Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations by Damian Grimshaw
With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal important national differences in the functioning of minimum wage systems and their integration within national models of industrial relations.
There is no universal position on minimum wage policy followed by governments and social partners. Nor is it true that trade unions consistently support minimum wages and employers oppose them. The evidence in this book shows that interests and objectives change over time and differ across industries and countries. Investigating the pay bargaining strategies of unions and employers in cleaning, security, retail, and construction, this book’s industry case studies show how minimum wage policy interacts with collective bargaining to produce different types of pay equity effects. The analysis provides new findings of ‘ripple effects’ shaped by trade union strategies and identifies key components of an ‘egalitarian pay bargaining approach’ in social dialogue. The lessons for policy are to embrace an inter-disciplinary approach to minimum wage analysis, to be mindful of the interconnections with the changing national systems of industrial relations, and to interrogate the pay equity effects.
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Management, Labour Process and Software Development
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Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Trade Unions
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Social Sustainability and the Employee
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Union Recognition
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Workers, Power and Society
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Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis
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Partnership at Work
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The Politics of Industrial Relations
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The Reconstruction of Workplace Conflict Resolution
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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World
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Gender and Leadership in Unions
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The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe
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Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
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Men, Wage Work and Family
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Employment Relations in Non-Union Firms
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Board Level Employee Representation in Europe
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Trade Unions and Workplace Training
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The Gender Pay Gap and Social Partnership in Europe
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Diversity Management in the UK
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A New Theory of Industrial Relations
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Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Countries
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The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management
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Strategic Management of Diversity in the Workplace
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Employment Relations under Coalition Government
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Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond
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European Works Councils and Industrial Relations
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Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions
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Employee Ownership, Participation and Governance
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Unions and Employment in a Market Economy
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Employment Relations and Global Governance
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Power at Work
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Human Resource Management in the Hotel Industry
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Contemporary Employers’ Organizations
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A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany
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Employment Relations as Networks
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Workplace Attachments
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Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions
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Social Failures of EU Enlargement
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Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance
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Voice and Involvement at Work
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Trade Unions in the Course of European Integration
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138212657 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138212652 |
| Title | Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations |
| Author | Damian Grimshaw |
| Series | Routledge Research In Employment Relations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2016-08-26 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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