This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital...

Contributing to recent debate on the emergence of digital and agile work, this book explores the implications for labour and employment relations within and beyond organizational boundaries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the key issues and challenges of digitalization, this collection...

Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the search for positive employment relations in five countries. The provision of collective employee representation, normally through trade...

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North...

Although many industrialized countries have had to face the same political and economic pressures in reforming their public sectors there have been different reactions and a diversity of solutions to the emerging problems. This book examines the most significant initiatives targeted towards the...

Investigating the issue of employee representation in multinational companies (MNCs), this book sets out to systematically conceptualise the modes of articulation between different action fields. While previous studies have focused on forms of employee representation that have emerged throughout...

Lean Production als Weltstandard für Serienfertigung -- Lean Warehouse -- Integrierte Bewertung variantenreicher Einzel- und Kleinserienfertigung in den Bereichen Lean Management und Industrie 4.0 -- Konsequenzen von Industrie 4.0 für das Produktionsmanagement -- Quick Response Manufacturing...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship; P. Matthijs Bal, Dorien T.A.M. Kooij and Denise M. Rousseau -- PART I: THE ROLE OF CONTEXT AND THE ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 2: Older Workers, Stereotypes, and Discrimination in the Context of the Employment...

In Deutschland verfügen etwa 10 % der betriebsratsfähigen Betriebe über einen Betriebsrat. Eine detaillierte Analyse des Verbreitungsgrades zeigt, dass Betriebsräte hauptsächlich in managementgeführten Betrieben existieren, während sie in familiengeführten Betrieben rar sind. Nadine...