Researching the World of Work
Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2018
336 pages
978-1-5017-1771-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy has become more complex and varied. Research that once focused on the relationship between labor and management now involves a wider range of issues. This change has raised a number of key questions about how research should be done.The contributors represent four countries and a range of fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and industrial relations. They identify distinctive research strategies and suggest approaches that might be appropriate in the future. Among their concerns are the relative value of qualitative and quantitative methods, of using primary and secondary data, and of single versus multimethod techniques.
Reviews / Votes
This is a good book that should be a standard reference for all serious students of employment relations.... The issues are consistently addressed in a sensible and accessible manner. At times, the contributions go beyond the competent to the novel.... Given the neglect in our field over methodological questions, the collection deserves wide attention and it can only be hoped that it stimulates further debate.- Mark Bray (International Journal of Employment Studies) An intriguing look at the once prosperous but now uncertain field of industrial relations.... The volume is of value to IR practitioners... and would work well in any number of undergraduate and graduate-level courses.
- David B. Bills (Work and Occupations) Authored by 22 academically well qualified writers, this book presents material that is clear and cogent.... A useful overview and summary of methods and techniques for conducting industrial relations research.
(Choice) The book provides a useful resource for budding and experienced researchers. Researching the World of Work provides reassurance that industrial relations as a research discipline in neither stagnant not in decline.
(Labour and Industry) This book does considerably more than discuss research methods. It provides a very good snapshot of the field of IR as it is today, and in that sense constitutes a useful introduction to newcomers to the field, and a reminder for those who have been in the field for a long time that IR has evolved in different directions methodologically.... I think it should be required reading for IR students, both undergraduate and graduate.
- Sarosh Kuruvilla (Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
3 drawings, 1 table
3 drawings, 1 table
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-1771-0 (9781501717710)
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George Strauss | Keith Whitfield
Researching the World of Work
Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations
Book
05/1998
ILR Press
€143.61
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George Strauss | Keith Whitfield
Researching the World of Work
Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations
Book
05/1998
ILR Press
€49.52
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Keith Whitfield, Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, is the author, most recently, of The Market for Training. George Strauss, Emeritus Professor at the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director Emeritus of its Institute of Industrial Relations, is former president of the Industrial Relations Research Association.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I: SOME BASIC ISSUES
- 1 Research Methods in Industrial Relations
- 2 What Is Distinctive about Industrial Relations Research?
- PART II: STRATEGIES AND METHODS
- 3 Qualitative Methods: Technique or Size?
- 4 Quantitative Methods: It's Not What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It
- 5 Experimental Methods
- 6 The Role and Challenge of Case Study Design in Industrial Relations Research
- 7 In the Eye of the Beholder: Ethnography in the Study of Work
- 8 Participatory Action Research: Getting Involved and Creating Surprises at the Workplace
- 9 Large-Scale National Surveys for Mapping, Monitoring, and Theory Development
- 10 Employee Attitude Surveys
- PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
- 11 Comparative International Industrial Relations
- 12 Using Workplace Surveys for Comparative Research
- PART IV: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
- 13 Digging Up the Past: Historical Methods in Industrial Relations Research
- 14 Legal Methods: Asking New Questions about Law and the World of Work
- 15 Sociological Approaches to Employment Research
- PART V: PUBLIC POLICY
- 16 Industrial Relations Research and the American Policy-Making Process
- 17 Funders and Research: The Vulnerability of the Subject
- PART VI: CONCLUSION
- 18 Retrospect and Prospect
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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