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The French Workers' Movement - Economic Crisis and Political Change (Hardcover): Mark Kesselman The French Workers' Movement - Economic Crisis and Political Change (Hardcover)
Mark Kesselman
R2,547 Discovery Miles 25 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1984. This volume brings together many of the foremost French and North American specialists on the French working class movement. Although they differ substantially in their theoretical and ideological orientation, they share a left perspective. Their original essays provide a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the history of the movement, focusing on the constraints and opportunities created by the economic crisis of the 1970s and the political change ushered in by the Socialist Party's victory in 1981.

British Trade Unionism To-Day (Hardcover): G.D.H. Cole British Trade Unionism To-Day (Hardcover)
G.D.H. Cole
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1939. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1930s, both in general and in each of the principal industries and services. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history, before examining Trade Unions in various industries, including mining, transport, and the postal service. British Trade Unionism To-Day will be of great interest to students and scholars of labour and political history.

Towards a European Labour Identity - The Case of the European Works Council (Hardcover): Michael Whittall, Herman Knudsen, Fred... Towards a European Labour Identity - The Case of the European Works Council (Hardcover)
Michael Whittall, Herman Knudsen, Fred Huijgen
R3,499 R1,194 Discovery Miles 11 940 Save R2,305 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since 1996 a growing number of European employees have access to a European works council (EWC), a transnational employee body designed to complement national forms of labour representation . This volume brings together a hep hive of contributors who present valuable new insights into how employee representatives from different European countries perform their jobs as members of European Works Councils in an attempt to develop some sense of a common European labour identity

The transnational character of the EWC makes it an ideal microscopic structure through which the wider discourse surrounding identity a " especially when associated with globalization, Europeanization, and mobility a " can occur. a ~Towards a European Labour Identitya (TM) examines not only the workings of the EWCs, utilising individual case studies, but also analyses and asses the link with the broader discussions on European identity as well as European trade union co-ordination and solidarity.

Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (Hardcover): Norma M. Riccucci Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (Hardcover)
Norma M. Riccucci
R3,660 Discovery Miles 36 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard public administration text covering human resource management. Selected mainly from the pages of Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration, these classic articles trace the historical and evolutionary development of the fields of public personnel administration and labor relations from the point at which the first civil service law was passed - the Pendelton Act in 1883 - through the 21st century. The collection covers everything from the seminal concerns of civil service (e.g., keeping spoils out) to topics that early reformers would never have envisioned (e.g., affirmative action and drug testing). These works continue to inform the theory and practice of public personnel and labor relations. To facilitate an instructor's ability to assign readings that illuminate lectures and course material, a correlation matrix on the M.E. Sharpe website shows how this book can be used easily alongside eight leading textbooks.

Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (Paperback, New Ed): Norma M. Riccucci Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (Paperback, New Ed)
Norma M. Riccucci
R1,272 Discovery Miles 12 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard public administration text covering human resource management. Selected mainly from the pages of Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration, these classic articles trace the historical and evolutionary development of the fields of public personnel administration and labor relations from the point at which the first civil service law was passed - the Pendelton Act in 1883 - through the 21st century. The collection covers everything from the seminal concerns of civil service (e.g., keeping spoils out) to topics that early reformers would never have envisioned (e.g., affirmative action and drug testing). These works continue to inform the theory and practice of public personnel and labor relations. To facilitate an instructor's ability to assign readings that illuminate lectures and course material, a correlation matrix on the M.E. Sharpe website shows how this book can be used easily alongside eight leading textbooks.

Industrial Relations in Korea - Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover):... Industrial Relations in Korea - Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
Jooyeon Jeong
R4,352 Discovery Miles 43 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A key factor in Korea's economic success is the nature of industrial relations in Korean business and industry. Joo-Yeon Jeong presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of industrial relations in Korea. He shows how union membership has changed over recent decades, and how the focus of bargaining has widened from purely financial considerations to include a much wider range of issues including, principally, issues related to job security. In addition, the book considers the role of government in shaping the legal and institutional environment, and of employers, who have taken a more aggressive role towards unions since the mid-1990s.

Pilots and Management - Industrial Relations in the U.K. Airlines (Paperback): A.N.J. Blain Pilots and Management - Industrial Relations in the U.K. Airlines (Paperback)
A.N.J. Blain
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Airline pilots in various countries around the world have made determined use of industrial action. The use of strike action by the pilots challenges the view that militant trade unionism is confined to lower-paid workers and is associated with a left-wing political orientation. This phenomenon provides the author with an opportunity for singling out the basic factors underlying attitudes and behaviour in industrial relations. His starting point is a 'systems model' of industrial relations which is submitted to critical examination and refined, enhancing its usefulness as a research methodology. In particular he stresses the importance of personality elements in the parties to the disputes. The book, first published in 1972, also provides an analysis of the development of the airlines and their institutions.

