Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations

Edited by Keith Townsend, Professor of Human Resources and Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University and Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia

• Contents:1. The Changing Face of Work and Employment RelationsAdrian Wilkinson and Keith TownsendPART I: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS THEORY2. The Future of Employment Relations: Insights from TheoryBruce E. Kaufman3. Finding the Future in the Past? The Social Philosophy of Oxford Industrial Relations PluralismPeter AckersPART II: ACTORS4. The State and Employment RelationsJason Heyes and Ian Clark5. Union Strategy and Circumstance: Bank to the Future and Forward to the Past?Gregor Gall6. Concerted Capital: Understanding Employer Interests and the Role of Employer Coordination in Contemporary Employment RelationsMichael Barry7. New and Emerging Actors in Work and Employment Relations: The Case of Civil Society OrganizationsSteve Williams, Brian Abbott and Edmund Heery8. Employment Relations and Managerial Work: An International PerspectiveJohn Hassard, Leo McCann and Jonathan MorrisPART III: RETHINKING LABOUR9. Skills in the Twenty-first Century Organization: The Career of a NotionAnne Fearfull and Martin Dowling10. Working Time in the Employment Relationship: Working Time, Perceived Control and Work–life BalanceLonnie Golden, Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Susan J. Lambert and Julia R. Henly11. Migration and Labour Markets: An Interpretation of the LiteratureTom Lusis and Harald Bauder12. Child LaborScott Lyon and Furio RosatiPART IV: CHANGING CONTEXTS13. Flexicurity: Still Going Strong or a Victim of the Crisis?Peter Auer and Kazutoshi Chatani14. Governance, Finance and Employment RelationsGeoffrey Wood15. Employment Relations and Corporate Social ResponsibilitySteve Brammer16. Industrial Relations in China: Ball of Confusion?E. Patrick McDermottPART V: TOWARDS A FAIRER WORKPLACE?17. Equity in the Twenty-first Century WorkplaceGlenda Strachan, John Burgess and Erica French18. Dimensions of Dignity: Defining the Future of WorkSharon Bolton19. Justice in the Twenty-first Century OrganizationJacqueline Coyle-Shapiro and Rashpal K. DhensaIndex

‘This is an enlightening text on the subject of employment and work relations that will be useful for students in economics, specifically those studying labor relations.’