This Handbook is a comparative treatment of employment relations, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in different parts of the

It cannot be denied that in recent decades, for many if not most people, work has become unstable and insecure, with serious risk and few benefits for workers.

This exciting new text is different from many of the employee relations textbooks currently available because it takes as its central theme the employment relat

This handbook is an indispensable teaching, research and reference guide for anyone interested in issues of labour and employment. The editors have assembled a

'Besides a well-written introduction by the two editors, the book presents seventeen other chapters, some by well-known writers on the subject or related social