Revival: Trade Unionism (1900) - New and Old (Hardcover): George Howell Revival: Trade Unionism (1900) - New and Old (Hardcover)
George Howell
R5,247 Discovery Miles 52 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Public approval of a book is indicated by its sale. A second edition of this having been exhausted, my publishers deem it advisable to issue a third edition revised to date. In assenting, I have had to examine it thoroughly in order to see whether the work required correction, and, if so, to what extent. After careful perusal I find no reason to modify any sentence, withdraw any expression, or correct any statement of fact in its pages. Much has happened since it was written in 1890, the proofs finally revised in January 1891, but in all respects my views are unchanged 3 nor have the last ten years Shown cause for any abandon ment of the opinions then held. My conclusions have proved sound in all instances, even where I ventured to predict. I have therefore left the text untouched except for a few verbal emendations, and the restoration of two pages (soa and 595) which were unaccountably dropped out in going through the press. All that I desire to add has been compressed into a Supplementary Chapter, in which the several controversial points are dealt with, and statistics are brought up to date. The book was written in the heat of controversies to which illusion is made, the somewhat severe criticisms being justified by the then facts and circumstances. If they now appear to be harsh, it is because the policy then denounced has been abandoned, or so modified as to be no longer open to the condemnation then pronounced.

Cultural Diversity in Trade Unions - A Challenge to Class Identity? (Paperback): Johan Wets Cultural Diversity in Trade Unions - A Challenge to Class Identity? (Paperback)
Johan Wets
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000: Addresses the question of how encompassing unions deal with regional differences and competing cultural identities - in particular those of migrant workers as a specific social and cultural category. Are regional and cultural differences jeopardizing the working-class solidarity?

The Making of Women Trade Unionists (Hardcover, New Ed): Gill Kirton The Making of Women Trade Unionists (Hardcover, New Ed)
Gill Kirton
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In what will be essential reading for all industrial relations scholars, Gill Kirton considers the social construction of women's trade union participation in the context of male dominated trade unions. Exploring the making and progress of women's trade union careers, this book locates the issues within the context of their experiences of three interlocking social institutions - the union, work and family. The book examines how and why women embark on trade union careers, the social processes which shape women's gender and union identities and the combined influences of union/work/family contexts on the trajectory of women's union careers. Additionally, the book offers a historical overview of the development of women's trade union education and separate organizing, with original analysis and historical data.

Global Industrial Relations (Hardcover): Michael J. Morley, Patrick Gunnigle, David Collings Global Industrial Relations (Hardcover)
Michael J. Morley, Patrick Gunnigle, David Collings
R5,258 Discovery Miles 52 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Breaking new ground and drawing on contributions from the leading academics in the field, this volume in the Global HRM Series specifically focuses on industrial relations. The text is divided into two distinct, but overlapping sections, namely regional variations in global industrial relations systems and contemporary themes in global industrial relations. Specifically, the text is intended to provide an overview of the industrial relations systems of nine regions (North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, and India). Having examined the industrial relations systems of these regions the second section of the book examines some overarching themes in global industrial relations. Combining both systems and thematic issues, this important new text will be invaluable reading for anyone studying or interested in global industrial relations.

Industrial Relations in China (Hardcover): Bill Taylor, Kai Chang, Qi Li Industrial Relations in China (Hardcover)
Bill Taylor, Kai Chang, Qi Li
R3,212 Discovery Miles 32 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This enlightening book provides the first systematic introduction to, and exploration of, the emerging system of industrial relations in China, and draws on the authors' extensive research and direct involvement in the developments taking place. The authors argue that there are both unifying and fragmenting elements to the ongoing development of industrial relations, but overall it is one in which the state continues to maintain a major, and direct, influence. Divisions between workers and managers may be escalating with increased open conflicts, but this book reveals that the picture is far more complex and contradictory than to assume that the solution is convergence with western style industrial relations systems. They conclude that industrial relations institutions and processes still act within a political context and with the guiding hand of the Chinese Communist party. Industrial Relations in China draws on up-to-date material and will ensure the book's appeal to industrial relations and Chinese scholars. It will also appeal to a wider audience of Asian labour and development studies scholars.

