International and Comparative Employment Relations 7/e

Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian academic, researcher and writer. He is Professor, Department of Management and Director, International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work, Centre for Global Business, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at University (U) of Manchester, London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh. In his early career, he worked on research projects based at Imperial College, London; Oxford; and Warwick, at the UK Government's former Commission on Industrial Relations and as an arbitrator with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was an academic at the Durham U, UK and subsequently an academic in Australia at Queensland U; Queensland U of Technology (Director, Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U (Dean/Director, Graduate School of Management). The book International & Comparative Employment Relations edited by him and colleagues that was first published in 1987 is seen as "the standard work", which is used around the world. SAGE will publish the 7th edition in 2021. He has more than 200 other publications in leading journals and books such as Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees. He has helped to lead many research projects funded by the ARC and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization), governments and enterprises have commissioned him to conduct research projects or to be an advisor on work organisation, HR or industrial relations. He has conducted research in many sectors including aviation, agriculture, building, chemicals, education, electronics, engineering, finance, health, hotels, infrastructure, mining, the public sector, railways, restaurants, retailing, tourism, telecommunications, manufacturing and unions as well as a range of enterprises in Australia internationally. He is President, the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association and has served earlier as President of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (Australia) and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. He is Co-Chair: International Section, US Labor & Employment Relations Association (LERA). He is a Fellow of ANZAM, LERA, Academy of Social Sciences, UK; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources Institute; British Academy of Management; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK; Chartered Management Institute, UK. He has served also as a Director on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. He has given presentations at many other universities and conferences in many countries including in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA. He is a regular commentator in the electronic and printed mass media in Australia and internationally. For more, see The Conversation, Linkedin, Orcid, Twitter, Who's Who in Australia, YouTube or ask:gregbamber@gmail.com Fang Lee Cooke is Professor of HRM and Asia Studies, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in the area of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, international HRM, diversity and inclusion management, employment relations, migrant studies, HRM in the healthcare sector, digitalisation and implications for employment and HRM; and low carbon growth and future of work. Fang Lee Cooke's recent research projects examine some of these tensions, challenges and implications for various key stakeholders such as the state, employers' associations, unions, workers, and labour NGOs. Virginia Doellgast is Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School). Her research focuses on the political economy of work and employment; particularly the impact of labour unions and labour market institutions on economic inequality, job quality, and precarity. Her publications include Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy (Cornell University Press,) and Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe (Oxford University Press).

Foreword Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization Chapter 1 Introduction: Internationally Comparative Approaches to Studying Employment Relations - Chris F. Wright, Greg J. Bamber, Virginia Doellgast & Fang Lee Cooke Chapter 2 Employment Relations in the United Kingdom - Stewart Johnstone & Tony Dobbins Chapter 3 Employment Relations in the United States - Harry C. Katz & Alexander J.S. Colvin Chapter 4 Employment Relations in Canada - Scott Walsworth, Sean O'Brady & Daphne G. Taras Chapter 5 Employment Relations in Australia - Chris F. Wright & Sarah Kaine Chapter 6 Employment Relations in Italy - Lisa Dorigatti & Roberto Pedersini Chapter 7 Employment Relations in France - Elodie Bethoux & Patrice Laroche Chapter 8 Employment Relations in Germany - Berndt K. Keller & Anja Kirsch Chapter 9 Employment Relations in Denmark - Soren Kaj Andersen, Nana Wesley Hansen, Jorgen Steen Madsen & Jesper Due Chapter 10 Employment Relations in Japan - Katsuyuki Kubo & Kazuya Ogura Chapter 11 Employment Relations in South Korea - Byoung-Hoon Lee Chapter 12 Employment Relations in China - Fang Lee Cooke Chapter 13 Employment Relations in India - Ernesto Noronha & Premilla D'Cruz Chapter 14 Employment Relations in South Africa - Johann Maree, Gilton Klerck & Asanda-Jonas Benya Chapter 15 Conclusions: Globalisation, Crises and Institutional Responses - Virginia Doellgast, Chris F. Wright, Fang Lee Cooke & Greg J. Bamber

