An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference. The book focuses on comparative work and employment relations research conducted within a broader political economy framework. Written by leading academics, it contains cutting-edge research.
1. Comparative Political Economy and Labour Process Theory: Toward a Synthesis; Matt Vidal and Marco Hauptmeier 2. Varieties of Capitalism Reconsidered: Learning from the Great Recession and its Aftermath; Jason Heyes, Paul Lewis and Ian Clark 3. Do the UK and Australia Have Sustainable Business Models?; John Buchanan, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams and Serena Yu 4. Incoherence and Dysfunctionality in the Institutional Regulation of Capitalism; Matt Vidal 5. Value Chains and Networks in Services - Crossing Borders, Crossing Sectors, Crossing Regimes?; Bettina Haidinger, Annika Schonauer, Jorg Flecker and Ursula Holtgrewe 6. Greening Steel Work: Varieties of Capitalism, the Environmental Agenda and Innovating for the Greening of the Labour Process; Claire Evans and Dean Stroud 7. Board-Level Employee Representatives in Norway, Sweden and Denmark: Differently Powerless or Equally Important?; Inger Marie Hagen 8. Ideas and Institutions: The Evolution of Employment Relations in the Spanish and German Auto Industry; Marco Hauptmeier & Glenn Morgan 9. Collapse of Collective Action? Employment Flexibility, Union Membership and Strikes in European Companies; Giedo Jansen and Agnes Akkerman 10. Coming to Terms with Firm-Level Diversity: An Investigation of Flexibility and Innovative Capability Profiles in the Transformed 'German Model'; Stefan Kirchner and Jurgen Beyer 11. Coordinated Divergences: Changes in Collective Bargaining Systems and Their Labour Market Implications in Korea; Hyunji Kwon and Sang-hoon Lim 12. The State and Employment in Liberal Market Economies: Industrial Policy in the UK Pharmaceutical and Food Manufacturing Sectors; Enda Hannon 13. Does Political Congruence Help Us Understand Trade Union Renewal?; Martin Upchurch, Richard Croucher and Matt Flynn 14. Quality of Work in the Cleaning Industry: A Complex Picture Based on Sectoral Regulation and Customer-Driven Conditions; Vassil Kirov, Monique Ramioul 15. Posted Migration, Spaces of Exception, and the Politics of Labour Relations in the European Construction Industry; Nathan Lillie, Ines Wagner and Lisa Berntsen 16. Employment Relations Under External Pressure: Italian and Spanish Reforms During the Great Recession; Guglielmo Meardi
