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Ireland Needs to Achieve Participation Rates in Education and Training Similar to Germany if We Are to Achieve a Similar Level of Economic Development

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Press Conference to Launch the Business Educator of the Year Award

Ireland - A Technologically Advanced Economy

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Business Conference on the Irish Economy in Stuttgart

Low Inflation and Reduced Debt the Key to Increasing Employment

Statement by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry on Publication of Inflation Figures for Mid-August

The Viewpoint from Industry: Concerns about Food, Textiles, Trade in Services, and Industrial Incentives

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Conference on "Prospects for the Uruguay Round" at Conference on the GAAT at the Riverview Centre, Clonskeagh, Dublin

CII Monthly Employment Report

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

Industrial Competitiveness and Employment Can Be Improved by Developing a More Extensive Network of Sub-Supply Firms

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

Economy Now under Pressure from Forces Outside Our Control

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

Weakness of Sterling

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

"Ireland and 1992"

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

Growing up in Ireland

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

Employment in Business Sectors of Economy Now at Highest Level Ever

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

Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States

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…

Travelling Brothers: The Six Centuries' Road from Craft Fellowship to Trade Unionism

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 New Politics of British Trade Unionism: Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy

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…

Trade Unionism: Purposes and Forms

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…