Employer Strategy and the Labour Market

Zusatztext This is a fascinating and most useful book ... One thing that makes this book especially significant is the use of extensive survey material of UK firms ... the volume should become a prominent landmark in the wide literature on these topics. The book clearly demonstrates that in some key respects our thinking has to change, especially concerning fundamental theoretical assumptions ... The volume under review can be regarded as an important contribution to this tradition. It is strongly recommended. Klappentext This book draws on important new data from the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Intitiative to test! modify! and challenge much of the current academic literature on the determinants of employer policy and how these influence employment structures and the employment opportunities of individuals. Zusammenfassung This book draws on important new data from the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Intitiative to test, modify, and challenge much of the current academic literature on the determinants of employer policy and how these influence employment structures and the employment opportunities of individuals.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Wilkinson Rubery, RUBERY JILL WILKINSON FRANK
• Assisted by: Jill Rubery (Editor), Jill Etc Rubery (Editor), Rubery Jill (Editor), Frank Wilkinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.1994
• EAN: 9780198279273
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827927-3
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Social Change and Economic Life Initiative; Social Change and Economic Lif; Social Change and Economic Life Initiative
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Social discrimination and social justice