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Workplace Industrial relations in Britain have been the focus of extensive Public Debate and academic analysis over the last twenty years. Yet there is no systematic up to date account of the subject. Working Order sets out to fill the gap. …

A Labour History of Waterford describes the factors surrounding the development of local labour organization from medieval guilds to illegal combinations, journeymen’s associations, craft-societies, and modern trade unions. It also emphasizes that…

This pioneering overview of Irish labour history serves both as an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist. Its basic concern is to outline the course of labour history, to illustrate the different phases of its…

The European Union Attempts to influence employee practices in member and associate member states. It does this through a host of measures of varying legal effect: Directives, recommendations, bench Marking and monitoring procedures. However, the EU…

Essays regarding Jewish France. BNF (National Library of France), who provide access to the text to the public, disclaim that readers be aware that this work reflects a particular era and current of thought, and therefore contains many violent,…

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organized around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.

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…

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…

A learning support manual in year 2011-2012. Compiled by the National College of Ireland, the manual aims at facilitating students on self-reflection and increase academic success.

Involvement, Participation and Partnership: A Review of the Debate and Some Reflections on the Irish Context, was delivered by Prof. Paddy Gunnigle of the University of Limerick on November 22, 1999. It focused on employee participation and…

A discussion document on the Unfair Dismissals act. 1977, Employment Equality, and payment of Wages act. 1979. Includes a forward from the then Minister of Labour.

The curbing of trade union power has been widely regarded as the major achievement of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, yet students of industrial relations have generally argued that little has changed on the shop floor.

David Marsh’s new…

This book is both a survey and an argument. It is a survey of the Interplay of industrial relations and politics in Britain since 1951; but it is also an argument about the crisis of labour which has lain at the heart of that interplay throughout.…

How workers learn how to do their jobs is central to an understanding of the changing nature of work in post-industrial society The roles of job or worker training has, however, been underdeveloped in sociological theories of work and the labor…

Labor revitalization is among the first works to examine variations among the nations in the wide array of initiatives labor unions and labor movements are taking to strengthen themselves and recruit new members. Moving beyond previous research on…