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This is an annual research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well-being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. The intent is to pull together the various streams of…

In this provocative new book, Paul Mooney argues that the union-free organization is fast becoming the preferred model for employee relations in Ireland.

He shows why this is happening against a backdrop of profound changes in workplace…

This edited collection of essays on the ‘new workplace’ reflects the major changes which have affected the position of British trade unions over the past decade. It brings together two important themes – new management practices and trade…

Recent years have seen the emergence of what is variously referred to as ‘the new working class’ or even ‘the new middle class’. This new class is largely centered on the ever-increasing number of technical, supervisory and lower managerial…

Trade Unions in Renewal brings together a series of studies of union renewal from five different countries - the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. Although unions in the five countries have all been influenced by…

This book covers the principles of Labour law and industrial relations in Italy in a broad sense. After a general introduction covering general features, historical background and definitions, the book goes on to discuss the sources of labour law and…

In ‘Recasting Worker Involvement’ a group of authors especially Germany (Oldenburg) and Netherlands (Groningen) analyses recent trends in worker involvement and the actual condition of Rhinelander capitalism. In times of economic and financial…

More than a Century before the welfare state and comprehensive social services took shape, the early trade societies and unions had worked out an elaborate method of coping with unemployment that the industrial revolution made a constant feature of…

This volume is about deviance in the workplace. It defines deviance as departures from laws or organizational rules by workers, managers, or an organization as an entity. It brings together contributions by scholars in the sociology of work and of…

In recent decades there has been a considerable relative decline in the numbers of manual workers in production industries who have in the past formed the backbone of trade union organisation. In most western countries, ‘white-collar’ employees…

This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

What are trade unions for? Why do trade unions movements vary so? Trade unionism in its various national forms has been the subject of increasing scrutiny during the second half of the twentieth century. Ross Martin’s book is concerned with two…

Working for justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive ‘L.A. Model’ of union and worker centre organising. The organised labour movement in Los…

A comparative study of how the current industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since the 1980s. After an introduction, six essays look at the defusion of the Molotov cocktail in South…

The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose…