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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Routledge,
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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 relations and economic performance / EILEEN APPELBAUM AND JOHN SCHMITT -- 8 Employment relations, welfare and politics / ANKE HASSEL -- PART 3 Employment regulation in national contexts -- 9 The United States / GERALD FRIEDMAN -- 10 The United Kingdom / JOHN KELLY -- 11 France / NICK PARSONS -- 12 Germany / MARTIN BEHRENS -- 13 Sweden / TORSTEN SVENSSON -- 14 Japan / D. HUGH WHITTAKER -- 15 Brazil / MARK S. ANNER AND JOAO PAULO CANDIA VEIGA -- 16 Russia / SARAH ASHWIN AND IRINA KOZINA -- 17 India / VIDU BADIGANNAVAR -- 18 China / MINGWEI LIU -- 19 South Africa / ROGER SOUTHALL 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. |