American Labor and American Democracy - William English Walling (Paperback, New edition): William Walling American Labor and American Democracy - William English Walling (Paperback, New edition)
William Walling
R1,355 Discovery Miles 13 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In "American Labor and American Democracy," William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the authoritative history of the labor movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Walling's position was that twentieth-century American democracy was not stagnant. It was a living, developing trend in society, with the AFL as its most progressive force. There could be no passive acceptance of American institutions as they stood: government in the twentieth century would need to develop into a medium for attaining social ideals and needs beyond individual realization. The aim of American labor was a pluralistic economic democracy in which government and industry would be guided by economic organizations representing not only labor, but every essential social group. Richard Schneirov, in his introduction to this new edition of a classic book, paints a rich and detailed picture of Walling's political and intellectual journey, and of his many contributions to the synthesis of democratic and socialist principles. "American Labor and American Democracy" is an important work that will help reevaluate our understanding of labor and working-class history, establish a new perspective on today's labor movement, and shed light on the relationship of labor to socialism, capitalism, democracy, and social movements; the nature of the large business corporation; and the relationship of special interest groups to democracy. William English Walling (1877-1936) was a social reform activist who helped found the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903 and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. He authored several influential works, including "Socialism as it Is: A Survey of the World-Wide Revolutionary Movement," "The Larger Aspects of Socialism," "Progessivism and After," and "The Socialists and the War." Richard Schneirov is professor of history at Indiana State University, and has also taught at The Ohio State University and the Institut f3r England und Amerikastudien at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of "Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97," which was awarded the Urban History Association's prize for best urban history in North America for 1998 and co-edited "The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s."

Globalisation, State and Labour (Hardcover): Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie Globalisation, State and Labour (Hardcover)
Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world is undergoing enormous change involving politics, the economy and society, however the position and place of the state and the significance of state policy in this process is heavily contested. "Globalisation, State and Labour "presents a timely opportunity to review and re-assess the modern state in regard to labor.
Using major studies from four countries (UK, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand) the contributors to this volume challenge many preconceptions regarding globalization and labor organization including the notions that the state is being marginalized by the processes of globalization and trade unions are becoming irrelevant. The essays, written by leading researchers in the area, develop a new theoretical framework which puts work, workers and their organizations at the heart of analyzing state restructuring.
This book is an important corrective to much recent work on work, employment and restructuring and the role of organized labor. Combining a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis this book will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with globalization debate, the future of the state and organized labor.

Trade Unions - Resurgence or Demise? (Hardcover): Sue Fernie, David Metcalf Trade Unions - Resurgence or Demise? (Hardcover)
Sue Fernie, David Metcalf
R4,366 Discovery Miles 43 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Can private sector unions survive in Great Britain?
How can unions respond to the challenges posted by performace-related pay, public-private partnerships and the internet?
What lessons can be learned from trade unions' experience in Germany and the US?
"Trade Unions: Resurgence or Decline?" is the third book in the innovative "Trade Unions in Britain" series. Featuring substantial and original research, this book takes a hard disciplinary approach--economics, organizational theory, history and social psychology--to offer readers a comprehensive analysis of unions' prospects in the new millenium. Case studies deal with such topical issues such as unions and the gender pay gap, the private finance initiative, performance-related pay and the unions' use of the internet.
Written by many of the leading scholars on British unions, this book highlights union prospects--survival or resurgence?--and has important policy implications for all parties to industrial relations: unions, employers and government.

French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy (Hardcover): Nick Parsons French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy (Hardcover)
Nick Parsons
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining the traditionally predominant role of the state in shaping employment patterns and social policy in France, French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy analyzes the impact of globalization on French industrial relations.

Looking at the changing economic context of industrial relations, this important text places particular emphasis on the notion of a shift from a national, Fordist form of employment regulation, to an international, post-Fordist form - examining in detail the impact of this shift on the role of the French state and on the balance of power between employer and trade union organizations.

Including chapters on employer organizations, collective bargaining, the role of the state, and workplace representation, French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy explores this fascinating topic in detail and provides a detailed resource for postgraduates studying trade unions, industrial and employee relations, and industrial studies in general.

Class Acts - An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union (Paperback): E. Paul Durrenberger, Suzan Erem Class Acts - An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union (Paperback)
E. Paul Durrenberger, Suzan Erem
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

U.S. labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in the trenches of a national effort to bring back the U.S. labor movement.Brutally honest, funny, and never dull, this anthropological ethnography shows the daily struggles of union members today to bring about positive change and hold together their urban labor union in an era of globalization, outsourcing, and deindustrialization.The authors, a union activist and an anthropologist respectively, pair up to offer insider views of labor unions "and" of how anthropological fieldwork is done. Explaining, coaching, and warning Paul of hazards, Suzan, the communications director for the local union, provides inside views and details of day-to-day interactions. Paul, the anthropologist, provides outside analytical views that relate Suzan's experiences and his own observations to the wider view anthropology offers through the lenses of ethnography, holism, and comparativism. The result is a story of one dynamic union local, one anthropological study, and the lit fuse that connects them until the end.

