Contents
Introduction: Politics, Public Policy and the Employment Relationship.
by Edmund Heery, Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull

Business Matters: How the Character of the Employment Relationship Shapes Family Life and the Implications for Public Policy.
by Peter Ackers

Trade Union Internationalism: Beyond the Nation State.
by Rachel Annand

Capital Anchoring and Co-operative Ownership: The Reality of the Operation of a Co-operative Enterprise in a Globalising Economy.
by Len Arthur, Tom Keenoy, Russell Smith and Peter Anthony

Employment Relations in a Newly Liberalised Economy: The Case of India.
by Pawan Budhwar and Naresh Khatri

The Gender Dimensions of Job Insecurity in a Local Labour Market in South Wales
by Nickie Charles and Emma James

The State as Employer: The Perception and Experiences of Visible Minority Men and Women Employees in a London Local Authority.
by Richard Charlesworth, Fiona Colgan, Chris Creegan and Gill Robinson

Performing for the 'Customer': Managing Housing Benefit Operations Across Organisational Boundaries.
by Fang Lee Cooke, Mick Marchington and Gail Hesbon

Managing the Employment Relationship in a Market Economy.
by Daryl D'Art

Embedding Social Partnership in Ireland.
by Jimmy Donaghey

Policy Choice or Constraint? The Case of Labour Relations Reform in the New South Africa
by Eddy Donnelly and Stephen Dunn

The Politics of Employment Relations and Globalisation: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Triad.
by A.M. Fapohunda

Policy and Politics in School Education: Professional Autonomy, Bureaucratic Control and Performance Management
by Catherine Farrell and Jonathan Morris

Worker Mobilisation, Collectivism and Trade Unionism in Call Centres in Britain.
by Gregor Gall, Peter Bain, Kay Gilbert, Gareth Mulvey and Philip Taylor

Structural Reform and Labour Markets in Europe.
by Roy Green

Employee Rights: Better Employment Relationships or the Growth of the Organisational Rule Book?
by Lynette Harris

Managing Change in the Public Sector.
by Lesley Holly, Helen Rainbird, Anne Munro and Ruchira Leiston

Disabled People and the National Minimum Wage.
by Maria Hudson

From Rights to Responsibilities: The Shift to Mutualism.
by Leonie Jennings

Moonlighting of Academics in Chinese Universities.
by Huan Li

On 'the Political Economy of Skill': Assessing the Possibilities for a Viable High Skills Project in the UK.
by Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne

New Labour, New Deal? Employment Relations in the Small Business Sector of the British Economy.
by Harry Matlay

Expatriate Repatriation: A Chore or a Challenge?
by George Neilson

How New Collective Rights are Reshaping Collective Bargaining
by Sarah Oxenbridge, William Brown, Simon Deakin, Cliff Pratten and Paul Ryan

Duck Jay Park The Change of Labour Policy and its Effects on the Labour Market in Korea.
by Duck Jay Park

The State We Are In (and Against).
by Al Rainnie and Peter Fairbrother

The Politics of Union Organising : The Case of Japan.
by John Salmon and Hirokuni Tabata

Contingent Work in the Public Sector: A Survey of Fixed-term Contract Workers in Higher Education.
by Melanie Simms, Edmund Heery and Claudette Farias

The Role of Appraisal and Training in Reducing Staff Turnover in the Western Australian Accommodation Industry.
by Ruth Taylor, Doug Davies and Lawson Savery

Corporatism in Ireland.
by Thomas Turner

Transnational Capital and the End of National Social Settlements? Recent Developments in Sweden
by Guy Vernon and Chris Rees

The Re-Regulation of Employment Relations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
by Peter Waring and John Lewer

Public Sector Pay Under Labour: Change and Continuity 1997-2001.
by Geoff White and Alastair Hatchett

More of a 'Ripple' than a 'Shock'? The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Hospitality Industry. .
by Steve Williams, Derek Adam-Smith and Gill Norris

State Intervention and the Employment of People with Disabilities: Evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) from a Socio-historic Perspective.
by Carol Woodhams