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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…

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…

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.…

A talk given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the Irish Institute of Training Managers' Seminar on "Leadership" at the Burlington Hotel.

The cultural industries have been considered unique and out of the mainstream, not a subject for developing general theory, and therefore relatively understudied by scholars of organizations. We argue it is no longer the case that cultural industries…

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at the Chartered Institute of Transport Conference at the Shelbourne Hotel

A speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the CII Regional meeting in Carlow about the importance of the Transport Bill 1976.

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…

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at Chairman's Dinner of the Irish Management Institute, Cork Region, at the Silver Springs Hotel, Cork

An outline of two-year course leading to graduate membership of the institute of personnel management at the College of Industrial Relations in year commenced in September 1968.

Unions affect us all, no matter where we live and work. This book tells us all about them, their past and present About how they began, Their Turbulent years when joining one could cost you your life, their legendary leader like Jim Larkin and the…

This timely book takes as its starting point 11 monographs from trade union confederations in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as other sources. From a…