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What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace
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What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace
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Overview
* What opportunities do employees in Anglo-American workplaces have to voice their concerns and what do they seek?
* To what extent, and in what contexts, do workers want greater union representation?
* How do workers feel about employer-initiated channels of influence? What styles of engagement do they want with employers?
* What institutional models are more successful in giving workers the voice they seek at workplaces?
* What can unions, employers, and public policy makers learn from these studies of representation and influence?
The research is based largely on surveys that were conducted as a follow-up to the influential Worker Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS) reported in What Workers Want, coauthored by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers in 1999 and updated in 2006. Taken together, these studies authoritatively outline workers' attitudes toward, and opportunities for, representation and influence in the Anglo-American workplace. They also enhance industrial relations theory and suggest strategies for unions, employers, and public policy.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780801444456 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 07/10/2007 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.88(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: The Anglo-American Economies and Employee Voice Richard B. Freeman Peter Boxall Peter Haynes 1
Can the United States Clear the Market for Representation and Participation? Richard B. Freeman 25
Say What? Employee Voice in Canada Michele Campolieti Rafael Gomez Morley Gunderson 49
What Voice Do British Workers Want? Alex Bryson Richard B. Freeman 72
Employee Voice in the Irish Workplace: Status and Prospect John Geary 97
Australian Workers: Finding Their Voice? Julian Teicher Peter Holland Amanda Pyman Brian Cooper 125
Employee Voice and Voicelessness in New Zealand Peter Boxall Peter Haynes Keith Macky 145
Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World: What Does It Mean for Unions? David Peetz Ann Frost 166
Why Should Employers Bother with Worker Voice? John Purcell Konstantinos Georgiadis 181
What Should Governments Do? Thomas A. Kochan 198
Conclusion: What Workers Say in the Anglo-American World Peter Boxall PeterHaynes Richard B. Freeman 206
References 221
Contributors 237
Index 241
What People are Saying About This
What Workers Say is a very useful addition to the literature. In summarizing research across the Anglo-American world it is invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers.
A century ago, concerns about worker voice led to the recognition of trade unions as institutions that give workers voice. Globalization and other changes in the socioeconomic environment have created new obstacles on the road to giving workers voice in their workplaces. With its innovative use of data to address issues that are of great relevance and importance to the future of prosperous and sustainable societies, What Workers Say opens up many new fronts for thinking about the practice and promise of realizing worker voice.