Notes on Methodology and the Fieldwork

Maurizio Atzeni

A chapter in Workplace Conflict, 2010, pp 141-144 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The research on which this book is based started in October 2000 as a comparison of labour relations in two factories owned by the same multinational, FIAT, in Brazil and Argentina. The original idea was to look at the forms and methods of adaptation to new working practices used by trade unions and workers of the same company but within different industrial relations environments. The research seemed initially feasible as access to the plants for interviews and data collection was guaranteed by previously established relations with executives of the same enterprise. But as often happens to those who investigate sensitive business areas, the economic crisis of the company produced, together with worker redundancies and plant closures, a management decision to suspend any cooperation with researchers and, in my case, made it impossible to enter into the factories and develop the empirical part of the research.

Keywords: Trade Union; Human Resource Management; Labour Relation; Industrial Relation; Factory Occupation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230281622_7

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