1. Setting the scene -- 2. The situation de jure : the regulation of board-level employee representation -- 3. The morphology of board-level employee representation -- 4. The board agenda and processes -- 5. The exercise of power at the board -- 6. The articulation of board-level employee...

"The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership debate....

National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: comparing oranges with apples? / Hazel Conley, Alberto Mattei, Urszula Torbus, Joanna Nowakowska-Malusecka -- Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the Italian context: case studies / Donata Favaro, Nicoletta Masiero,...

1. Introduction : themes and issues -- 2. Multiple methods, one sector, four cases and one union -- 3. Structural origins -- 4. Management and workplace union motives -- 5. Form -- 6. Employer outcomes -- 7. Union and worker outcomes -- 8. Conclusion : the dynamics of partnership.

The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same legal principles on pay equality. Part of the variation can be explained by different patterns of social partnership. With current policy pressure to de-centralise...