Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy

Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships between employers and workers. It is becoming crucial to consider today’s work and employment issues alongside the dynamics between global financial and product markets, global production chains, national and international employment actors and institutions, and the ways in which these relationships play out in different national contexts. Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy addresses this need by presenting a cross-section of country studies –including the UK, Germany, USA, Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa – alongside integrative thematic chapters covering essential topics such as theoretical approaches, collective representation and employment regulation. This second edition benefits from: Careful updates to theory and real-life developments Fuller treatment of topics such as labour migration, gender and discrimination, global value chains and corporate governance A more logical ordering of chapters, with globalization issues appearing earlier This textbook is the perfect resource for students on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate comparative and international programmes across areas such as employment relations, industrial relations, human resource management, political economy, labour politics, industrial and economic sociology, regulation and social policy.

Part 1 Comparative employment relations 1. Introduction: global challenges at work - John Kelly and Carola Frege 2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations - Carola Frege and John Kelly Part 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective 3 Globalization and employment relations – Sarosh Kuruvilla 4 Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work - Patrick McGovern 5 Inequalities and employment relations - Jenny Rodriguez and Jill Rubery 6 Labour migration - Carola Frege 7 Work and employment practices in comparative perspective - John Godard 8 Employment relations and economic performance - Damian Grimshaw and Susan Hayter 9 Employment relations, welfare and politics - Anke Hassel Part 3 Regulating the employment relationship 10 Individual employee rights at work - Cynthia Estlund 11 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics - Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick 12 Regional regulation: the EU - Paul Marginson 13 International regulation: standards and voluntary practices - Michael Fichter Part 4 Employment regulation in national contexts 14 The United States - Gerald Friedman and John Godard 15 The United Kingdom - John Kelly 16 France - Nick Parsons 17 Germany - Martin Behrens 18 Sweden - Torsten Svensson 19 Japan - D. Hugh Whittaker 20 Brazil - Mark S. Anner and João Paulo Cândia Veiga 21 Russia - Sarah Ashwin and Irina Kozina 22 India - Vidu Badigannavar and Dona Ghosh 23 China - Mingwei Liu 24 South Africa - Roger Southall

Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.