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

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 Enquete Relations Professionnelles et Negociations d’Entreprise (REPONSE). These extensive linked employer-employee surveys provide nationally-representative data on private sector employment relations in all but the smallest workplaces, and offer a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the features of workplace employment relations under two very different employment regimes.Comparative Workplace Employment Relations presents new insights from this unique analysis to inform our general understanding of models of employment relations and labour markets. An insightful read for all academics and students of employment, the findings also have implications for practitioners and policy-makers keen to identify and promote “best practice”.

Thomas Amosse is a Public Statistician and researcher in sociology at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, France. His field of research covers work and employment (including industrial relations, working conditions, occupation health and safety, and labour mobility), social classes’ analysis and the history of quantification.

Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL's Institute of Education, UK. During the writing of this book Alex was Head of the Employment Group at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, where he remains a Visiting Fellow.

John Forth is a Principal Research Fellow and a member of the Employment Group at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, UK. His research is focused on the quality of employment relations, pay and rewards, and economic performance.

Heloise Petit is Professor of Economics at the University Lille 1, France, and a Research Fellow at CLERSE and CEE (Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi). During the writing of this book she was at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (University Paris I). Her research interests focus on human resource management practices, labour and job flows