The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization.

The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization.

This edited collection of essays on the ‘new workplace’ reflects the major changes which have affected the position of British trade unions over the past decade. It brings together two important themes – new management practices and trade unionism - normally weakly linked in theory but in reality highly connected. By starting from the premise that effective trade unions are essential to the wages, conditions and democratic rights of working people, the book goes on to show how employers have sought to minimize the impact of unions upon work organization and employment relations.

The editors have gathered together some of the leading writers on workplace industrial relaions who present research which crosses a number of discipline boundaries. The contributors take different positions within the debate on the influence of unions in the new workplace, and the text is therefore particularly suitable for both postgraduate and undergraduate teaching.

Peter Ackers, Chris Smith, and Paul Smith

Routledge

1996

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