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Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has to date remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This pioneering volume helps close the theory gap by presenting contributions from fifteen leading scholars that develop and extend theoretical perspectives on work and the employment relationship. Subject areas covered include theories of employment relations systems, varieties of capitalism, the labor process, new institutional economics, individual work motivation, strategic human resource management, a theory of transaction costs and employment contracts, efficiency versus equity, and comparative industrial relations.
Contributors
Greg Bamber, Griffith University
Julian Barling, Queen’s University
John Budd, University of Minnesota
Daniel Gallagher, James Madison University
John Godard, University of Manitoba
Rafael Gomez, London School of Economics and University of Toronto
Richard Hyman, London School of Economics
Bruce E. Kaufman, Georgia State University
Kevin Kelloway, St. Mary’s University
David Marsden, London School of Economics
Roderick Martin, University of Southampton
Noah M. Meltz, University of Toronto
Walther Müller-Jentsch, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Kirsty Newsome, Strathclyde University
Paul Thompson, Strathclyde University
Michael Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Reviews
"The book's eleven chapters fully live up to the title's promise of 'perspectives': the authors are from Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, with academic backgrounds that include management departments, business schools, industrial relations departments, economics departments, and law schools. Ranging from the micro or individual level to the macro or national level, the chapter topics draw on fields such as organizational behaviour, human resource management, economics, sociology, comparative politics, and history. . . . Readers with a research interest in industrial relations are unlikely to be disappointed by this book—especially if their interest extends to the micro-level workings that underpin collective employment relationships. But the book is also strongly recommended for readers from other disciplines and policy-research backgrounds: it is a truly outstanding investigation of the (changing) nature of work and employment."—Mark Lansky, International Labour Review
About the Author
Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Senior Associate of the W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University. He is the author of The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States, editor of Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship, and coeditor of Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions (all from Cornell).
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