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The Collapse of Communism and the ensuing process of reforming in central eastern Europe have presented a unique laboratory for researchers interested in social change and institutional building. Eastern Germany provides a particularly interesting…

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…

How do we understand ‘social partnership’? How does partnership vary across Europe and beyond? What are the implications of partnership for union renewal? This book addresses these questions by Exploring the relationship between union renewal and…

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,…

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…

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…

A rewritten and completely updated version of The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain, this book provides a thorough and comprehensive description of British Industrial relations. It examines shop steward organization, the complex…

The countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture has been established by the Irish Association for Industrial relations with the support of the Department of Labour. Countess Markievicz was the first Minister for Labour for the newly independent Irish State.…

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.…

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…

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…

This text covers the evolving industrial relations law and its usage in Ireland. It comments on the origin of trade unions and the significance that has been had by the British system, as well as bridging the constitution and industrial relations in…

Industrial relations law and practice in the republic of Ireland is a reflection of the haphazard way in which the system evolved. It is the product of several acts of expediency rather than rational planning with a coherent philosophy. One of the…