International handbook of trade unions
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International handbook of trade unions
E. Elgar, c2003
- : pbk.
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  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This Handbook is an authoritative and invaluable reference tool, uniquely analysing the forces governing unionism, union behaviour and union impact from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. The 14 chapters are written in an accessible style by acknowledged leading specialists from the fields of economics and industrial relations. They offer a truly international perspective on this important subject.This superbly comprehensive Handbook examines the determinants of union membership, models of union behaviour and the economics of strikes, as well as the effects of unions on wages, pay inequality and firm performance (to include innovation). It also analyses trade unions as political actors and their impact on macroeconomic performance. Institutional detail is added in specific chapters documenting recent developments in the US and the UK, and prospects for a Europeanization of collective bargaining. A review of union density in more than 100 nations, is also provided.
The Handbook is suited to a range of courses and is aptly designed to meet the needs of students - from undergraduates upwards - and academics in the fields of economics, industrial relations, human resources management, as well as general labour scholars.
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction
John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel
2. Determinants of Trade Union Membership
Claus Schnabel
3. Economic Models of Union Behaviour
Robin Naylor
4. Unions, Bargaining and Strikes
Peter Cramton and Joseph Tracy
5. Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence
David Metcalf
6. Collective Bargaining and Macroeconomic Performance
Robert J. Flanagan
7. Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in the UK and the USA Revisited
David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson
8. Unions and the Wage Structure
David Card, Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell
9. Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence
Naercio Menezes-Filho and John Van Reenen
10. Trade Unions as Political Actors
Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel
11. Unions and Unionism Around the World
Jelle Visser
12. Recent Changes in the Industrial Relations Framework in the UK
John T. Addison and W. Stanley Siebert
13. Europeanization of Collective Bargaining
Dieter Sadowski, Oliver Ludewig and Florian Turk
14. Contemporary Developments in and Challenges to Collective Bargaining in the United States
John Delaney
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"