Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
by Ingrid Artus, Judith Holland, Uwe Blien
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The society and economy of Vietnam is still characterised by a rapid transformation process. There is high economic and political pressure. coming not only from internal developments but also from foreign countries.
This groundbreaking book takes stock of the rapid processes of change in the...
'An Impartial Umpire'
Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic...
Industrial Relations
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented...
Redefined Labour Spaces
Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors, and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing together studies of resistance, struggles and new...
Criminal Capital
Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a...
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls
A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls: A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
"The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this is a plain violation of this most sacred property.” (Adam...
Trade Unions in China
The Challenge of Labour Unrest
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that labour...
Holding the Shop Together
German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Since the onset of the Great Recession, Germany’s economy has been praised for its superior performance, which has been reminiscent of the "economic miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s. Such acclaim is surprising because Germany’s economic institutions were widely dismissed as faulty just a decade...
The Challenge of Labour in China
Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, by...
by Nick Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
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...
Women Challenging Unions
Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision...
Governing International Labour Migration
Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.
It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political...
The Labour Party and Foreign Policy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage.
The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party,...
Trade Unions and the State
The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?
In analyzing how an entirely new...