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Understanding Work and Employment Relations

Series editors: Andy Hodder, University of Birmingham, and Stephen Mustchin, University of Manchester

The field of employment relations examines aspects central to the critical relation, control, regulation and governance of work and the employment relationship.

Cutting across human resource management and the sociology of work, to law, politics, history, geography and economics, it critically engages with issues of work and employment in their wider socio-economic context.

Published in association with the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), Understanding Work and Employment Relations is a new book series which will publish ground-breaking scholarly work that highlights the latest research and commentary in this important field.

Presenting an exciting platform for works which go beyond the scope of the standard journal article, the series will publish monographs and edited collections.

Reflecting the field’s increasingly diverse and internationalised nature, books in the series will cover a range of international and comparative perspectives and topics, including:

  • equality, diversity, gender, work and employment;
  • new technology, digitalisation and employment relations;
  • the changing nature of representation at work and employee voice;
  • the political economy of work;
  • new forms of collective action and resistance within work and employment.

 

We invite prospective authors from around the world to submit proposals for books of between 60,000 and 100,000 words in length. Edited collections are welcomed, although we encourage editors to think carefully about the internal cohesion and consistency of their manuscripts.

If you would like to discuss submitting a proposal, please email a.j.hodder@bham.ac.uk or Stephen.Mustchin@manchester.ac.uk.

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Organizing Women

Gender Equality Policies in French and British Trade Unions

This book explores the representation of women’s interests in the world of work across 4 trade unions in France and the UK. Drawing on case studies, it unveils the social, organisational and political conditions that contribute to the reproduction of gender inequalities or, on the contrary, allow the promotion of equality.

Bristol Uni Press

Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age

A Comparative Perspective

This book offers a complete view of the new labour conflicts in the platform economy. Through case studies in advanced economies in Europe and the US and with an original approach that combines social movement studies and industrial relations, it provides a radical interpretation on the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age.

Bristol Uni Press

The Value of Industrial Relations

Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain

Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book critically reviews the future of Industrial Relations (IR)in a changing work landscape and traces its historical evolution. Essential for academics, students and trade unions, it explores IR's significant changes over the past decade and its ongoing influence on our lives.

Bristol Uni Press

The Politics of Migrant Labour

Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction

At a time when worker shortages have emerged as a global challenge, this highly original book bridges migration and labour studies to examine worker mobility and its management. This will be a valuable resource for both scholars and practitioners.

Bristol Uni Press

Crises at Work

Economy, Climate and Pandemic

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic. This book asks how these larger societal issues lead to a crisis with work, making it ever more precarious, unequal and intense. Experts diagnose the nature of the problem and offer a programme for transcending above the crises.

Bristol Uni Press