Product Description: Originally published in 1989, this book analyses the economic and political position of the small firm in the 1980s, and in particular the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy. Focusing on the printing and clothing industries, it examines the industrial relation practices in these two contrasting sectors and shows that apparent industrial relations harmony – for example, the lack of strikes – should be put down to the powerlessness of the workforce rather than to contentment...read more

Product Description: 'This Handbook represents a major milestone in the revitalization of scholarship on work and employment. It demonstrates that human geography can - indeed, must - be integrated into labor studies and industrial relations. Our present era may be characterized as global capitalism, but 'working space' is a social (and often highly contested construct) and people live and work in a particular place...read more

Product Description: Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour...read more

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Product Description: A critical analysis of the transformation of the Krakow regional economy in the context of both Poland's transitional national economy and the emerging global division of labor. This work focuses on foreign direct investment, privatization, the development of small firms and the importance of the role of organized labor...read more