Handbook of the politics of labour, work and employment
"Providing a thorough overview of the political nature of, and dynamics between, the worlds of work, labour and employment, this timely Handbook draws together an interdisciplinary range of top contributors to explore the interdependent relationship between politics and labour, work and employm...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 20. Labour market, work and employment segregation by race / Steve Jefferys
- 21. Training and development - whose interests are being served? / Mark Stuart
- 22. Kinship and community networks / Robert MacKenzie, Zyama Ciupijus and Chris Forde
- Index
- flexible employment and layers of disconnection / Sharon C. Bolton and Knut Laaser
- Part II: Aspects of the politics of labour, work and employment
- 11. Managing labour and the labour process / Bill Harley
- 12. Who manages the managers? / Graham Sewell
- 13. Beyond the workplace: how civil society organisations attempt to exercise regulatory influence over work and employment / Steve Williams and Brian Abbott
- 14. Types of work and labour / Rachel Lara Cohen
- 15. Non-standard work and non-standard workers / Vicki Smith and Brian Halpin
- 16. Non-remunerated work / Colin C Williams
- 17. Skills and the social value of work / Patricia Findlay
- 18. The expansion of the labour market and the politics of migration / Gabriella Alberti
- 19. Gender segregation and labour market institutions / Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Linley Lord
- 1. The politics of labour, work and employment / Gregor Gall
- Part I: Foundations for understanding the politics of labour, work and employment
- 2. A theoretical framework for labour, work, and employment research / Bruce E. Kaufman
- 3. Pre- and post-capitalist labour, work and employment / Neil Davidson
- 4. Labour, work and employment in the age of globalised neo-liberalism / Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings
- 5. The neo-liberal state and the regulation of class relations / Chris Howell
- 6. Different types of societal regulation - coordinated market economy, social democracy, aspiration of worker control / Greg Patmore
- 7. The politics and diversity of worker representation: the increasing fluidity and challenge of representation / Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen Mustchin
- 8. Employers and their representatives: discretion, power, markets, and managers in the transformation of twenty first century work / Gerald Friedman