Managing attachment: developing a unified framework for attachment in the workplace -- Origins of human attachment -- Neuroscience: the relationships between primary emotions and attachments -- The workplace: understanding attachment and attachment styles -- An emerging sense of place attachment...

Trade union strategy, influence and power in contemporary Britain : an introduction -- The social contract (1974-79) -- Employment relations reform under new labour: context, continuity and change -- The national minimum wage -- The employment relations act -- The Warwick agreement -- Strategy,...

The growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has led to renewed attention to the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such as NGOs or local communities. Curiously, however, one societal actor - trade unions - is largely missing from such discussions, while the...

Preface -- Can industrial relations save the world? -- Industrial relations policy : conflict & cooperation in the governance of work -- Industrial relations theory : from industrial democracy to the web of rules and back again -- System, lifeworld and points in between -- Frames of reference --...

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...

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have...