Industrial and labour market policy and performance : issues and perspectives / edited by Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffey, Dan, 1966-

Thornley, Carole, 1955-

Series:

Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 16.

Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--Great Britain.

Labor policy.

Labor market--Great Britain.

Labor market.

Labor economics--Great Britain.

Labor economics.

Industrial policy--Great Britain.

Industrial policy.

Labor policy--Europe.

Labor market--Europe.

Labor economics--Europe.

Industrial policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed.""This controversial statement sums up the heart of this important book. With contributions from such scholars as Keith Cowling, Malcolm Sawyer and Michael Kitson, Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance covers such topics as:* the increasing inequality between rich and poor* the links between innovation, competition and collaboration* education, skills formation and human resource manag

Contents:

Front Cover; Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Editors' preface; 1. Introduction: across the policy divide: Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley; 2. Industrial policy and economic development: Christine Oughton; 3. Markets, competition, co-operation and innovation: Michael Kitson, Jonathan Michie and Maura Sheehan; 4. Best practice manufacture as industrial policy: lean production, competitiveness and monopoly capitalism: Dan Coffey

5. Industrial policy, transnational corporations and the problem of 'hollowing out' in Japan: Keith Cowling and Philip R. Tomlinson6. Labour market policy and inequality in the UK: Carole Thornley; 7. The problem of British education policy as economic policy: Francis Green; 8. HRM, commitment, insecurity and low pay: some indicative evidence from the European banking sector: Steve Jefferys, Carole Thornley and Sylvie Contrepois; 9. Equal opportunities and productive efficiency in the workplace: fairness, employee participation and the firm: Virginie Perotin and Andrew Robinson

10. Reassessing regulation: productivity, wage costs and trade union 'power' in the dock: Dan Coffey11. The Private Finance Initiative: a critical assessment: Malcolm Sawyer; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-49753-9

1-280-14202-2

0-203-98672-5

9780203986721

OCLC:

437150962