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This edited collection of essays on the ‘new workplace’ reflects the major changes which have affected the position of British trade unions over the past decade. It brings together two important themes – new management practices and trade…

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

The Oxford Book of Work is both a literary anthology and an account of the nature of work and our attitudes to it. Drawing upon imaginative writing as well as documentary accounts from people in various occupations, it explores every aspect of work.

A speech given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at a Seminar on Distance Education at the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin.

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants Cork and District Branch Conference on the Optimisation of All our Resources at Hotel Blarney, Blarney Co. Cork

The Rise of Irish Trade Unions which covers the story of Irish Trade Unionism, north and south, to the present day. To his meticulously researched study, first published in 1972, Andrew Boyd has added a chapter bringing the history of Irish Unions up…

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Institution of Engineers of Ireland and Engineering Graduates Association meeting

A speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the National Tourism Seminar held in Galway.

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

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…

A speech given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the Vocational School, Monaghan, as part of the Aontas Lecture Series 1979: "Ireland - The Challenge of the 80s" - "Industry".

A speech given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at the Cork/Kerry Regional Committee of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland Annual Dinner at Blackrock Castle, Cork.

Mr. Wyckoff is now writing, from the notes he took during the second year of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his experiment while in the west, where he had even more instructive experience, nearly…

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,…