Trade unions

Exploring Employee Relations is a straightforward and accessible text that is aimed at students who are taking the subject for the first time.

Exploring Employee Relations is a straightforward and accessible text that is aimed at students who are taking the subject for the first time.

Banking and finance is one of the most successful and rapidly expanding sectors in the world economy.

Banking and finance is one of the most successful and rapidly expanding sectors in the world economy.

Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development.

Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

This is Volume XII of a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work.

This is Volume XII of a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work.

First Published in 1998.

First Published in 1998.

This is Volume II of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation.

This is Volume II of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation.

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age.

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age.

Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions.

Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions.

Published in the year 1981, Capital & Labour In South Africa is a valuable contrubution to the field of Social Science.

Published in the year 1981, Capital & Labour In South Africa is a valuable contrubution to the field of Social Science.

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace.

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace.

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s.

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s.

Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor.

Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor.

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach.

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach.

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker.

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome.

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome.

In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education.

In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education.

As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda.

As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda.

This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy.

This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy.

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector.

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector.

This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea.

This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea.

Globalization and labour market deregulation have had an impact on employment and workers, and brought pressure to bear on trade unions.

Globalization and labour market deregulation have had an impact on employment and workers, and brought pressure to bear on trade unions.

This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are.

This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are.

Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members.

Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members.

This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream.