Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations

Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations

Since the publication of the Donovan report industrial relations research has increasingly moved away from studies of formal procedures and institutions and focused more on informal custom and practice. Because of this trend the workplace itself, rather than the wider industrial relations systems, has come to be regarded as the key unit of analysis. This Book, based on data obtained in observational research amongst managers, shop stewards, and workers, examines the informal processes by which accommodations are, or are not, reached by managers and workers. The Authors develop a theory of workplace rule making and argue that it is in negotiations over such detailed and often minor daily industrial issues that the industrial that the relationship between capital and labour is worked out.

P.J. Armstrong, J.F.B. Goodman and J.D. Hyman

Croom Helm

1981

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