This study investigates the consequences of the growth in mergers amongst trade unions. It is conventional wisdom that unions which engage in mergers, pooling their resources and releasing economies of scale, become more powerful and serve their members' more efficiently. The no…
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Set against a background of technological change, national bargaining and union merger, this thesis considers the impact of a changing structural, economic and political climate on the resilience of national pay bargaining within general print, a little documented but important …
China’s achievement of developing a vigorous market economy is based on Chinese communist party (CCP)’s top-down reform and opening-up policies since 1978. Meanwhile, political reform of the second largest economy in today’s world is continuously delayed. Without an agenda of br…
This research project seeks explanations for an inconsistency between onerously-regulated, stable labour market institutions (LMIs) and everyday employment in the Brazilian variety of capitalism. The study adopts a new institutionalist approach and findings are based upon qualit…
Most of the contemporary literature on Turkey’s industrial relations emphasises the impact of globalisation in bringing about fundamental institutional changes in the domain of industrial relations that have resulted in diminished capability of organised labour to act as an inde…
Although research has been done on the quality of university education in Nigeria, little is known about the effects of the last 2 decades of serial labor strikes in the universities. The purpose of this study was to bridge this gap by examining the perceptions of university adm…