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Understanding Work and Employment
. Ed(S): Ackers, Peter; Wilkinson, Adrian
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Paperback. This collection aims to analyse, advertise, and criticize the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It reconsiders the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life. Editor(s): Ackers, Peter; Wilkinson, Adrian. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV2; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
This collection aims to analyse, advertise, and criticize the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together leading scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life, to learn what it can gain from a stronger engagement with these surrounding disciplines and national traditions. The introduction provides a critical, though broadly sympathetic, outline of the development of the mainstream industrial relations tradition. Part One recognizes the interdisciplinary character of industrial relations by concentrating on 'border encounters' with the cognate academic disciplines of ... Read more
This collection aims to analyse, advertise, and criticize the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings together leading scholars to reconsider the theoretical foundations of industrial relations and its potential contribution to the wider understanding of work and economic life, to learn what it can gain from a stronger engagement with these surrounding disciplines and national traditions. The introduction provides a critical, though broadly sympathetic, outline of the development of the mainstream industrial relations tradition. Part One recognizes the interdisciplinary character of industrial relations by concentrating on 'border encounters' with the cognate academic disciplines of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199259038
SKU
V9780199259038
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99-1
About . Ed(S): Ackers, Peter; Wilkinson, Adrian
Peter Ackers is Reader in Employment Relations at Loughborough University Business School. Co-author of New Development in Employee Involvement (Employment Department 1992) and co-editor of The New Workplace and Trade Unionism (Routledge 1996), he has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on industrial relations, the sociology of work, and labour history. Adrian Wilkinson is Professor of Human ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Work and Employment
This is a collection which every labour historian should read. These eighteen essays offer a succinct summary of recent scholarship and challenge us to think deeply about contemporary discussions of work and the labour markets. They also provoke us to consider the utility and value of historical study in such debates ... This important collection identifies a number of points ... Read more