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Analysts are generally agreed: dramatic changes are unfolding in the character of work, managerial authority, and the employment relationship. However, there is little agreement as to precisely how such changes are reshaping people's working lives,…

The two studies on employer’s association in this research paper includes The functions and organization of employers' associations in selected industries by V.G. Munns and A survey of employers' association officials by W.E.J McCarthy.

The two studies in industrial relations in this research paper collection includes The Position of Women in Industry by Nancy Smear and Changing Wage Payment Systems by Robert B. McKersie.

The History of the LGPSU is not only the history of the trade union. It is also a history of the public service sector in independent Ireland and its often-difficult relationship with the estate. Born in the war of independence, the local government…

Sex Worker Union Organising is the first study of the emerging phenomenon of sex workers- prostitutes, exotic dancers such as lap dancers, porn models and actresses, and sex chatline workers – asserting that their economic activities are work and…

Britain’s most contentious industrial topic centers on the growing power and influence of shop stewards. This important and impartial study of their history and evaluation, and the problems now facing unions and management, is as necessary to…

Analysis, based on a literature survey, of the impact of social stratification on patterns of trade unionization, particularly among nonmanual workers, in the UK and other western countries - covers the relationship between social class and trade…

This is the third series of monographs prepared and published by the International Labour Office on industrial relations in selected undertakings. The primary aim of the office in making these studies was not to secure international comparitability,…

Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long-term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads, and…

A work from former UCC president Alfred O’ Rahilly, a political writer and supported of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. O’Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on conciliatory…

Michael Goldfield challenges standard explanations for union decline, arguing that the major causes are to be found in the changing relations between classes. Goldfield combines innovative use of National Labor Relations Board certification election…

What are the key features of Unionized Labour Markets? This important book analyses the nature of contracts between unions and management, and evaluates the result for wages, employment, and productivity. It synthesizes the major strands of research…

Britain's trade unions are facing formidable problems as they respond to the challenge of rapid economic and industrial change. But they remain adaptable enough to survive and grow into the twenty-first century. This is the main conclusion of this…

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…

At a time of severe crisis in the Labour Movement, there has never been a greater need for rethinking the aims and methods of socialism. Ken Coates and Tony Topham, who have been tireless in their arguments within the Labour Movement about its…