3. Edition - February 2010
51.90 Euro
2010. 494 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4443-0885-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0885-3 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
In this updated edition, Industrial Relations provides more detailed guidance on legal and institutional changes. This revised text incorporates the most recent findings of the government-sponsored survey, the Work and Employee Relations Survey. More accessible to students, the Third Edition discusses the effects of international and European developments on British Industrial Relations. As before, Industrial Relations brings together leading experts in the field to examine the current nature of the employment relationship.

From the contents
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