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Irish Inflation Must Be Reduced Below That of Our Main Trading Partners and This Reduction Must Be Reflected in Government Budget Estimates

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at the Industrial Members Conference of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants at the Berkeley Court Hotel, Dublin

Need "Plan for National Recovery" to Which All Give Commitment

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

Buy Irish This Christmas to Create Jobs

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at meeting of Limerick Chamber of Industry, at University Club, Plassey Technological Park

The Opportunity to Expand Exports

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at CTT Annual Conference

What's Wrong with The Unions?

Should money be automatically levied for the labour party from a union member unless he formally contracts out of it?

Should our exports be jeopardized because a couple of trade unions are pursuing a vendetta over demarcation or poaching? …

Theories of Trade Unionism

This comprehensive study traces the development of the trade union theory from its nineteenth century foundation to the more advanced conceptual models of today. Michael Poole surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches - the moral and ethical,…

Redefining Public Sector Unionism: UNISON and the Future of Trade Unions

This volume brings together a selection of contributions from expert academics and leading figures of the union itself, wherein the achievements and failures of UNISON since its creation in 1993, and the challenges it will face in the future, are…

The New Working Class? White-Collar Workers and Their Organizations: A Reader

In recent decades there has been a considerable relative decline in the numbers of manual workers in production industries who have in the past formed the backbone of trade union organisation. In most western countries, ‘white-collar’ employees…

The Future of the Trade Unions

Britain's trade unions are facing formidable problems as they respond to the challenge of rapid economic and industrial change. But they remain adaptable enough to survive and grow into the twenty-first century. This is the main conclusion of this…

Trade Unions and the Economy: Into the 1990s

What are the effects of Britain’s trade unions upon pay, productivity and jobs?

How has management attempted to increase flexibility at the workplace in the 1980s? Is this really a new phenomenon, and how should unions respond?

Is there a…

Trade Unions in British Politics: The First 250 Years

How did British trade unions become the most politically influential in the western world? Have they exercised an arbitrary power? How effective have legal constraints been on their activities? Will the 1990s see the marginalization of the unions, or…

White Collar Workers, Trade Unions, and Class

Recent years have seen the emergence of what is variously referred to as ‘the new working class’ or even ‘the new middle class’. This new class is largely centered on the ever-increasing number of technical, supervisory and lower managerial…

Unions in a Changing World: Problems and Prospects in Selected Industrialized Countries

This timely book takes as its starting point 11 monographs from trade union confederations in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as other sources. From a…

The Shop Stewards' Movement and Workers' Control, 1910-1922

Part of a thesis entitled: The demand for workers' control in the railway, coalmining, and engineering industries, 1910-1922.

A Question of Balance: Labour, Management and Society

A Question of Balance is a lucid and readable rendering of a complex and vexed issue, namely industrial relations. Bringing together articles written over a period of eight years, it offers an objective and unbiased commentary, unencumbered by the…