Political Science : Labor & Industrial Relations

In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn't working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us. more...

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Uses new research to examine performance implications of different employee relations in German firms in the UK, Are they using the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK to escape the heavily regulated system in Germany? The authors explore best practice approaches common to the best performing subsidiaries. more...

Price: $80.00

This work examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary. more...

Price: $117.65

Establishing a single European market from 1992 onwards involves the creation of a new legal framework for employment rights and practices. This book explains what the EC legislation will mean and outlines the changes and their relevance for employers and employees and trades unions. more...

Price: $270.00

In this book Dundon and Rollinson re-conceptualise the employment relationship by focussing on the organisational dynamics of trust, attitude and identity. more...

Price: $150.00