Labour Relations in the Global Fast-Food Industry

Dr Tony Royle is Reader in International and Comparative Industrial Relations at the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely in the field of industrial relations in multinational corporations and is the author of Working for McDonald's in Europe: The Unequal Struggle?, Professor Brian Towers is currently Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He has held a number of teaching and research appointments at British and American universities. He is Consulting and Founding Editor of the Industrial Relations Journal and has arbitrated for ACAS since 1975. He has published widely on trade unions and industrial relations public policy including The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in British and American Industrial Relations.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Tony Royle, Brian Towers; Chapter 2 Fast-food work in the United States, Robin Leidner; Chapter 3 Fast-food in Canada, Ester Reiter; Chapter 4 The 51st US state?, Tony Royle; Chapter 5 Undermining the system?, Tony Royle; Chapter 6 Consensus and confrontation, Jos Benders, Sonja Bekker, Birthe Mol; Chapter 7 To Russia with Big Macs, Stanislav V. Shekshnia, Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J. McCarthy; Chapter 8 ‘McAunties’ and ‘McUncles’, Alexius A. Pereira; Chapter 9 Employment relations in the Australian fast-food industry, Cameron Allan, Greg J. Bamber, Nils Timo; Chapter 10 Standard recipes?, Peter Haynes, Glenda Fryer; Chapter 11 Summary and conclusions, Tony Royle, Brian Towers References Index;