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Title

What workers say : employee voice in the Anglo-American workplace / edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall, and Peter Haynes.

Publication

Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Freeman, Richard B. (Richard Barry), 1943-
• Boxall, Peter F.
• Haynes, Peter, 1955-

Description

viii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Comparative industrial relations
• Management > Employee participation
• Communication in industrial relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the Anglo-American economies and employee voice / Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes -- 1. Can the United States clear the market for representation and participation? / Richard B. Freeman -- 2. Say what? : employee voice in Canada / Michele Campolieti, Rafael Gomez and Morley Gunderson -- 3. What voice do British workers want? / Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman -- 4. Employee voice in the Irish workplace : status and prospect / John Geary -- 5. Australian workers : finding their voice? / Julian Teicher, Peter Holland, Amanda Pyman and Brian Cooper -- 6. Employee voice and voicelessness in New Zealand / Peter Boxall, Peter Haynes and Keith Macky -- 7. Employee voice in the Anglo-American world : what does it mean for unions? / David Peetz and Ann Frost -- 8. Why should employers bother with worker voice? / John Purcell and Konstantinos Georgiadis -- 9. What should governments do? / Thomas A. Kochan -- Conclusion : what workers say in the Anglo-American world / Peter Boxall, Peter Haynes and Richard B. Freeman.

ISBN

• 9780801444456 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0801444454 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780801472817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0801472814 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003486

OCLC

• OCM82367713
• 82367713
• SCSB-5927628

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries