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Researching the world of work : strategies and methods in studying industrial relations
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- Creator
- edited by Keith Whitfield and George Strauss
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Ithaca : ILR Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- x, 330 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801432901, 1501717715, 9780801432903, 0801485495, 9780801485497, 9781501717710
- OCLC
- ocm38024147, on1037272914
- Articles by contributors recruited by the Research Methods Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association (IITA).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index.
- 1. Research Methods in Industrial Relations / George Strauss and Keith Whitfield -- 2. What Is Distinctive about Industrial Relations Research? / Thomas A. Kochan -- 3. Qualitative Methods: Technique or Size? / Richard Whipp -- 4. Quantitative Methods: It's Not What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It / Keith Whitfield -- 5. Experimental Methods / Jan Bruins -- 6. The Role and Challenge of Case Study Design in Industrial Relations Research / Jim Kitay and Ron Callus -- 7. In the Eye of the Beholder: Ethnography in the Study of Work / Raymond A. Friedman and Darren C. McDaniel -- 8. Participatory Action Research: Getting Involved and Creating Surprises at the Workplace / William Foote Whyte -- 9. Large-Scale National Surveys for Mapping, Monitoring, and Theory Development / Neil Millward, Paul Marginson and Ron Callus -- 10. Employee Attitude Surveys / Jean Hartley and Julian Barling -- 11. Comparative International Industrial Relations / George Strauss -- 12. Using Workplace Surveys for Comparative Research / Keith Whitfield, Rick Delbridge and William Brown -- 13. Digging Up the Past: Historical Methods in Industrial Relations Research / Greg Patmore -- 14. Legal Methods: Asking New Questions about Law and the World of Work / Suzanne Hammond and Paul Ronfeldt -- 15. Sociological Approaches to Employment Research / Daniel B. Cornfield and Melinda D. Kane -- 16. Industrial Relations Research and the American Policy-Making Process / Jay S. Siegel -- 17. Funders and Research: The Vulnerability of the Subject / William Brown -- 18. Retrospect and Prospect / Keith Whitfield and George Strauss