A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Employment Relations

Chapter 1: Introducing Employment Relations Chapter 2: A Very Short History on Employment Relations and Its Perspectives Chapter 3: Casinos, Crises and Cutbacks: the Context for Employment Relations Chapter 4: Who's Who in Employment Relations? Chapter 5: Collaboration and Consent: Cooperation at Work Chapter 6: Strikes and Strife: Conflict at Work Chapter 7: Having a Say: Earnings and Working Time Chapter 8: Some Concluding Thoughts: ER Education, Immiseration and Automation

An accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of employment relations that also sheds light on broader social and economic dilemmas we face. The authors are provocative - hitting the important tensions and contradictions facing working people today - with rich anecdotes from popular media and culture that bring the underlying academic research to life. -- Rosemary Batt This book provides an elegant, insightful and concise introduction to the field of Employment Relations. It is essential reading for anyone entering the field as a student and is an equally essential aid for anyone teaching in the subject area. -- Edmund Heery I really did enjoy and chuckle reading this. And boy did it take me back! Without wishing to sound too irreverent I can only conclude: Despite having rubbish jokes and a terrible taste in music, the authors have written a book that makes ER genuinely interesting. -- Dr Peter Dwyer This book is short and reasonably cheap but also intensely interesting, informative and entertaining! The authors convincingly demonstrate that employment relations are important not only for anyone in today's workforce but also for how social wealth and income are distributed throughout society. It should be on every business school's reading list. -- Russell Lansbury Dundon, Cullinane & Wilkinson's A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Employment Relations may indeed be short and quirky. More importantly however it is substantial in content, balanced in approach and characterised by an engaging contemporary orientation, addressing as it does precarious work, low/zero hours contracts and the impact of technology and robotics on work and working lives. It also provides a critical and informed analysis of the impact of globalisation and financialisation. I have no doubt that students will like it. Who couldn't like an ER text that uses "Johnny Rotten's sneer" to illustrate the growth of radicalism in the 1970s? -- Dr Patrick Gunnigle