TY - BOOK T1 - Labour Relations in the Global Fast-Food Industry Y1 - 2002 A1 - Royle, T. A1 - Towers, B. KW - employment practices KW - fast-food industry KW - industrial relations KW - labor relations KW - social justice KW - trade union exclusion KW - workers’ rights AB -

The fast-food industry is one of the few industries that can be described as truly global, not least in terms of employment, which is estimated at around ten million people worldwide. This edited volume is the first of its kind, providing an analysis of labour relations in this significant industry focusing on multinational corporations and large national companies in ten countries: the USA, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Russia.

The extent to which multinational enterprises impose or adapt their employment practices in differing national industrial relations systems is analysed, Results reveal that the global fast-food industry is typified by trade union exclusion, high labour turnover, unskilled work, paternalistic management regimes and work organization that allows little scope for developing workers' participation in decision-making, let alone advocating widely accepted concepts of social justice and workers' rights. (publisher's statement)

PB - Routledge CY - London L2 - eng ER -