This book argues that employers’ organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. Adaptation has been prompted by changing economic and social contexts, including state interventions and union activities. Contexts vary over time, across countries and world regions. The purpose of the book is to explore these variations and their impacts on employer organization.
The book covers the following themes across four book sections: theoretical perspectives on employer collective action; employers’ organizations in different types of capitalism; different types of employers’ organizations; and international and comparative employer interest representation. Theoretical explorations examining employer power, political preferences, meta-organizing, and ideological foundations are complemented by studies of employers’ organization in China, Denmark, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Canada, and the UK. Different types such as regional and international employers’ organizations are also examined. The book is one of the few edited volumes to examine employer collective action within work and employment, and is the first since 1984 to consider western and non-western contexts.
The book will be of interest to employment relations and sociology of work researchers, scholars, advanced students, and practitioners as it brings new perspectives to an understudied actor in employment relations: employers’ organizations.
This book argues that employers’ organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices. It also explores these variations and their impacts on employer organizations.
1. The Adaptation and Resilience of Employers Organizations Leon
Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Employer
Collective Action
2. Employers Organizations: Sources of Power and Limits to
Power Glenn Morgan
3. Meta-organizing Employers: From Beneficial Constraints
to Collective Self-discipline? Markus Helfen
4. Facilitating Labour Shedding
or Enhancing Labour Supply? An Analysis of German Employer Organizations
Views on Work Incentive Effects of Social Programmes Thomas Paster
5. Culture
and Coordinated Industrial Relations Cathie Jo Martin Part II Employers
Organizations in Different Types of Capitalism
6. Employers Organizations in
China: Transmission Belt between Members and State Judith Shuqin Zhu
7.
Keeping the State out through Legitimacy: Employers Organizations in Denmark
Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Steen E. Navrbjerg
8. Employers Associations in
Australia Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite
9. German Employers
Associations and their Strategy of Deliberate Neglect Martin Behrens Part III
Different Types of Employers Organizations
10. Countervailing Power and the
Role of State Threats: The Case of Pro-religious Employers Organizations in
Turkey Lisa Ahsen Sezer
11. Representing the Interests of Quebec Employers:
The Contribution of Regional Employers Organizations Mélanie Laroche
12.
Employers Organizations and the Territorial Divergence of Employment
Relations in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Leon Gooberman and Marco
Hauptmeier Part IV International and Comparative Employer Interest
Representation
13. Comparing Higher Education Employer Organization Geoffrey
White and Laurence Hopkins
14. International Employers Organizations and
Public Policy beyond National Boundaries Kevin Farnsworth and Cangheng Liu
15. Beyond Social Dialogue: The Varied Activities of European Employers
Organizations Mona Aranea, Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier
Leon Gooberman is a Lecturer in Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK.
Marco Hauptmeier is a Professor of International Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK.
