The Evolution of the Modern Workplace

William Brown is the Master of Darwin College and Professor of Industrial Relations at Cambridge University. He was previously Director of the ESRC's Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He was a foundation member of the Low Pay Commission, which fixes the UK's National Minimum Wage. He is a member of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Panel of Arbitrators, and was an independent member of the ACAS Council. In 2002 he was awarded a CBE for services to employment relations. Alex Bryson is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was previously Research Director at the Policy Studies Institute where he has worked for nineteen years. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bryson's research focuses on industrial relations and labour economics. Recently he has been applying techniques common in the evaluation literature to problems in industrial relations. He has published his work in many books and journals, including the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Economica, Human Relations, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the Journal of Labor Research and the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. In 2005 he became an editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations. In 2005-2006 he was the Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School and the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2007-2008 he was a member of the Sector Skills Development Agency's Expert Panel. John Forth is a research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). He was involved in the design and primary analysis of the 1998 and 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS). Keith Whitfield is Professor of Human Resource Management and Economics and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies at Cardiff Business School and Director of Cardiff University's Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences. He was the ESRC's Academic Consultant and member of the Steering Group for the fifth Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), and is a founding member and on the Steering Group of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Methods and Data.