New Unions, New Workplaces

The authors work in the Employment Studies Research Unit, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England.Andy Danford is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in employment relations and author of Japanese Management Techniques and British Workers. Mike Richardson is researcher and tutor of employee relations and business systems, and also tutor of economic and social history for the Faculty of Humanities, University of the West of England. Martin Upchurch is Senior Lecturer in International Employment Relations.

• 1. Unions Facing up to Crisis2. Union Organising in the New Workplace3. Job Reform and Recollectivisation in the Aerospace Industry4. Manufacturing Change in an Era of Corporate Instability5. The Insurance Industry - Back to Basics?6. The Paradox of Partnership in the Public Sector7. Negotiated Privatisation in Public Utilities8. What Future?

'For scholars of specialist classes in employee relations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels this book provides invaluable research evidence and a corresponding analysis with which to critically evaluate workplace change. I would have no hesitation recommending this book to students, academics and policy-makers alike.'- Kirsty Newsome, Employee Relations