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Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Irish Institute of Purchasing & Materials Management meeting at Two-Mile-Inn Hotel, Ennis Road, Limerick

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Bray Chamber of Commerce

Statement by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Beech Hill College, Monaghan

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at CII

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, to CII North Dublin Regional Meeting at International Airport Hotel

Now in his 70s Harry Bridges has had a long, exciting career as an independent, incorruptible, often intransigent labor leader. As a young Australian immigrant, he was a seaman and longshoreman on the West Coast, helped to organize the longshoreman…

More than a Century before the welfare state and comprehensive social services took shape, the early trade societies and unions had worked out an elaborate method of coping with unemployment that the industrial revolution made a constant feature of…

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…

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…

Trade Unions in the European is a thorough and up to date guide to the different forms of employee representation in the countries of the European union, as well as to different legal, political, and economic conditions in which trade unions operate.…

The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose…

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…

This study surveys the development of British trade unionism during the period of its transformation from a narrowly based, craft centered movement to a mass movement embracing all grade of workers, regardless of skills or training.

Dr Lovell…

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…