Labnet: Book Ann: Realities of partnership at work

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From: Martin Upchurch [mailto:M.Upchurch at mdx.ac.uk] 

The Realities of Partnership at Work

Published 31 Oct 2008
£55.00
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan 
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276558 

Description

'The Realities of Partnership at Work' finds evidence of work intensification, increased stress and more job insecurity where partnership has been introduced in the workplace. This definitive study, written by leading authors in the field, suggests that partnership is a utopian Third Way project designed to suppress and deny workplace conflict. The concept of 'good' partnership, following the Trade Union Congress' (TUC) six principles of partnership, is probed and tested and found to fall short of employees' and unions' expectations. Government and employer efforts to use workplace consensus as a vehicle for productivity growth inevitably exacerbate the tensions between worker and employer interest, making prospects for mutual gains illusory. Research for this book was funded by the ESRC 'Future of Work' Programme, and it includes extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from finance, aerospace and the public sector. 

Few subjects could be judged more vital to current policy debates than the prospects for work and employment. The Future of Work series, edited by Professor Peter Nolan, Director of the ESRC Future of Work Programme, provides the much needed evidence and theoretical advances to enhance our understanding of the critical developments most likely to impact on people’s 
working lives. 

Contents 

Partnership at Work
What is Partnership
The High Performance Workplace: Fact or Fiction?
Gambling with Employee Voice in the Finance Sector
Best Value in a Local Authority
Partnership on Prescription in the NHS
Goodbye Blue Sky: Partnership in the UK Aerospace Sector
Whither Partnership?

Author Biographies

MARTIN UPCHURCH is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School, London, UK where he convenes the Global Work and Employment Project. As well as writing and researching on UK industrial relations he has authored articles on labour related issues in Germany and the former Yugoslavia.

ANDY DANFORD is Professor of Employment Relations at the Centre for Employment Studies Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is the author of a number of books and journal articles on the themes of trade union renewal and critical studies of lean production and the high performance workplace.

STEPHANIE TAILBY is Professor of Employment Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and is Director of the Centre for Employment Studies Research. Her other recent research focuses on the contingent workforce in the healthcare and finance industries. 

MIKE RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer in Employee Relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. His research interests include labour history, industrial sociology and the labour process.



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