Browsing by Author "Hammer, Anita"
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Book reveiw: Matthias Ebenau, Ian Bruff and Christian May (eds); New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research: Critical and Global Perspectives
Hammer, Anita (Other)This is a book review of 'New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research: Critical and Global Perspectives' that opens comparative capitalism (CC) research to diverse and critical approaches that examine capitalist ... -
Book review: Jamie Cross, Dream zones: anticipating capitalism and development in India.
Hammer, Anita (Other)This a book review of ‘Dream Zones’, a refreshing book that captures the richness, brutality, contradictions, struggles and hopes that characterise contemporary India. It is an anthropological study of a Special Economic ... -
Book review: Jonathan Pattenden; Labour, state and society in rural India: A class-relational approach
Hammer, Anita (Other)This is a book review of 'Labour, state and society in India' which applies a class-relational approach to processes of development in the South Indian state of Karnataka on three interrelated areas: labour relations, ... -
Comparative Capitalism and Emerging Economies: Formal-Informal Economy Interlockages and Implications for Institutional Analysis
Hammer, Anita (Article)Research in comparative capitalism has seen an increasing interest in emerging economies and has made attempts at integrating the informal economy as a distinct and significant feature of the institutional configuration ... -
Embedding Saudi Capitalism at the Workplace
Hammer, Anita; Adham, Ayman (Book chapter)This chapter critiques political economy approaches for their focus on state-capital relations and the neglect of capital-labour relations in Southern capitalisms. It argues that they are insufficient to understand southern ... -
Employment relations in emerging economies: China and India
Hammer, Anita (Book chapter)This chapter presents and analyses the employment relations in China and India, assessed in their broader institutional context as well as in the nature of their integration into the global economy, from a comaparative ... -
HR practice in a fast food MNC: Exploring the low discretion, high commitment phenomenon
Butler, Peter; Hammer, Anita (Article)The UK’s widespread use of low-skill, low-paid employment has been well documented. It has been argued internal labour markets (ILMs) benefit such workers, affording them with opportunities for progression. Relatively ... -
HRM in China and India
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Institutional Analysis and Collective Mobilisation in a comparative assessment of two Cooperatives in India
Hammer, Anita (Book chapter)There is a strong case for studying cooperatives as alternative forms of work organisation. In their reach and economic significance cooperatives may offer an alternative organisational form for creating and maintaining ... -
A minutes a life-time in fast-food!: Managerial job quality in the quick service restaurant sector
Butler, Peter; Hammer, Anita (Article)The fast-food sector remains significantly under researched relative to its size and importance. Drawing on qualitative data this article explores the nature of managerial work in a market leading organisation. The research ... -
The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory
Hammer, Anita; Fishwick, Adam (Book)Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis ... -
Trade unions in a constrained environment: workers' voices from a New Industrial Zone in India
Hammer, Anita (Article)Challenges to unions worldwide are often framed in a strategic tension between enterprise unionism on one hand, and mobilisation for unions’ continued relevance under neoliberal global capitalism on the other. However, ... -
Understanding Arab Capitalisms: Patrimonialism, HRM and Work in Saudi Arabia
Hammer, Anita; Adham, Ayman (Article)This article critiques the scholarship on contemporary Arab societies for according a primacy to state-capital relations and neglecting the significance of capital-labour relations. Both, the comparative capitalism approach, ... -
Work and Employment in the Times of Automation and Artificial Intelligence: The Indian Case
Hammer, Anita; Karmakar, Suparna (Book chapter)This chapter is a study of how automation and AI may impact employment and skills, probing the role of institutions and actors, and its policy implications. To the purpose, it critically assesses the National Strategy on ...