Employment Research and State Traditions: A Comparative History of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany - Hardcover

Frege, Carola

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199208069 ISBN 13: 9780199208067

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Contemporary employment research tackles an increasingly globalized subject, much of it using empiricist and a-theoretical methods increasingly embedded in a market-economic paradigm. However, this stands in stark contrast to employment research's historical roots. Exploring these roots, Carola Frege traces how employment research was born out of the industrial and also democratic transformations of the 19th century and shows that the variations of employment research can be traced back to nation-specific state traditions. In particular, how countries conceptualized their relationship between political and industrial democracy, to what extent their labour movements were more state-oriented, and what influence the state had on the organization of higher education and scientific research, and shaped research topics, methods, theories, and paradigms. The book argues that these different research cultures are still with us today, despite increasing globalization of the subject matter and g

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About the Author

Carola Frege is Reader in Employment Relations of the Management Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She studied economics, business administration, and employment relations in Freiburg, Basel, and London. She has been an Associate Professor at Rutgers University and Visiting Professor at Cornell University and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

She is the author of Social Partnership at Work: Workplace Relations in Post-Unification Germany (Routledge, 1999) and co-editor of Varieties of Unionism: Comparative Strategies for Union Renewal (OUP, 2004). Her work on comparative employment relations has appeared in journals such as ndustrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations, German Politics and Society, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. She is the forthcoming chief-editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Review

...this is an excellent book. Carola Frege has done much more than describe the decline of industrial and employment relations; she has helped us to understand it. I would urge everyone to read her book and to think about the important questions she raises. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199208069
• ISBN 13: 9780199208067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236