The Evolution of the Modern Workplace - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521514568 ISBN 13: 9780521514569

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The last thirty years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Manufacturing and nationalized industries contracted and private services expanded. Employment became more diverse. Trade union membership collapsed. Collective bargaining disappeared from much of the private sector, as did strikes. This was accompanied by the rise of human resource management and new employment practices. The law, once largely absent, increasingly became a dominant influence. The experience of work has become more pressured. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace provides an authoritative account and analysis of these changes and their consequences. Its main source is the five Workplace Employment Relations Surveys that were conducted at roughly five-year intervals between 1980 and 2004. Drawing on this unique source of data, a team of internationally renowned scholars show how the world of the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

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Book Description

The last thirty years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Manufacturing and nationalized industries contracted and private services expanded. This book provides an authoritative account of how the world of the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

About the Author

Keith Whitfield is Professor of Human Resource Management and Economics and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies at Cardiff Business School and Director of Cardiff University's Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences. He was the ESRC's Academic Consultant and member of the Steering Group for the fifth Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), and is a founding member and on the Steering Group of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Methods and Data.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521514568
• ISBN 13: 9780521514569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Brown William, Bryson Alex, Forth John, Whitfield Keith