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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…

Introductory textbook on labour relations in the UK - discusses the development and structure of trade unions, the roles of industrial enterprises, industrial management and employers' organizations, and treats industrial conflicts, strikes and…

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,…

This volume brings together a selection of contributions from expert academics and leading figures of the union itself, wherein the achievements and failures of UNISON since its creation in 1993, and the challenges it will face in the future, are…

Drawing on a wealth of research data, this book highlights probable developments in Britain’s system of industrial relations into in the 1990s. It also provides a basis for further and detailed analysis and debate of issues central to the…

Peillon’s analysis of "Strategies of State Mobilization in Irish Industrial Relations" describes how the Irish state actively organizes and manages popular energy—specifically workers and unions—to align with national industrial development…

Increasing diversity in the workforce has several sources: (a) the changing demographics of the structure of the U.S (b) the increased importance of globalization to profits and long-term survival in many companies, and (c) changes in the structure…

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.

A lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 6th December 1826 by Nassau William Senior regarding Political Economy.

Summary of a report prepared by the Telesis Consultancy Group.

All is change at work? Is the authorities guide to how British employers and managers, employers and managers, unions and employees changed their organization and behavior from the time of the first thatcher administration to the early years of the…

OECD Industrial Relations Program. Special studies.

OECD Industrial Relations Program. Special studies relating to each country mentioned.

This book is first to concentrate on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining strikes, and dispute resolution. It offers not only an outline of the major…

Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations is based on data obtained in observational research amongst managers, shop stewards and workers, examines the informal processes by which accommodations are or are not, reached by managers and workers.