"Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships between employers and workers. It is becoming crucial to consider today's work and employment issues...

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...

Post-independence labour relations in Africa -- The development of workplace democracy -- A theory of the dynamics of workplace democracy -- Studying democratic participation in Africa -- Conditions of work and employment -- The trade union condition -- The struggle for workplace democracy in...