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Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment

Series Editors:
Irena Grugulis, Bradford University, UK
Caroline Lloyd, Cardiff University, UK
Chris Smith, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Chris Warhurst, University of Strathclyde, UK

This book series combines the best empirical research with leading edge, critical debate on key issues and developments in the field of work and employment. Extremely well-regarded and popular, the series is linked to the highly successful International Labour Process Conference, which is a vibrant international forum bringing together researchers and policy makers in the field. With over 20 volumes so far published, the series is now firmly established as essential reading for anyone interested in the latest debates and empirical research on work and employment. Each volume in the series includes contributions from a range of disciplines, including the sociology of work and employment, business and management studies, human resource management, industrial relations and organisational analysis.

Further details of the International Labour Process Conference can be found at www.ilpc.org.uk.

New Titles

Work Less, Live More?
Edited by: Chris Warhurst, Doris Ruth Eikhof and Axel Haunschild

The relationship between work and life has become a key feature of much current government, practitioner and academic debate. In Work Less, Live More?, the authors respond to recent developments that challenge the work-life boundary, including the changing locations of work, new forms of work and work intensification.

April 2008 Paperback £25.99

Work Matters
Edited by: Sharon C. Bolton and Maeve Houlihan

Work Matters offers a strong set of empirical accounts on the experience of work in the contemporary workplace - accounts that bring forth the voice and humanity of people in relation to their work experiences.

March 2009 Paperback £26.99

Creative Labour
Edited by: Alan McKinlay and Chris Smith

Creative labour has become a growing area of the market, and of management study. Alan McKinlay and Chris Smith have compiled the first book to look at the creative industries from a labour process perspective. The text concludes with an authoritative investigation into managing new media workers.

March 2009 Paperback £26.99

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Workplaces of the Future
Edited by: Paul Thompson and Chris Warhurst

Workplaces of the Future examines change in workplace structures and relations and considers what the contemporary workplace looks like. The book contains a wide range of issues and examples from factory and office, manual and non-manual work, public and private sector that illustrate the nature of the future of work. Contributions are drawn from the key names in this field and include international material.

March 1998 Hardback £29.99

The Skills That Matter
Edited by: Chris Warhurst, Ewart Keep and Irena Grugulis

The Skills That Matter is an edited collection written by leading academics from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia in the area of skills acquisition, formation and development. It combines academic evidence and policy debates with a critical analysis, making it an asset to students of HRM, industrial relations, sociology of work and business and management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as being a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the field of skill formation.

February 2004 Paperback £28.99

Participation and Democracy at Work
Edited by: Jeff Hyman, Paul Thompson and Bill Harley

Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This book will bring together a fresh, critical and comparative perspective on the full range of participation practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field. It is inteded to honour the work of Harvie Ramsay, who died tragically in 2001 and who was a pioneering writer on participation and democracy in this field.

March 2005 Paperback £28.99

Customer Service
Edited by: Andrew Sturdy, Irena Grugulis and Hugh Willmott

Customer service is at the centre of many recent changes in work and organisations and is often celebrated as being of benefit to all. This book explores the real nature of customer service from different critical perspectives drawing on a wide range of sectors internationally.

A provocative and insightful work aimed at students of organisations and management as well as thoughtful practitioners.

March 2001 Paperback £28.99

Managing Knowledge
Edited by: Craig Prichard, Mike Chumer, Hugh Willmott and Richard Hull

Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the naive, self interested and popularised messages that surround knowledge work and knowledge management. Case studies highlight the politics of new communications technologies which are frequently offered as a means for managing knowledge in the workplace.

April 2000 Paperback £30.99

Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Edited by: Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson

In recent years there has been a significant growth in flexible or 'non-standard' forms of employment. Within a conceptual framework that focuses on the nature of employment relationships, the book explores the spatial and temporal connections between work and non-work and the development of flexible labour within a global arena. In addition, it considers the circumstances which have given rise to a variety of 'non-standard' forms, including the impact of deregulation, government policies, unemployment, globalisation, employer strategies and trade union responses. Providing an international and comparative focus, it offers an up-to-date and detailed account of an increasingly common form of work.

March 1999 Paperback £28.99

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