Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2019

Abstract

The employment relationship is the connection between employees and employers through which people sell their labor. This might consist of an immigrant day laborer paid by the bushel to pick fruit in the hot sun, a tech industry freelancer completing episodic gigs without ever meeting a boss, a salaried manager who has been working in an air-conditioned office for the same company for 40 years, or innumerable other situations. Irrespective of situation, all employees and employers have fundamental interests they pursue through the employment relationship, all forms of this relationship are mediated by labor markets and states, and each instance of this relationship is governed by some form of a contract ranging from explicit union contracts and civil service rules to implicit expectations and understandings. These common building blocks of the employment relationship—employees, employers, states, markets, and contracts—are the first topic of this chapter.

Keywords

Employers, labor contracts, personnel management

Discipline

Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management

Editor

A. Wilkinson, et al.

First Page

41

Last Page

64

ISBN

9781526435026

Identifier

10.4135/9781529714852.n4

Edition

2nd ed

Publisher

SAGE

City or Country

Los Angeles

Embargo Period

12-26-2018

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781526435026

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