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Researching the World of Work : Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Strauss, George, 1923-, Whitfield, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. Research methods in industrial relations / George Strauss and Keith Whitfield
  • ch. 2. What is distinctive about industrial relations research / Thomas A. Kochan
  • ch. 3. Qualitative methods: technique or size / Richard Whipp
  • ch. 4. Quantitative methods: it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it / Keith Whitfield
  • ch. 5. Experimental methods / Jan Bruins
  • ch. 6. Role and challenge of case study design in industrial relations research / Jim Kitay and Ron Callus
  • ch. 7. In the eye of the beholder: ethnography in the study of work / Raymond A. Friedman and Darren C. McDaniel
  • ch. 8. Participatory action research: getting involved and creating surprises at the workplace / William Foote Whyte
  • ch. 9. Large-scale national surveys for mapping, monitoring, and theory development / Neil Millward, Paul Marginson, and Ron Callus
  • ch. 10. Employee attitude surveys / Jean Hartley and Julian Barling
  • ch. 11. Comparative international industrial relations / George Strauss
  • ch. 12. Using workplace surveys for comparative research / Keith Whitfield, Rick Delbridge, and William Brown
  • ch. 13. Digging up the past: historical methods in industrial relations research / Greg Patmore
  • ch. 14. Legal methods: asking new questions about law and the world of work / Suzanne Hammond and Paul Ronfeldt
  • ch. 15. Sociological approaches to employment research / Daniel B. Cornfield and Melinda D. Kane
  • ch. 16. Industrial relations research and the American policy-making process / Jay S. Siegel
  • ch. 17. Funders and research: the vulnerability of the subject / William Brown
  • ch. 18. Retrospect and prospect / Keith Whitfield and George Strauss.