I need an essay (2000 ~ 2500 words) written before the 28th of May 2015 (Wednesday). Details as follows:
Theme/Title: Discuss the introduction and impact of the National Minimum Wage in Britain. To what extent did its introduction point to a major shift in the British model of employment relations?
Suggested Readings:
Casebourne, J. et al (2006) Employment Rights at Work - Survey of Employees 2005, London: Dept of Trade and Industry, Employment Relations Research Series 51.
Crouch, C (2010) ‘British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility’, in Colling, T and Terry, M (eds.) (2010) Industrial Relations Theory and Practice, 3rd edition, Chichester: Wiley, 29 – 53.
Crouch, C (1999) ‘Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Policy: New Life in an Old Connection’, in Social Policy and Administration 33(4): 437-57.
*Dickens, L. and Hall, M. (2010) ‘The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations’, in Colling, T and Terry, M (eds) Industrial Relations, 3rd edition, Chichester: Wiley.
*Flanders, A. (1974) ‘The Tradition of Voluntarism’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 12(3): 352–70.
Frege, C.M. and Kelly, J. (eds) (2013) Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy, Abingdon: Routledge, Chap 3 (Individual employee rights).
Gosling, A. and Lemieux, T. (2004) ‘Labor Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States’, in Card, D., Blundell, R. and Freeman, R. (eds) Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms 1980 – 2000, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp. 275 – 312.
Heyes, J. and Nolan, P. (2010) ‘State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis’, in T. Colling and M. Terry (eds.) Industrial relations: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition, Chichester: Wiley.
Hyman, R. (2008) ‘The State in Industrial Relations’, in P. Blyton et al (eds) The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations, London: Sage.
*Hyman, R (2010) ‘British industrial relations: the European dimension’ In: Colling, Trevor and Terry, Mike, (eds.) Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 54-80.
Lloyd, C., Mason, G. and Mayhew, K. (eds.) (2008) Low-Wage Work in the United Kingdom, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
*Low Pay Commission (2014) National Minimum Wage: Report 2014, London: HMSO, Executive Summary, [login to view URL]
*Metcalf, D. (2008) 'Why has the British National Minimum Wage had Little or No Impact on Employment?', Journal of. Industrial Relations 50: 489-512.
Salamon, M (2003) ‘The State’, in Hollinshead, G., Nicholls, P. and Tailby, S. (2003) Employee Relations, 2nd edition, London: FT Prentice Hall, 175 – 204.
*Undy, R. (1999) ‘The New Labour Industrial Relations Settlement: The Third Way’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 37(2).
Williams, S (2014) Introducing Employment Relations: A Critical Approach, 3Rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press., chapter 3 (69 – 102).