Change in Industrial Relations: The Organization and Environment

Change in Industrial Relations: The Organization and Environment

The 1980s have witnessed a wide range of alleged changes in industrial relations in Britain, such as growth of nonunion firms, trade union decline, the emergence of human resource management practices, and an increase in labour management cooperation. As a result, there is increased controversy about how the industrial relations system in the UK works today, and its basic path of development in the future.

The Author describes the major features of the system and discusses the recent changes, drawing on insights from economics, organization behavior, and urban and regional research, as well as from the traditional literature of industrial relations. Focusing on collective bargaining, he examines the practices of British system of industrial relations in recent years and places the UK in a wider context by providing facts and figures for other national system, in a particular making extensive reference to developments and research in the USA. He discusses the emergence of a number of new issues and raises the questions of where the system is going in the future. Analytical in its approach, the book takes account of changing and dynamic aspects of the industrial relations system. Up to date and comprehensive, it will be available as a text and as a source of reference for students of industrial relations, organization studies, and economics.

P.B. Beaumont

Routledge

1990

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English

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