Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective

The construction industry faces multiple challenges, such as informal and casual working practices, abusive use of migrant labor, gendered male employment, and neglect of health and safety. This book brings an international lens to address these challenges, looking at ways to manage safe and productive employment practices and effective employment relations within client demands for timely and cost-effective project completions. It acknowledges the difficulties encountered by workers in parts of the developing world and seeks to improve awareness of worst hazards and current practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 278 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The demand for a skilled, motivated, and effective workforce is essential to the development of the built environment worldwide. The industry, its managers, and its workforce face numerous challenges, including a tendency towards informal and casual working practices, the abusive use of migrant labor, gendered male employment, and a neglect of health and safety essentials. This book brings an international perspective to address these challenges, focusing on the diverse ways in which solutions have been found to manage safe and productive employment practices and effective employment relations within the framework of client demands for timely and cost-effective project completions.

While context, history, and contractual frameworks may militate against a careful attention to human resource issues, it makes them even more deserving of attention. Work and Labor Relations in Construction aims to share understanding of best practices in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognizing that effective work organization and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another. It acknowledges the real difficulties encountered by workers in parts of the developing world and the quest for improvement and awareness of some of the worst hazards and current practices.

This book is both critical and analytical in approach and seeks to alert readers to the need for change. Aimed at addressing practical issues within the construction industry from a theoretical and empirical standpoint, it will be of value to those interested in the built environment, employment relations, and human resource management.

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 236 x 202 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138364783