How have employment relations evolved over the last decade? And how did workplaces and employees fare in the face of the longest recession in living memory?Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession examines the state of British employment relations in 2011, how this has changed since 2004, and the role the recession played in shaping employees' experiences of work. It draws on findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study, comparing these with the results of the...

This book is the latest publication reporting the results of a series of workplace surveys conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service and the Policy Studies Institute. It addresses such contemporary employee relations issues as:* Have new configurations of labour-management practices become embedded in the British economy?* Did the dramatic decline in trade union representatio...

Based on the primary analysis of the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), this is the fifth book in the series which began in 1980, and which is considered to be one of the most authoritative sources of information on employment relations in Great Britain. Interviews were conducted with managers and employee representatives in over 3,000 workplaces, and over 20,000 employees returned a self-completion questionnaire. This survey links the views from these three p...

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOTH Twenty-five women and non-binary writers from the worlds of Horror Fiction and Illustration drag the blackened heart of Classic Gothic Horror out into the open, sculpting a sleeker, fiercer beast and recasting the legacy of our original Gothmothers in a chilling contemporary light. Within the walls of an arcane modern art gallery...into the blackest burrows of the animal kingdom...tableside at the world' s last restaurant on the eve of the apocalypse...from ...

The last thirty years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Manufacturing and nationalized industries contracted and private services expanded. Employment became more diverse. Trade union membership collapsed. Collective bargaining disappeared from much of the private sector, as did strikes. This was accompanied by the rise of human resource management and new employment practices. The law, once largely absent, increasingly became a dominant influence. The experience of work ...

With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relations over the last two to three decades. This orthodoxy has been thrown into question due to concerns of poor corporate decision-making, corporate capture of regulators, perceived rewards for failure, and uneven productivity growth. But a new spirit of introspection and doubt about orthodox approaches has created some impetus leading to greater in...

This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d’Entreprise (REPONSE). These extensive linked employer-employee surveys provide nationally-representative data on private sector employment relations in all but the smallest workplaces, and offer a unique o...

TAHUKAH KAMU BAHWA . . . • Setiap atom dalam tubuh hampir pasti telah melewati beberapa bintang dan pernah menjadi bagian dari jutaan organisme dalam perjalanannya menjadi bagian dari dirimu? • Jika ukuran tubuhmu normal, kamu memiliki energi potensial yang cukup untuk meledak sedahsyat bom hidrogen? Apa yang telah terjadi dengan dinosaurus? Berapa besarkah jagat raya? Berapa beratkah bumi? Mengapa air laut asin? Apakah meteorit dapat menimpa kita? Berapakah ukuran sebuah atom? Bill Bryson...