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Industrial Relations Research (industrial + relations_research)
Selected AbstractsVarieties of Industrial Relations Research: Take-over, Convergence or Divergence?BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2005Carola M. Frege Industrial relations (IR) research faces various pressures of internationalization. Not only do global economic forces increasingly shape the subject of the discipline, employment relations, but also the academic community itself is becoming more international. The article discusses whether and in what ways IR research is affected by these trends. It is based on a comparative, longitudinal study of journal publications in the USA, Britain and Germany. The findings reveal significantly different patterns of IR research across the three countries. In particular, the strong variation between US and British research patterns challenges the common notion of a homogeneous Anglo-Saxon style in conducting social science research. The analysis suggests that despite growing internationalization, IR research continues to be strongly embedded in nationally specific research cultures and traditions. [source] Urban labour, voice and legitimacy: economic development and the emergence of community unionismINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2009Graham Symon ABSTRACT Community unionism has emerged in the past decade as a growing strand of industrial relations research and is influencing trade union strategies for renewal. This article seeks to further develop the concept, while exploring the potential roles for unions in communities subject to projects of urban regeneration. [source] Why gender and ,difference' matters: a critical appraisal of industrial relations researchINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006Jane Holgate ABSTRACT Through a critical rereading of key UK workplace case studies this article explores why gender analysis matters to studies of people at work. We argue that the field of industrial relations could benefit from a greater engagement with feminist-influenced methodologies. In particular, we analyse three methodological approaches that can assist in understanding the lives of workers; a framework that recognises intersectionality; an account that accommodates both material and cultural explanations; and a research process that is reflexive and recognises positionality. These are identified as intrinsic to a gender-sensitive analysis, and through a comparison of key texts it is possible to highlight why their absence leads to much research in this field remaining ,gender blind'. [source] Gender: the missing link in industrial relations researchINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006Ardha Danieli ABSTRACT This article extends the critique of how industrial relations research continues to be gender-blind and argues that it is in part a result of early definitions which relegated ,personal' relations as outside the boundaries of the field and in part a result of a simultaneous strategy of acknowledgement and abdication, acknowledging that gender is important while at the same time arguing that gender does not need to be addressed. In order to demonstrate how gender is central to industrial relations, the article uses Antonio Gramsci's concepts of ,hegemony', ,ideology', ,good sense' and ,common sense' to illustrate how patriarchal common sense is drawn on by both managers and trade unionists in negotiations over hours of work in a manufacturing firm in the North,-west of England. It is argued that in order to include gender as a central feature of industrial relations research, it is necessary to analyse how the interests of capital, labour and patriarchy are embedded in negotiations on the shopfloor. [source] | ||||||||||