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A speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the CII Regional meeting in Carlow about the importance of the Transport Bill 1976.

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at the Chartered Institute of Transport Conference at the Shelbourne Hotel

The cultural industries have been considered unique and out of the mainstream, not a subject for developing general theory, and therefore relatively understudied by scholars of organizations. We argue it is no longer the case that cultural industries…

A talk given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the Irish Institute of Training Managers' Seminar on "Leadership" at the Burlington Hotel.

Trade Unions in the European is a thorough and up to date guide to the different forms of employee representation in the countries of the European union, as well as to different legal, political, and economic conditions in which trade unions operate.…

Trade Unions in Renewal brings together a series of studies of union renewal from five different countries - the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. Although unions in the five countries have all been influenced by…

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…

The collapse of Britain Powerful Labor Movement in the Lat quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in the recent political history. How was the government of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the…

This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

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…

British Trade Unions once so influential, are now on the defensive. In the face of world economic recession and mass unemployment, their industrial power has been eroded, their membership has declined and industrial action has increasingly become…

What are trade unions for? Why do trade unions movements vary so? Trade unionism in its various national forms has been the subject of increasing scrutiny during the second half of the twentieth century. Ross Martin’s book is concerned with two…

During the 1980s, British trade unionism confronted its greatest challenge, and suffered its greatest reverses, since the inter-war period. After a decade of rapid growth, the unions experienced a steep decline in membership, and virtual…

Leaflet detailing trade union courses organised by the Catholic Workers' College for year 1964-1965.

Leaflet detailing trade union courses organised by the Catholic Workers' College for year 1963-1964.