Employment Relations in a Changing Society

DANIEL ALBARRACAiN Researcher, CIREM Foundation, Madrid, Spain CHRIS FORDE Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK JEAN GARDINER Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds and Deputy Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, UK IAN GREENWOOD Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK IAN KIRKPATRICK Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour, Leeds University Business School, UK JOSE M. LA SIERRA ESTEBAN Lecturer in Applied Economy, Zaragoza University, Spain ROBERT MACKENZIE Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Leeds University Business School, UK GERARDO MEIL LANDWERLIN Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain CARLOS PRIETO Professor of Sociology of Labour Relations, School of Political Science and Sociology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain PAUL STEWART Professor of Sociology of Work and Employment, ESRU, Bristol Business School, UK MARK STUART Head of Work and Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK

This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that there is a new stable, decentralized regime of employment that is post-bureaucratic and flexible.This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that there is a new stable, decentralized regime of employment that is post-bureaucratic and flexible.