Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships between employers and workers. It is becoming crucial to consider today's work and employment issues alongside the dynamics between global financial and product markets, global production chains, national and international employment actors and institutions, and the ways in which these relationships play out in different national contexts.

Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy addresses this need by presenting a cross-section of country studies - including the UK, Germany, USA, Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa - alongside integrative thematic chapters covering essential topics such as theoretical approaches, collective representation and employment regulation.

This second edition benefits from:

• Careful updates to theory and real-life developments
• Fuller treatment of topics such as labour migration, gender and discrimination, global value chains and corporate governance
• A more logical ordering of chapters, with globalization issues appearing earlier

This textbook is the perfect resource for students on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate comparative and international programmes across areas such as employment relations, industrial relations, human resource management, political economy, labour politics, industrial and economic sociology, regulation and social policy.

About the Author

Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.

Reviews

"Despite a liberalizing global economy, nations retain distinctive labor-market institutions such as human resource practices, labor unions, and regulatory regimes. This volume contains the very best comparative research on these national systems. It is incisive, timely, and well organized. It can serve as a research handbook for scholars as well as a text for students in the professional and social sciences. It is outstanding."

Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Professor of Management and Public Affairs UCLA, USA

"Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy is a superb collection that is truly global in scope, giving due regard to employment relations in emerging economies alongside those of the Global North. It provides the best available treatment of comparative employment relations and is an essential text for anyone teaching or studying in this area."

Edmund Heery, Professor of Employment Relations, Cardiff Business School, UK

"This book provides a new and refreshing approach to the study of comparative employment relations -- one that locates developments in both advanced and transitional countries within the broader political economy of global capitalism, but without losing sight of the continuing importance of national level differences and the institutional traditions that underpin them."

Professor John Godard, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada

Book Information
ISBN 9781138683020
Author Carola Frege
Format Paperback
Page Count 536
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1000g