Review
The most enduring and valuable book in the field of international and comparative employment relations in the last 30 years, the 6th edition covers advanced and emerging economies with insightful theoretical implications from a comparative perspective. -- Dong-One Kim
In this most recent edition, the editors and contributors build, refine, and expand their analysis of employment relations and apply it to a much larger set of workers and employers than they did in previous editions of the book. The book’s approach is particularly important at a time when trends toward economic globalization are increasingly countered by governments trying to preserve the autonomy of their own employment systems. -- Jeffrey Wheeler
The most comprehensive and authoritative comparative analysis of employment relations….especially welcomed because it provides excellent comparisons of how employment systems in different countries responded to the effects of the post-2007 "Great Recession". By doing so this stellar group of authors and editors provide new insights on the adaptability of labor market institutions across the globe. -- Thomas Kochan
The book breaks new ground as an integrated account of the forces shaping employment relations. It provides expert analysis of the national regulation of labour for more than half the world’s population. The introduction sets out a theoretical framework within which the salient institutional characteristics of the different countries discussed in the following chapters can be appreciated and compared. -- William Brown
This new edition of a highly praised book is commended for its timely analysis of the impact of globalisation on national industrial relations. -- Janice Bellace
This book will be welcomed by students and scholars seeking to understand the implications of the interconnectedness of national economies for national-level employment relations, institutions and actors. Twelve countries are explored in chapters written by national experts who together with contributions from the esteemed editors provide detailed information and conceptual tools. -- Linda Dickens ― University of Warwick, UK
This pioneering book sets the standard for the field. It offers a theoretically informed analysis, which links key trends in employment relations across twelve countries to global phenomena. It is essential reading for those interested in comparative industrial relations as well as political economy. -- Jimmy Donaghey
This latest edition is another major contribution by a group of eminent scholars in the field. It serves to promote the study of comparative employment relations in the current context of globalization which is also of topical interest to the International Labour Organization (ILO). -- Guy Ryder
Each of the contributors to the work are world class scholars. The editors are similarly elite at their game. In addition, all parties have had a chance to refine their act to the point (now) where they have created something truly indispensable for the serious student of comparative employment relations―or those merely interested in same. Read it ! You will learn a lot about its subject matter and how to write. You may even enjoy the experience of viewing real and important scholarship.
-- Anthony Gould
A classic reference book on international and comparative employment relations, it provides an authoritative, up-to-date and systematic account
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it offers labour law scholars, practitioners, and policymakers with a smorgasbord of background knowledge, concepts, and tools to compare and evaluate how work is organised and governed in different parts of the world, which will no doubt create meaningful insights into our own -- Mimi Zou ― Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4 Published On: 2018-12-01 About the Author
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 Russell D. Lansbury - Emeritus Professor, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
Nick Wailes - Professor; Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chris F. Wright is an Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. Chris's research focuses on the intersection of employment, globalisation and public policy, with a particular interest in labour immigration, comparative employment relations and sustainable supply chains. He has authored more than 80 scholarly publications, including rcecent articles in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial & Labor Relations Review and Journal of Business Ethics. Chris is an Editor of Journal of Industrial Relations and an Associate Editor of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society.
