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Public Sector Industrial Relations

This book is first to concentrate on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining strikes, and dispute resolution. It offers not only an outline of the major…

Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations

Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations is 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.

Research in Occupational Stress and Wellbeing Volume 5: Employee Health, Coping and Methodologies

This is an annual research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well-being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. The intent is to pull together the various streams of…

Union-Free: Creating A Committed and Productive Workforce

In this provocative new book, Paul Mooney argues that the union-free organization is fast becoming the preferred model for employee relations in Ireland.

He shows why this is happening against a backdrop of profound changes in workplace…

The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization.

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…

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…

Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study

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…

Report of the Policy Research Centre 1990-1993

A report of the Policy Research Centre, National College of Industrial Relations from October 1990 to September 1993.

Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Italy

This book covers the principles of Labour law and industrial relations in Italy in a broad sense. After a general introduction covering general features, historical background and definitions, the book goes on to discuss the sources of labour law and…

Recasting Worker Involvement? Recent Trends in Information, Consultation and Co-determination of Worker Representatives in a Europeanized Arena

In ‘Recasting Worker Involvement’ a group of authors especially Germany (Oldenburg) and Netherlands (Groningen) analyses recent trends in worker involvement and the actual condition of Rhinelander capitalism. In times of economic and financial…

Travelling Brothers: The Six Centuries' Road from Craft Fellowship to Trade Unionism

More than a Century before the welfare state and comprehensive social services took shape, the early trade societies and unions had worked out an elaborate method of coping with unemployment that the industrial revolution made a constant feature of…

Deviance in The Workplace

This volume is about deviance in the workplace. It defines deviance as departures from laws or organizational rules by workers, managers, or an organization as an entity. It brings together contributions by scholars in the sociology of work and of…

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…

Trade Unions and the Management of Industrial Conflict

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…