The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems (Oxford Handbooks)

This Handbook is a comparative treatment of employment relations, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in different parts of the world. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations Copyright The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative employment systems Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables About the Contributors Chapter 1 Comparative Employment Systems Part I Defining the Field Chapter 2 Institutions and Employment Relations Chapter 3 Convergence and Divergence in Employment Relations Part II Institutions and Employment Relations—Alternative Accounts, New Insights Chapter 4 Getting Down to Business Chapter 5 Business Systems Theory and Employment Relations Chapter 6 Developments and Extensions of ‘Régulation Theory’ and Employment Relations Chapter 7 Capitalist Diversity, Work and Employment Relations Chapter 8 Ownership Rights and Employment Relations Chapter 9 Varieties of Institutional Theory in Comparative Employment Relations Chapter 10 Institutions and the Industrial Relations Tradition Chapter 11 Conflict, Order, and Change Part III Comparative Evidence Chapter 12 Employment Relations in Liberal Market Economies Chapter 13 Social Democratic Capitalism Chapter 14 Employment Regimes, Wage Setting, and Monetary Union in Continental Europe Chapter 15 Continuity and Change in Asian Employment Systems Chapter 16 Economies Undergoing Long Transition Chapter 17 Employment Relations in ANGLOPHONE SUB-SAHARAN Africa Chapter 18 The Left Turn in Latin America Chapter 19 Developing Societies—Asia Chapter 20 Employment Relations in the BRICS Countries Part IV Substantive Themes Chapter 21 Globalization and Labour Market Governance Chapter 22 Work, Bodies, Care Chapter 23 Where are the Voices? New Directions in Voice and Engagement across the Globe Chapter 24 Insecure Employment Chapter 25 The Migration–Development Nexus, Women Workers, and Transnational Employment Relations Chapter 26 The Neo-Liberal Turn and the Implications for Labour Part V Reflections Chapter 27 The State and Employment Relations Chapter 28 Unions Chapter 29 Institutions, Management Strategies, and HRM Chapter 30 New Actors in Employment Relations Chapter 31 The Future of Employment Relations in Advanced Capitalism Name Index Subject Index "There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional "silos", such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relationship between institutions and employment relations have tended to be of the broad-brushstroke nature, often founded on macro-data, and with only limited attention being accorded to internal diversity and details of actual practice. The Handbook aims to fill this gap by bringing together an assembly of comprehensive and high quality chapters to enable understanding of changes in employment relations since the early 1970s. Theoretically-based chapters attempt to link varieties of capitalism, business systems, and different modes of regulation to the specific practice of employment relations, and offer a truly comparative treatment of the subject, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in employment relations in different parts of the world. Most notably, the Handbook seeks to incorporate at a theoretical level regulationist accounts and recent work that link bounded internal systemic diversity with change, and, at an applied level, a greater emphasis on recent applied evidence, specifically dealing with the employment contract, its implementation, and related questions of work organization. It will be useful to academics and students of industrial relations, political economy, and management."--Publisher's website