Globalization, employment, and the workplace : diverse impacts / / edited by Yaw A. Debrah and Ian G. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910679516003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1-85385-240-6; 1-134-52797-7; 1-134-52798-5; 1-280-02132-2; 0-203-45167-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages)
• Collana: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ; ; 28
• Altri autori (Persone): DebrahYaw A. <1956->; SmithIan G
• Disciplina: 337
• Soggetti: Foreign trade and employment; Globalization - Economic aspects; International business enterprises - Employees; International labor activities - Congresses; Labor market; Free trade
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at the 1999 Employment Research Unit conference at the Cardiff Business School.; Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 Globalization, employment and the workplace: diverse impacts? YAW A. DEBRAH AND IAN G. SMITH -- Diverse impacts? / Yaw A. Debrah -- chapter 2 Globalization, restructuring and occupational labour power -- Evidence from the international airline industry / Paul Blyton -- chapter 3 Global labour? The transfer of the organizing model to the United Kingdom / Edmund Heery -- chapter 4 The impact of ownership change on industrial relations, jobs and employees terms and conditions / Nicholas Bacon -- chapter 5 What we do or "Who we are"? -- Trade union responses to globalization and regionalization in South Africa / Andries Bezuidenhout -- chapter 6 Globalization, ; economic institutions and workplace change -- The economic reform processes in China / John Hassard -- chapter 7 Globalization and employment in Latin America: some issues and challenges REGINA M. A. A. GALHARDI -- Some issues and challenges / Regina M.A.A. Galhardi -- chapter 8 Beyond convergence and divergence contextualizing the implications of globalization on industrial relations: the cases of Germany and France / FREDERIC SPEIDEL -- chapter 9 Human resource management responses to global strategy in multinational enterprises / Peter Kidger -- chapter 10 Globalization, employment relations and reverse diffusion in multinational companies / Tony Edwards -- chapter 11 Globalization and Diversity Management -- Empirical evidence from Australia / Santina Bertone -- chapter 12 Globalization, global human resource management, and distance learning -- A study of the effectiveness of a global learning partnership / MARCIE LEPINE -- chapter 13 Responses to globalized production -- Restructuring and work reorganization in the clothing industry of high-wage countries / Ian M. Taplin.