Work and Employment in a Globalized Era

Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization this text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia and New Zealand as well as from China Japan Malaysia and Singapore to illuminate our understanding of what is actually happening to organizations workforces employee groupings and individual employees as a result of globalization and the intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.