Gambling partners? the risky outcomes of workplace partnerships

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-652

  Jenkins, Jean ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management; Outcomes; Partnership; Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249017829     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017007082874     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Ackers, P., Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A. and Dundon, T. (2005) ' Partnership and Voice, with or without Trade Unions: Changing UK Management Approaches to Organisational Participation ', in M. Stuart and M. Martnez Lucio (eds) Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, pp. 23 - 45. Abingdon: Routledge.
2. Batstone, E., Boraston, I. and Frenkel, S. (1977) Shop Stewards in Action: The Organization of Workplace Conflict and Accommodation. Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Brown, W., Deakin, S., Hudson, M., Pratten, C. and Ryan, P. (1999) The Individualisation of Employment Contracts in Britain. London: Department of Trade and Industry. [DTI Employment Relations Research Series, 4]
4. Business Week (2007) ' Alcoa's Smart Start to Earnings Season ', Stocks in the News, 9 January 2007.
5. Danford, A., Richardson, M., Stewart, P., Tailby, S. and Upchurch, M. (2004) ' High Performance Work Systems and Workplace Partnership: A Case Study of Aerospace Workers', New Technology Work and Employment 19 (1). 14 - 29.
6. Danford, A., Richardson, M., Stewart, P. and Tailby, S. (2005) ' Workplace Partnership and Employee Voice in the UK: Comparative Case Studies of Union Strategy and Worker Experience ', Economic and Industrial Democracy 26 (4). 593 - 620.
7. Deakin, S., Hobbs, R., Konzelmann, S.J. and Wilkinson, F. (2005) ' Working Corporations: Corporate Governance and Innovation in Labour-Management Partnerships in Britain ', in M. Stuart and M. Martnez Lucio (eds) Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, pp. 63 - 82. Abingdon: Routledge.
8. Delbridge, R. (1998) Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing: The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the 'Japanese' Model. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9. Edwards, P., Belanger, J. and Wright, M. (2002) ' The Social Relations of Productivity: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Aluminium Smelters ', Relations Industrielles 57 (2). 309 - 27.
10. Froud, J., Sukhdev, J., Leaver, A. and Williams, K. (2006) Financialization and Strategy: Narrative and Numbers. Abingdon: Routledge.
11. Greene, A., Black, J. and Ackers, P. (2000) ' The Union Makes Us Strong? A Study of the Dynamics of Workplace Union Leadership at Two UK Manufacturing Plants ', British Journal of Industrial Relations: 38 (1). 75 - 94.
12. Guest, D.E. and Peccei, R. (2001) ' Partnership at Work: Mutuality and the Balance of Advantage ', British Journal of Industrial Relations 39 (2). 207 - 37.
13. Katz, H.C. and Sabel, C.F. (1985) ' Industrial Relations and Industrial Adjustment in the Car Industry ', Industrial Relations 24 (3). 295 - 315.
14. Kelly, J. (2000) ' The Limits and Contradictions of Social Partnership ', Communist Review 33 (Autumn). 3 - 7.
15. Kelly, J. (2005) ' Social Partnership Agreements in Britain ', in M. Stuart and M. Martnez Lucio (eds) Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, pp. 188 - 209. Abingdon: Routledge.
16. Knell, J. (1999) Partnership at Work. London: DTI/Industrial Society. [Employment Relations Research Series, 7]
17. Lillie, N. and Martnez Lucio, M. (2004) ' International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Union Approaches ', in C. Frege and J. Kelly (eds) Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy, pp. 159 - 80. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
18. Martnez Lucio, M. and Stuart, M. (2004) ' Swimming Against the Tide: Social Partnership, Mutual Gains and the Revival of "Tired" HRM ', International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 (2). 410 - 24.
19. Martnez Lucio, M. and Stuart, M. (2005) '" Partnership" and New Industrial Relations in a Risk Society: An Age of Shotgun Weddings and Marriages of Convenience? ', Work, Employment and Society 19 (4). 797 - 817.
20. Millward, N., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. (2000) All Change at Work? British Employment Relations 1980-1998, as Portrayed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Series. London: Routledge.
21. Munday, M. (2003) ' Wales Today: Paper to the 11th Welsh Economy Research Unit Conference ', Welsh Economic Review 15 (2). 5 - 6.
22. Nolan, P. (2004) ' Shaping the Future: The Political Economy of Work and Employment ', Industrial Relations Journal 35 (5). 378 - 87.
23. Oxenbridge, S. and Brown, W. (2002) ' The Two Faces of Partnership? An Assessment of Partnership and Co-operative Employer/Trade Union Relationships ', Employee Relations 24 (3). 262 - 76.
24. Oxenbridge, S. and Brown, W. (2004) ' Achieving a New Equilibrium? The Stability of Cooperative Employer-Union Relationships ', Industrial Relations Journal 35 (5). 388 - 402.
25. Oxenbridge, S. and Brown, W. (2005) ' Developing Partnership Relationships: A Case of Leveraging Power ', in M. Stuart And M. Martnez Lucio (eds) Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, pp. 83 - 100. Abingdon: Routledge.
26. Sallaz, J.J. (2004) ' Manufacturing Concessions: Attritionary Outsourcing at General Motors' Lordstown USA Assembly Plant ', Work, Employment and Society 18 (4). 687 - 708.
27. Stuart, M. and Martnez Lucio, M. (2005) ' Trade Union Representatives' Attitudes and Experiences of the Principles and Practices of Partnership ', in Stuart, M. and Martnez Lucio, M. (eds) Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, pp. 101 - 19. Abingdon, Routledge.
28. Suff, R. and Williams, S. (2004) ' The Myth of Mutuality? Employee Perceptions of Partnership at Borg Warner ', Employee Relations 26 (1). 30 - 43.
29. Tailby, S., Richardson, M., Stewart, P., Danford, A. and Upchurch, M. (2004) ' Partnership at Work and Worker Participation: An NHS Case Study ', Industrial Relations Journal 33 (5) 403 - 18.
30. Terry, M. (2003) ' Can "Partnership" Reverse the Decline of British Trade Unions? ', Work, Employment and Society 17 (3). 459 - 72.
31. Thompson, P. (2003) ' Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain ', Work, Employment and Society 17 (2). 359 - 78.
32. TUC (Trades Union Congress) (2002) Partnership Works. London: TUC.
33. Upchurch, M. and Danford, A. (2001) ' Industrial Restructuring, "Globalisation", and the Trade Union Response: A Study of MSF in the South West of England ', New Technology, Work and Employment 16 (2). 100 - 17.
34. Walsh, J. (2000) ' New Brooms Threaten to Sweep Away Partnership ', People Management 3 February: 15.
35. Walton, R.E. and McKersie, R.B. (1965) A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.