Comparative Workplace Employment Relations An Analysis of Practice i

This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations P

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OMPARATIVE WORKPLACE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France

Comparative Workplace Employment Relations

Thomas Amossé • Alex Bryson • John Forth • Héloïse Petit Editors

Comparative Workplace Employment Relations An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France

Editors Thomas Amossé Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi Noisy-le-Grand, Cédex, France John Forth National Institute of Economic and Social Research London, United Kingdom

Alex Bryson UCL Institute of Education London, United Kingdom Héloïse Petit CLERSE, Université Lille 1 Lille, France

ISBN 978-1-137-57418-3 ISBN 978-1-137-57419-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57419-0

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Acknowledgements

There are many individuals and institutions who have contributed— either knowingly or otherwise—to the writing of this volume. The book could not have been written if it were not for their hard work, encouragement, and inspiration. First and foremost, we must acknowledge the considerable efforts of those who have overseen, designed, and managed the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d’Entreprise (REPONSE) surveys through their long history. In particular, we acknowledge the work of those directly involved in the 2004/2005 and 2011 surveys on which our analysis is primarily based. Looking further back in the series, we also gratefully acknowledge the original work of Neil Millward and Thomas Coutrot who were, in many respects, the fathers of the two surveys on either side of the Ch