Karin Sanders
July 13, 2020

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place ...

Trade Unions and Global Governance The Debate on a Social Clause

Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause

1st Edition

By Gerda van Roozendaal
August 30, 2002

As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what ...

The State and 'Globalization' Comparative Studies of Labour and Capital in National Economies

The State and 'Globalization': Comparative Studies of Labour and Capital in National Economies

1st Edition

Edited By Martin Upchurch
January 22, 2019

This collection of country studies explores changing relationships between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal market agendas. The authors express concern at ...

History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards

History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards

1st Edition

Edited By Ann Day, Kenneth Lunn
October 24, 2018

Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific characteristics of that pattern of industrial relations. It encompasses discussions of the nature of work and resistance to forms of authority. ...

Women, Work and Trade Unions

Women, Work and Trade Unions

1st Edition

By Anne Munro
October 12, 2017

This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that there is an institutional bias within trade unions which precludes the full representation of women's interests. Based on empirical research into two ...

Wildfire and Power Policy and Practice

Wildfire and Power: Policy and Practice

1st Edition

By Peter Fairbrother, Meagan Tyler
October 11, 2018

This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living ...

Transnational Trade Unionism Building Union Power

Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert
August 07, 2018

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization,...

Transnational Management and Globalised Workers Nurses Beyond Human Resources

Transnational Management and Globalised Workers: Nurses Beyond Human Resources

1st Edition

By Tricia Cleland Silva
July 09, 2018

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and classed hierarchies. In the last ...

The Origins of Worker Mobilisation Australia 1788-1850

The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850

1st Edition

By Michael Quinlan
November 17, 2017

This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in ...

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