The emerging regime of civil regulation in work and employment relations

Williams, Stephen Wayne, Heery, Edmund James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3914-7635 and Abbott, Brian 2011. The emerging regime of civil regulation in work and employment relations. Human Relations 64 (7) , pp. 951-970. 10.1177/0018726710391687

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Abstract

This article examines the role of civil society organizations in generating civil regulation; that is, non-statutory norms, codes and standards of good practice that are intended to govern human resource management. It uses case study evidence of four charitable organizations in the United Kingdom to explore why they engage in civil regulation, the methods they use to secure business compliance and the forms of regulation they generate. There is an expanding literature on civil regulation, much of which focuses on the creation of voluntary codes that govern international business activity. Regulation of this type is often designated ‘private regulation’ and is understood as a functional alternative to regulation by the state. This article presents an opposing view, that civil regulation often develops within the nation-state and that it is not a form of private regulation but is bound up inextricably with the juridification of the employment relationship.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Civil regulation; Civil society organizations; Employment law; Equality and diversity; Private regulation; Regulatory capitalism
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0018-7267
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 09:40
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/21806

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