Comparative Workplace Employment Relations

Thomas Amossé is a Public Statistician and researcher at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, France. Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL, UK.  During the writing of this book, Alex was Head of the Employment Group at the UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research, where he remains a Visiting Fellow.John Forth is a Principal Research Fellow and a member of the Employment Group at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, UK. Héloïse Petit is Professor of Economics at University Lille 1 and a Research Fellow at CLERSE and Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, France.

“This book offers a substantial contribution to comparative employment relations at the workplace level in France and the UK. … the authors show a particularly open scientific approach by indicating routes to access the raw data they have used in a detailed appendix. They also provide a rich bibliography for each chapter allowing the immediate resituation of each set of data in the context of actual debates. A very stimulating and productive read!.” (Sylvie Contrepois, Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)“This study represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive comparatively informed overview of employment relations, practices and outcomes. To that end, the work achieves considerable success, providing a resource which will prove invaluable for lecturers, researchers, and, of course, policy-makers. … The book and these resources will surely both stimulate and aid further comparative research.” (Duncan Adam, Transfer, Vol. 23 (1), 2017)

• Chapter One: Managing and Working in Britain and France- An Introduction-. Chapter Two: Workplace Structure and Governance- How Do Employers Differ Between Britain and France?-. Chapter Three: Employee Expression and Representation at Work- Voice or Exit?-. Chapter Four: Tenure, Skill Development and Pay- The Role of Internal Labour Markets-. Chapter Five: Work Organization and HRM- Does Context Matter?-. Chapter Six: Job Quality-. Chapter Seven: How did Workplaces Respond to Recession?-. Chapter Eight: Viva La Difference? Managing and Working in Britain and France-. Technical Appendix-. Bibliography-.