The Changing System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain

The Changing System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain

A rewritten and completely updated version of The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain, this book provides a thorough and comprehensive description of British Industrial relations. It examines shop steward organization, the complex structure of British unions, Managerial techniques, and labour efficiency, contrasting patterns of collective bargaining in the public sector and manufacturing industry, successive income policies and recent labour law amongst a wealth of other related issues. Professor Clegg then examines the questions arising from these descriptions. Why are the shop stewards so powerful in Britain? What are the consequences of British Union Structure? How have seventeen years of almost continuous income policies changed industrial relations? How did we Acquire the Employment Protection Act, and what have been its effects so far?

The principal theme of the book is the rise of workplace bargaining and particularly its consolidation, formalization, and extension over the last ten years. Many other significant changes over these years in the functions of employers’ associations, in managerial techniques, in the government of trade unions, and in the patter of income policy- have come about largely in response to what has been happening to collective bargaining in the plant. The conduct of plant industrial relations has also prompted much of the flood of labor legislation over the same period, and has had a powerful influence on the way in which legislation has worked –or failed.

H. A. Clegg

Basil Blackwell

1980

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