New Theory of Industrial Relations - People, Markets and Organizations After Neoliberalism

List of contents

Chapter One: Can Industrial Relations Save the World?
Chapter Two: Industrial Relations Policy: Conflict & Cooperation in the Governance of Work
Chapter Three: Industrial Relations Theory: From Industrial Democracy to the Web of Rules and Back Again
Chapter Four: System, Lifeworld and Points in Between
Chapter Five: Frames of Reference
Chapter Six: A New Theory of Industrial Relations
Chapter Seven: What Can We Do with NTIR? Implications for Research and Policy

About the author

Conor Cradden is an independent researcher and consultant based in France. He works on industrial relations, the sociology of work and employment and international labour regulation. He is the author of two previous books, Repoliticizing Management: A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy (Ashgate, 2005) and Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK: How the Labour Movement Lost the Argument (Palgrave, 2014).

Summary

A New Theory of Industrial Relations: People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism follows Alan Fox in supposing that our principal task is to understand the conditions under which employees will accept as legitimate – or reject as illegitimate – the ‘structures of the situation’ within which they work.

Product details

• Authors: Conor Cradden, Conor (Department of Sociology At the Uni Cradden, Conor (Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva Cradden, Cradden Conor
• Assisted by: Rick Delbridge (Editor of the series), Edmund Heery (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138124615
• ISBN: 978-1-138-12461-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations; Routledge Research in Employment Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Labour / income economics, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management