OBJECTIVE To investigate relations between labour market income inequality and mortality in North American metropolitan areas. METHODS An ecological cross sectional study of relations between income inequality and working age (25-64 years) mortality in 53 Canadian (1991) and 282 US (1990) metropolitan areas using four measures of income inequality. Two labour market income concepts were used:...

In-house outsourcing, where activities are maintained under the same roof, is a major organizational innovation. This paper conducts in-depth analysis of ‘in-house’ outsourcing strategies at Fiat Auto in Italy. It grasps the complex nature of the implications of such a strategy for the organisation of production and social and industrial relations by providing a rich material for such analysis....

Good Labour Relations in Local Government is a legislative imperative that municipalities have to nurture and sustain at all costs. Failure to maintain good labour relations could have a direct impact on the levels and quality of service delivery. If municipal employees embark on endless strikes, this would obviously translate into no delivery of basic services to the communities that so desper...

Over the past 30 years, labour relations, and, indeed, the entirety of workingclass politics in China, have been dramatically altered by economic reforms. In this review, we focus on the two key processes of commodification and casualization and their implications for workers. On the one hand, these processes have resulted in the destruction of the old social contract and the emergence of marke...