by Marlow, Susan, Patton, Dean, Ram, Monder
fromRoutledge studies in small business
Explores key areas of the employment relationship in small firms.
Examines measures taken at the international level to apply the work-related provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In clear, accessible language, the authors describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy.
by Ewing, K. D., (Keith D.), McColgan, Aileen, Collins, Hugh
Provides an examination of the law relating to employment, industrial relations, and labour market regulation in the law of the United Kingdom, including relevant dimensions of EC law and policy. Comprises selected extracts from cases, statutes, reports, official statistics, and…
This title is organized into four interrelated sections: theorizing industrial relations; the changing institutions that shape employment practice; the processes used by governments, employers and unions; income inquality, employee well-being, business performance and national c…
This volume explores what the Treaty of Lisbon means for social law and social policy at the European level.
Attempts to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Analyses the situation of domestic workers, and contributes to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural ident…
by Moody, Kim
fromHaymarket series
In this study of world labour relations, Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. His assessment takes a look at multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production & compel workers to work for less.
"The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative that encourages businesses to support ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption. It is the world's largest voluntary corporate responsibility in…
What does EU law truly mean for the member states? Do they abide or don't they? This book presents the first encompassing and in-depth empirical study of the effects of 'voluntaristic' and (partly) 'soft' EU policies in all 15 member states.
Focuses on the period from 1980 to 1990.
Examines whether labour law, focusing primarily on employee protection, is under threat of becoming extinct with globalization. Compares labour law and regulation in four European countries, the US, New Zealand and Australia, and concludes that governments seek to strike a balan…
Examines whether labour law, focusing primarily on employee protection, is under threat of becoming extinct with globalization. Compares labour law and regulation in four European countries, the US, New Zealand and Australia, and concludes that governments seek to strike a balan…
There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are …
Contains 14 papers which discuss industrial labour and its management. Examines the influence of caste and social class in recruitment and the position of women industrial workers.
Examines the use of qualitative indicators in measuring compliance with labour standards focusing on comparative methods of construction as well as the appropriateness of particular methods for particular applications.
"Several thousand new trade union recognition agreements have been signed since 1997, representing a major development within industrial relations in Britain. This has resulted from the interaction of union organising efforts and the statutory union recognition provisions of the…
Pressures associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade…
Discusses issues of worker rights and labor standards, considering moral questions and class relations and interests, and examines the practices of the International Labor Organization, the interaction between labor law and U.S. foreign policy, and the activities of labor-based …
