Handbook of the politics of labour, work and employment

In: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive

Abstract

Contents: 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 -- 9. Juridification in industrial relations / Alan Bogg -- 10. The moral economy: 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 -- 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.