International and Comparative Employment Relations

Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian academic, researcher and writer. He is Professor, Department of Management and Director, International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work, Centre for Global Business, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at University (U) of Manchester, London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh.  In his early career, he worked on research projects based at Imperial College, London; Oxford; and Warwick, at the UK Government’s former Commission on Industrial Relations and as an arbitrator with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was an academic at the Durham U, UK and subsequently an academic in Australia at Queensland U; Queensland U of Technology (Director, Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U (Dean/Director, Graduate School of Management). The book International & Comparative Employment Relations edited by him and colleagues that was first published in 1987 is seen as "the standard work", which is used around the world. SAGE will publish the 7th edition in 2021. He has more than 200 other publications in leading journals and books such as Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees. He has helped to lead many research projects funded by the ARC and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization), governments and enterprises have commissioned him to conduct research projects or to be an advisor on work organisation, HR or industrial relations. He has conducted research in many sectors including aviation, agriculture, building, chemicals, education, electronics, engineering, finance, health, hotels, infrastructure, mining, the public sector, railways, restaurants, retailing, tourism, telecommunications, manufacturing and unions as well as a range of enterprises in Australia internationally. He is President, the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association and has served earlier as President of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (Australia) and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. He is Co-Chair: International Section, US Labor & Employment Relations Association (LERA). He is a Fellow of ANZAM, LERA, Academy of Social Sciences, UK; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources Institute; British Academy of Management; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK; Chartered Management Institute, UK. He has served also as a Director on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. He has given presentations at many other universities and conferences in many countries including in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA. He is a regular commentator in the electronic and printed mass media in Australia and internationally. For more, see The Conversation, Linkedin, Orcid, Twitter, Who′s Who in Australia, YouTube or ask:gregbamber@gmail.com Fang Lee Cooke is Professor of HRM and Asia Studies, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in the area of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, international HRM, diversity and inclusion management, employment relations, migrant studies, HRM in the healthcare sector, digitalisation and implications for employment and HRM; and low carbon growth and future of work. Fang Lee Cooke’s recent research projects examine some of these tensions, challenges and implications for various key stakeholders such as the state, employers’ associations, unions, workers, and labour NGOs. Virginia Doellgast is Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School). Her research focuses on the political economy of work and employment; particularly the impact of labour unions and labour market institutions on economic inequality, job quality, and precarity. Her publications include Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy (Cornell University Press,) and Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe (Oxford University Press).

The new edition of this widely admired text analyses systematically the rapidly changing world of employment relations in a range of countries. It places similarities and differences in a powerful framework embracing global and national forces and the strategies and choices of governments, employers and workers.

• Foreword Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour OrganizationChapter 1 Introduction: Internationally Comparative Approaches to Studying Employment Relations - Chris F. Wright, Greg J. Bamber, Virginia Doellgast & Fang Lee CookeChapter 2 Employment Relations in the United Kingdom - Stewart Johnstone & Tony DobbinsChapter 3 Employment Relations in the United States - Harry C. Katz & Alexander J.S. ColvinChapter 4 Employment Relations in Canada - Scott Walsworth, Sean O’Brady & Daphne G. TarasChapter 5 Employment Relations in Australia - Chris F. Wright & Sarah KaineChapter 6 Employment Relations in Italy - Lisa Dorigatti & Roberto PedersiniChapter 7 Employment Relations in France - Élodie Béthoux & Patrice LarocheChapter 8 Employment Relations in Germany - Berndt K. Keller & Anja KirschChapter 9 Employment Relations in Denmark - Søren Kaj Andersen, Nana Wesley Hansen, Jørgen Steen Madsen & Jesper DueChapter 10 Employment Relations in Japan - Katsuyuki Kubo & Kazuya OguraChapter 11 Employment Relations in South Korea - Byoung-Hoon LeeChapter 12 Employment Relations in China - Fang Lee CookeChapter 13 Employment Relations in India - Ernesto Noronha & Premilla D’CruzChapter 14 Employment Relations in South Africa - Johann Maree, Gilton Klerck & Asanda-Jonas BenyaChapter 15 Conclusions: Globalisation, Crises and Institutional Responses - Virginia Doellgast, Chris F. Wright, Fang Lee Cooke & Greg J. Bamber