Since the 1970s, the spread of neo-liberalism across the world has radically reconfigured the relationship between unions, employers and the state. The contributors highlight that this is the major cause and effect of union decline and argue that if there is to be any union revitalisation and...

'This Handbook is an important contribution to knowledge about employee voice which combines a variety of approaches to the subject by drawing on different disciplines, forms and philosophies. It provides new research from a wide range of national and international experience and covers both...

Contents: Part I. Perspectives and theories of voice -- 1. Employee voice: Bridging new terrains and disciplinary boundaries / Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey and Richard Freeman -- 2. Employee voice before Hirschman: Its early history, conceptualization, and practice / Bruce E....

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...

'This Handbook is an important contribution to knowledge about employee voice which combines a variety of approaches to the subject by drawing on different disciplines, forms and philosophies. It provides new research from a wide range of national and international experience and covers both...

Employment relations : older reflections and new horizons / Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey and Alex Colvin -- Perspectives on employment relations -- The field of employment relations : a review / Niall Cullinane -- Economics and employment relations / Paul Willman -- Employment...

The Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations is an essential resource for those seeking to understand contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the world. -- Special consideration is given to the impact of...

"Discussing some fundamental theories and approaches to work and employment relations, and their connection to broader political and societal changes occurring throughout the world, this book contains a series of informed contributions written by prominent leading scholars from across the globe...

Contents: Part I: The changing context -- 1. Understanding the future of work / Adrian Wilkinson and Michael Barry -- Part II: Changing practices -- 2. Work 'or' employment in the 21st century: its impact on the employment relationship / Chris Brewster and Peter Holland -- 3. Unpaid work...