PAUL BLYTON is Professor of Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology at the University of Cardiff, UK. EDMUND HEERY is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK. PETER TURNBULL is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at the University of Cardiff, UK.

• Introduction The Critical Future of HRM ResearchPersonnel Economics and the Employment RelationshipNew Forms of Control in Contemporary Work OrganizationsReassessing Identities in and of OrganizationsReassessing Markets and the Employment Relationship Reassessing Governance and the Employment Relationship Reassessing Employment LawBringing Employment Cack In: a Critique of Current Theorising of Inter-organizational RelationsCustomer Service and Customer Service Work; E.Ogbonna Work and Non-Work Life: an AssessmentAssessing VoiceManaging Knowledge Work: Towards a Critical UnderstandingThe Future of Equality Agendas: the Problems of Intersectionality in Theory and PracticeThe Employment Relationship in the Public Sector: Does it Retain its Distinctiveness? Ask Not What HRM Can Do for Performance but What HRM Did to PerformanceWages and the Employment Relationship – Low Pay, High Pay and Occupational PayReassessing Varieties of Capitalism: the Changing Employment Relationship in Germany and JapanGlobalization and Employment RelationsEthics, Employment and Poverty in the Global Market Place

'Reassessing the Employment Relationship is a first-rate collection of critical, lucid and thought-provoking essays on a wide range of employment-related topics. Teachers of advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses will find plenty of material for reading lists and researchers will find an abundance of well-referenced insights and arguments in this scholarly work.' - John Kelly, Professor of Industrial Relations, Birkbeck University 'Essential reading for students seeking to understanding contemporary employment relations.' - Nicholas Bacon, Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Nottingham 'Reassessing the Employment Relations provides a timely and wide-ranging assessment of the changing nature, conditions and regulation of work in an increasingly global context. The book charts the continuities and changes that increasingly shape the employment relationship and identifies searching and challenging questions for our understanding of the future of work and employment. Destined to be a classic text, it is a must read for all scholars, students and practitioners of employment relations.' - Mark Stuart, Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, University of Leeds