Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice

This revised edition of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice follows the approach established successfully in preceding volumes edited by Paul Edwards. The focus is on Britain after a decade of public policy which has once again altered the terrain on which employment relations develop. Government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light–touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. Yet this is an open economy, conditioned significantly by developing patterns of international trade and by European Union policy initiatives. This interaction of domestic and cross–national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations runs throughout the volume.
The structure has been amended slightly. Britain is placed straight away in comparative perspective before attention focuses explicitly on employment relations actors, contexts, processes, and outcomes. Each of the chapters is written by authorities in the field and provides up to date analysis and commentary. A spine of chapters from the preceding volume have been revised and extensively updated and new chapters have been added to refine coverage of issues such as the private sector and developing legal institutions.
Overall, a picture emerges of an economy that is in incremental and contested transition. The imperatives of ‘globalization’ now infuse governance mechanisms that were once responsive principally to domestic agenda and employment standards are set now by the state that once were established through collective bargaining. It is this fragile and emerging model that will be tested significantly through sustained political and economic change.


Spis treści:
List of Figures and Tables
List of Common Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1 Work, the Employment Relationship and the Field of Industrial Relations
Trevor Colling and Michael Terry
Section One British Industrial Relations in Comparative Context
2 British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility
Colin Crouch
3 British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension
Richard Hyman
Section Two Actors
4 Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organization
Keith Sisson and John Purcell
5 State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis
Jason Heyes and Peter Nolan
6 Trade Unions: Power and Influence in a Changed Context
Melanie Simms and Andy Charlwood
Section Three Contexts
7 Public Sector Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Modernization
Stephen Bach
8 Industrial Relations in the Private Sector
James Arrowsmith
9 Multinational Companies: Transforming National Industrial Relations?
Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi
10 Industrial Relations in Small Firms
Monder Ram and Paul Edwards
Section Four Processes
11 Negotiation and Collective Bargaining
William Brown
12 Employee Representation
Michael Terry
13 The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations
Linda Dickens and Mark Hall
14 Legal Institutions and the Regulation of Workplaces
Trevor Colling and Linda Dickens
Section Five Outcomes
15 Pay and Working Time: Shifting Contours of the Employment Relationship
Damien Grimshaw and Jill Rubery
16 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance
Paul Edwards and Sukanya Sengupta
17 Skills Policy and the Displacement of Industrial Relations: The Elephant in the Corner?
Ewart Keep, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne
18 Equality and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern
Deborah Dean and Sonia Liff
Index


Okładka tylna:
This revised edition of Industrial R elations: Theory and Practice follows the approach established successfully in preceding volumes edited by Paul Edwards. The focus is on Britain after a decade of public policy which has once again altered the terrain on which employment relations develop. Government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light–touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. Yet this is an open economy, conditioned significantly by developing patterns of international trade and by European Union policy initiatives. This interaction of domestic and cross–national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations runs throughout the volume.
The structure has been amended slightly. Britain is placed straight away in comparative perspective before attention focuses explicitly on employment relations actors, contexts, processes, and outcomes. Each of the chapters is written by authorities in the field and provides up to date analysis and commentary. A spine of chapters from the preceding volume have been revised and extensively updated and new chapters have been added to refine coverage of issues such as the private sector and developing legal institutions.
Overall, a picture emerges of an economy that is in incremental and contested transition. The imperatives of ‘globalization’ now infuse governance mechanisms that were once responsive principally to domestic agenda and employment standards are set now by the state that once were established through collective bargaining. It is this fragile and emerging model that will be tested significantly through sustained political and economic change.