The new edition of this widely admired text analyses systematically the rapidly changing world of employment relations in a range of countries. It places similarities and differences in a powerful framework embracing global and national forces and the strategies and choices of governments, employers and workers. -- Paul Edwards This new edition provides an excellent, up-to-date entry point into the study of international and comparative employment relations. Readers will benefit greatly from its geographic coverage and conceptual insights. -- Michele Ford By virtue of a veritable who's who of international experts authoring the country chapters, a review of the central theoretical debates in the field that is comprehensive and sophisticated, and attention to key challenges facing employment relations, including timely discussions of climate change and global public health crises, this volume is the best compendium of employment relations scholarship available. -- Chris Howell This comprehensive book has long been essential for the study of comparative employment relations. The new edition brings the coverage right up to date, with a focus for example on the crucial issue of COVID-19 and the world of work.' (Richard Hyman, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) 'The most enduring and valuable book in the field of international and comparative employment relations in the last 30 years, the seventh edition covers advanced and emerging economies with insightful theoretical implications from a comparative perspective. -- Dong-One Kim The 7th edition of the book builds on, and extends, the contributions of the earlier versions in a unique manner. This is a comparative and international book that is an important reference point for any scholar or student in the subject. It continues to broaden both the intellectual and empirical horizons of the subject allowing us to appreciate the nuances and differences - but also curious similarities - of different systems and national contexts. It is a significant reference point. -- Miguel Martinez Lucio The 7th edition of this established book is a gem: with an ever-stronger and more diverse team of contributors, it combines the rigorous analytical clarity of the previous editions with new perspectives and insights on the recent trends of precarious work, transnational economic, technological and environmental forces, and new forms of employer and employee activism. -- Guglielmo Meardi This new edition has grown in stature and sophistication. It demonstrates why an understanding of better work and the institutions that help to achieve it are so important, for those in the world of work and those preparing to enter it. -- Gregor Murray This classic book is an invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration for everyone - scholars, students and practitioners - interested in international and comparative perspectives on employment relations. The book offers important analysis of a multitude of national systems, as well as a discussion on current challenges facing the world of work, including the Covid-19 pandemic. -- Mia Roennmar This comprehensive book has long been essential for the study of comparative employment relations. The new edition brings the coverage right up to date, with a focus for example on the crucial issue of COVID-19 and the world of work. -- Richard Hyman This new edition of a highly praised book is commended for its timely analysis of the impact of globalisation on national industrial relations. -- Janice Bellace This book will be welcomed by students and scholars seeking to understand the implications of the interconnectedness of national economies for national level employment relations, institutions and actors ... countries are explored in chapters written by national experts who, together with contributions from the esteemed editors, provide detailed information and conceptual tools. -- Linda Dickens The book breaks new ground as an integrated account of the forces shaping employment relations. It provides expert analysis of the national regulation of labour for more than half the world's population. The introduction sets out a theoretical framework within which the salient institutional characteristics of the different countries discussed in the following chapters can be appreciated and compared. -- The late William Brown This pioneering book sets the standard for the field. It offers a theoretically informed analysis, which links key trends in employment relations across ...countries to global phenomena. It is essential reading for those interested in comparative industrial relations as well as political economy. -- Jimmy Donaghey The most comprehensive and authoritative comparative analysis of employment relations ... especially welcomed because ... this stellar group of authors and editors provide new insights on the adaptability of labor market institutions across the globe. -- Thomas Kochan By far the best and most widely used comparative industrial relations book. -- Sarosh Kuruvilla This latest edition is another major contribution by a group of eminent scholars in the field. It serves to promote the study of comparative employment relations in the current context of globalisation, which is also of topical interest to the International Labour Organization (ILO). -- Guy Ryder [The book] is state of the art. It is broad in its scope, and sophisticated in its consideration of national context and history. It gives a sense of where countries are headed, but also is replete with micro-level detail drawn from credible primary sources. -- Anthony Gould