Class Acts - An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union (Hardcover, New): E. Paul Durrenberger, Suzan Erem Class Acts - An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union (Hardcover, New)
E. Paul Durrenberger, Suzan Erem
R2,508 Discovery Miles 25 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

U.S. labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in the trenches of a national effort to bring back the U.S. labor movement.Brutally honest, funny, and never dull, this anthropological ethnography shows the daily struggles of union members today to bring about positive change and hold together their urban labor union in an era of globalization, outsourcing, and deindustrialization.The authors, a union activist and an anthropologist respectively, pair up to offer insider views of labor unions "and" of how anthropological fieldwork is done. Explaining, coaching, and warning Paul of hazards, Suzan, the communications director for the local union, provides inside views and details of day-to-day interactions. Paul, the anthropologist, provides outside analytical views that relate Suzan's experiences and his own observations to the wider view anthropology offers through the lenses of ethnography, holism, and comparativism. The result is a story of one dynamic union local, one anthropological study, and the lit fuse that connects them until the end.

Routledge Revivals: The Enemy Within (1986) - Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5 (Paperback): Raphael Samuel,... Routledge Revivals: The Enemy Within (1986) - Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5 (Paperback)
Raphael Samuel, Barbara Bloomfield, Guy Boanas
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners' strike of 1984-5 was 'Scargill's Strike'. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures - the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, kin networks and intergenerational solidarity. At the same time it is concerned with the mentality of the strike - its ruling fears and passions. The first-hand testimonies that comprise the book attest to the attachment to 'traditional ways' as well as the potency of the influences corroding them.

Social Movements and Organized Labour - Passions and Interests (Hardcover): Jurgen Grote, Claudius Wagemann Social Movements and Organized Labour - Passions and Interests (Hardcover)
Jurgen Grote, Claudius Wagemann
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts on the political, social and economic catalysts behind the changing motives finding expression in a multitude of novel types of joint collective action and inter-organizational alliances. The contributors to this volume go beyond attempting to place unions, movements, crises, precariousness, protests and coalitions at the centre of the research. Instead, they focus on actors who themselves transcend clear-cut social camps. They look at the values and motives underlying collective action by both types of actors as much as at their structural and strategic properties, and inter-organizational relations and networks. This creates a fresh, genuine and historically valid account of the incompatibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for inter-organizational learning.

Contested Sites - Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New edition): Paul A.... Contested Sites - Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New edition)
Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, political monuments have received little attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition.

Union Organization and Activity (Paperback): John Kelly, Paul Willman Union Organization and Activity (Paperback)
John Kelly, Paul Willman
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The second in The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, this book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalize themselves. There is a strong emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence. The impact of partnerships with employers, both in private and public sectors, is explored and so too are union innovations in structure, including use of the internet. An exciting new contribution.

The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation - New Forms of Representation (Hardcover, New): Phanindra V. Wunnava The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation - New Forms of Representation (Hardcover, New)
Phanindra V. Wunnava
R3,945 Discovery Miles 39 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the trend toward multinational corporations, free trade pacts and dismantling import barriers, organized labour has been steadily losing ground in the United States. To reverse this trend, this book argues that US unions must create ties with unions in other countries.

Union Organization and Activity (Hardcover): John Kelly, Paul Willman Union Organization and Activity (Hardcover)
John Kelly, Paul Willman
R5,233 Discovery Miles 52 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The second in The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, this book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalize themselves. There is a strong emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence. The impact of partnerships with employers, both in private and public sectors, is explored and so too are union innovations in structure, including use of the internet. An exciting new contribution.

Employment Relations in Non-Union Firms (Hardcover, New edition): Tony Dundon, Derek Rollinson Employment Relations in Non-Union Firms (Hardcover, New edition)
Tony Dundon, Derek Rollinson
R3,767 Discovery Miles 37 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The precise relationship between an employee and employer is often ambiguous within complex organizational boundaries. This book re-evaluates the way employment relations are conceptualized and examines employment conditions in non-union organizations.

The authors present a detailed analysis of the conditions and patterns of employment relations in both small and large non-union firms. They assess the impact of regulation, managerial ideology and market influences on employer strategies to avoid unionization. Using social and psychological exchange, the book concludes with an assessment of the capacity of workers to act as an agent of change in these non-union relationships. The implications for worker mobilization, trade union expansion and employer strategies are also considered in the light of detailed case study analysis.

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