Financial Services Partnerships: Labor-Management Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9780415429528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 298 str.

Peter Samuel

Opis

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership debate. Secondly, he clarifies the circumstances under which ‘effective’ labour-management partnership is possible, while simultaneously elaborating why the achievement of ‘mutual gains’ is highly improbable in a liberal-market context. Thirdly, the book presents an integrated analysis of the interplay between macro-, meso- (industry) and micro-level factors. Fourthly, the research design enables the study to go beyond the case studies to make defendable empirical generalizations at the level of the industry. Finally, it advances a theoretical explanation of labour-management partnerships in ‘liberal market’ economies by bridging two opposing neo-institutional positions in the social sciences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Themes and Issues  2. Multiple-methods, One Sector, Four Cases and One Union  3. Structural Origins  4. Management and Workplace Union Motives  5. Form  6. Employer Outcomes  7. Union and Worker Outcomes  8. Conclusion: The Dynamics of Partnership