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In most of the EU fifteen Member States Sectoral collective bargaining is an import process, if not the principal means of regulating relations between employers and employees. Yet the sectoral level of social dialogue has long been neglected at the…

In some western eastern countries trade unions and employers' organizations for maintaining order and efficiency in the labour market as a matter of course. In others such a role is seen as an unacceptable interference with either the free market, or…

Monograph on the political aspects of labour relations in the UK - discusses the main political issues and objectives affecting the government, employers organizations, trade unions and other interest groups, includes historical developments,…

Monograph analysing government policy shifts over two decades (1956 to 1975) in the UK, seen within the context of labour relations activity and set within the general terms of social conflict - presents a theoretical approach and a historical…

Based on 1985 records, the primary discussions regarding industrial relations reform, particularly in the Irish context within the Department of Labour, focused on reforming the institutional framework for resolving disputes and updating employment…

A report by the Limerick Harbour Commissioners by Con Murphy in relation to the current stevedoring system with proposals of reorganisation, severance proposals, financial proposals, and a draft agreement on the working conditions.

Labor revitalization is among the first works to examine variations among the nations in the wide array of initiatives labor unions and labor movements are taking to strengthen themselves and recruit new members. Moving beyond previous research on…

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…

This book is both a survey and an argument. It is a survey of the Interplay of industrial relations and politics in Britain since 1951; but it is also an argument about the crisis of labour which has lain at the heart of that interplay throughout.…

The curbing of trade union power has been widely regarded as the major achievement of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, yet students of industrial relations have generally argued that little has changed on the shop floor.

David Marsh’s new…

A discussion document on the Unfair Dismissals act. 1977, Employment Equality, and payment of Wages act. 1979. Includes a forward from the then Minister of Labour.

Involvement, Participation and Partnership: A Review of the Debate and Some Reflections on the Irish Context, was delivered by Prof. Paddy Gunnigle of the University of Limerick on November 22, 1999. It focused on employee participation and…

During the 1980s, British trade unionism confronted its greatest challenge, and suffered its greatest reverses, since the inter-war period. After a decade of rapid growth, the unions experienced a steep decline in membership, and virtual…

A Question of Balance is a lucid and readable rendering of a complex and vexed issue, namely industrial relations. Bringing together articles written over a period of eight years, it offers an objective and unbiased commentary, unencumbered by the…

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organized around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.