The Evolution of the Modern Workplace - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107405041 ISBN 13: 9781107405042

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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:

William Brown is the Master of Darwin College and Professor of Industrial Relations at Cambridge University. He was previously Director of the ESRC's Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He was a foundation member of the Low Pay Commission, which fixes the UK's National Minimum Wage. He is a member of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Panel of Arbitrators, and was an independent member of the ACAS Council. In 2002 he was awarded a CBE for services to employment relations. Alex Bryson is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was previously Research Director at the Policy Studies Institute where he has worked for nineteen years. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bryson's research focuses on industrial relations and labour economics. Recently he has been applying techniques common in the evaluation literature to problems in industrial relations. He has published his work in many books and journals, including the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Economica, Human Relations, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the Journal of Labor Research and the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. In 2005 he became an editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations. In 2005-2006 he was the Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School and the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2007-2008 he was a member of the Sector Skills Development Agency's Expert Panel. John Forth is a research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). He was involved in the design and primary analysis of the 1998 and 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS). 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107405041
• ISBN 13: 9781107405042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Brown William, Bryson Alex, Forth John, Whitfield Keith