Industrial and Labour Market Policy and

Important themes in the content and practice of industrial and labor market policy are addressed in this book. Topics addressed include: the problems facing the manufacturing sector; skills, education and training; human resource management strategies; minimum wages and the impact of privatization and deregulation. Each of these discussions will be backed up with the findings of original research carried out by the authors. Of great interest to students and academics involved with labor economics, industrial economics and industrial relations, this comprehensive new study will also prove useful reading for those involved with policy making.

List of figures

ix

List of tables

xi

Notes on contributors

xiii

Editors' preface

xvii

1 Introduction: across the policy divide

1

(8)

DAN COFFEY AND CAROLE THORNLEY

2 Industrial policy and economic development

9

(20)

CHRISTINE OUGHTON

3 Markets, competition, co-operation and innovation

29

(16)

MICHAEL KITSON, JONATHAN MICHLE AND MAURA SHEEHAN

4 Best practice manufacture as industrial policy: lean production, competitiveness and monopoly capitalism

45

(17)

DAN COFFEY

5 Industrial policy, transnational corporations and the problem of 'hollowing out' in Japan

62

(21)

KEITH COWLING AND PHILIP R. TOMLINSON

6 Labour market policy and inequality in the UK

83

(26)

CAROLE THORNLEY

7 The problem of British education policy as economic policy

109

(21)

FRANCIS GREEN

8 HRM, commitment, insecurity and low pay: some indicative evidence from the European banking sector

130

(16)

STEVE JEFFERYS, CAROLE THORNLEY AND SYLVIE CONTREPOIS

9 Equal opportunities and productive efficiency in the workplace: fairness, employee participation and the firm

146

(12)

VIRGINIE PEROTIN AND ANDREW ROBINSON

10 Reassessing regulation: productivity, wage costs and trade union 'power' in the dock

158

(13)

DAN COFFEY

11 The Private Finance Initiative: a critical assessment

171

(20)

MALCOLM SAWYER

Index

191

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Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance: Issues and Perspectives

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