TY - BOOK T1 - Corporate Social Responsibility And Trade Unions: Perspectives From Europe Y1 - 2015 A1 - Preuss, Lutz A1 - Michael Gold A1 - Chris Rees KW - corporate social responsibility KW - CSR KW - employment relations KW - Europe KW - industrial relations KW - labor unions AB -

Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such as NGOs and local communities. Curiously, however, commentators on CSR rarely discuss the role of trade unions, while commentators on employment relations seldom engage with CSR. This situation is all the more remarkable since unions are a critically important social actor and have traditionally played a prominent role in defending the interests of one key stakeholder in the company, the employee.Written by dedicated experts in their field, this book addresses a key gap in the literature on both CSR and employment relations, namely trade union policies towards CSR, as well as union engagement with particular CSR initiatives and the challenges they face in doing so. The research covers eleven European countries which, when taken together, constitute a representative sample of industrial relations structures across the continent.

PB - Routledge CY - New York L2 - eng ER -