Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Locke, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262620987 ISBN 13: 9780262620987

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Synopsis

By collaborating, the contributors seek to clarify the dynamics of employment relations across the world today, and to set the terms of reference for a new generation of international-comparative employment research.To address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy looks at the critical role employment relations play in firm performance and industry competitiveness worldwide. The essays employ a common framework to examine changes in the employment practices of eleven OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Austria, and Japan. They constitute the first phase in a large ongoing project at the Center for Industrial Performance at MIT to update our understanding of comparative industrial relations and human resource policies. The authors, scholars in economics, political science, sociology, industrial relations and law, first identify a representative set of employment practices and then look at the outcomes of those practices and the changes they are undergoing across different national settings. By collaborating, the contributors seek to clarify the dynamics of employment relations across the world today, and to set the terms of reference for a new generation of international-comparative employment research.

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Synopsis:

In order to address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, this text looks at the critical role that employment relations play in firm performance and industry competitiveness worldwide. The essays employ a common framework to examine changes in the employment practices of 11 OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries: the United States; the United Kingdom; Canada; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; Norway; Sweden; Austria; and Japan. They constitute the first phase in a large ongoing project at the Centre for Industrial Performance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to update the understanding of comparative industrial relations and human resource policies. The authors first identify a representative set of employment practices and the changes they are undergoing across different national settings. By collaborating, the contributors seek to clarify the dynamics of employment relations across the world and to set the terms of reference for a new generation of international comparative employment research.

About the Author:

Richard M. Locke is Class of 1992 Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thomas Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Codirector of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He teaches courses on the future of work to MIT students on campus and to the general public through the MITx online platform.He is coauthor (with Paul Osterman, Richard M. Locke, and Michael J. Piore) of Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market (MIT Press). Michael J. Piore is Professor in MIT's Economics and Political Science Departments.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262620987
• ISBN 13: 9780262620987
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428