Comparative employment relations in the global economy /

This title presents a cross-section of country studies, including all four BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China alongside integrative thematic chapters covering all the important topics needed to excel in this field. The textbook also benefits from the editors' and contributors'...

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Group Author: Frege, Carola M., 1965; Kelly, John E., 1952
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: This title presents a cross-section of country studies, including all four BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China alongside integrative thematic chapters covering all the important topics needed to excel in this field. The textbook also benefits from the editors' and contributors' experience as leading scholars in employment relations.
Carrier Form: xxiii, 459 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780415686631
0415686636
0203766644
9780203766644
Index Number: HD6971
CLC: F246
Call Number: F246/C737
Contents: PART 1 Comparative employment relations -- 1 Introduction: global challenges at work / JOHN KELLY AND CAROLA FREGE -- 2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations / CAROLA FREGE AND JOHN KELLY -- PART 2 The content of employment regulation -- 3 Individual employee rights at work / CYNTHIA ESTLUND -- 4 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics / RICHARD HYMAN AND REBECCA GUMBRELL-McCORMICK -- 5 The experience of work in comparative perspective / PATRICK McGOVERN -- 6 HRM, organizational performance and employee involvement / STEPHEN WOOD -- 7 Employment re
PART 4 Transnational regulation -- 20 Globalization / SAROSH KURUVILLA AND TASHLIN LAKHANI -- 21 Voluntary regulation: codes of practice and framework agreements / MICHAEL FICHTER -- 22 Regional regulation: the EU and NAFTA / MONIKA EWA KAMINSKA -- 23 International regulation: the ILO and other agencies / KEITH D. EWING.