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In recent decades there has been a considerable relative decline in the numbers of manual workers in production industries who have in the past formed the backbone of trade union organisation. In most western countries, ‘white-collar’ employees…

Part of a thesis entitled: The demand for workers' control in the railway, coalmining, and engineering industries, 1910-1922.

How workers learn how to do their jobs is central to an understanding of the changing nature of work in post-industrial society The roles of job or worker training has, however, been underdeveloped in sociological theories of work and the labor…

Mr. Wyckoff is now writing, from the notes he took during the second year of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his experiment while in the west, where he had even more instructive experience, nearly…

This comprehensive study traces the development of the trade union theory from its nineteenth century foundation to the more advanced conceptual models of today. Michael Poole surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches - the moral and ethical,…

What are the effects of Britain’s trade unions upon pay, productivity and jobs?

How has management attempted to increase flexibility at the workplace in the 1980s? Is this really a new phenomenon, and how should unions respond?

Is there a…

How did British trade unions become the most politically influential in the western world? Have they exercised an arbitrary power? How effective have legal constraints been on their activities? Will the 1990s see the marginalization of the unions, or…

This timely book takes as its starting point 11 monographs from trade union confederations in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as other sources. From a…

United We Stand is a highly original and fundamentally important history of how working people in Britain, from the eighteenth century to the present, have sought to improve their position in an often-harsh world.

Throughout the modern era trade…

Should money be automatically levied for the labour party from a union member unless he formally contracts out of it?

Should our exports be jeopardized because a couple of trade unions are pursuing a vendetta over demarcation or poaching? …

Recent years have seen the emergence of what is variously referred to as ‘the new working class’ or even ‘the new middle class’. This new class is largely centered on the ever-increasing number of technical, supervisory and lower managerial…