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The Countess Markievics Memorial Lecture has been established by the Irish Association for Industrial Relations with the support of the Department of Labour. Countess Markievics was first Minister for Labour of the newly-independent Irish State. Th…

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…

Professor Allen’s Study of the changing composition and organization British in first appear in the early sixties and rapidly established itself with the students of Business and economics, and with general readers a reliable introduction to the…

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,…

The book in this series seek to provide a sound background in the fundamental theory, principles, and practice of some important aspects of commercial life in Ireland. They have been principally designed for business studies courses in school 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…

What are trade unions for? Why do trade unions movements vary so? Trade unionism in its various national forms has been the subject of increasing scrutiny during the second half of the twentieth century. Ross Martin’s book is concerned with two…

British Trade Unions once so influential, are now on the defensive. In the face of world economic recession and mass unemployment, their industrial power has been eroded, their membership has declined and industrial action has increasingly become…

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…

This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

The collapse of Britain Powerful Labor Movement in the Lat quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in the recent political history. How was the government of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the…

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…

Trade Unions in Renewal brings together a series of studies of union renewal from five different countries - the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. Although unions in the five countries have all been influenced by…