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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.…

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.

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…

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

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.

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…

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at Chairman's Dinner of the Irish Management Institute, Cork Region, at the Silver Springs Hotel, Cork

An outline of two-year course leading to graduate membership of the institute of personnel management at the College of Industrial Relations in year commenced in September 1968.

Unions affect us all, no matter where we live and work. This book tells us all about them, their past and present About how they began, Their Turbulent years when joining one could cost you your life, their legendary leader like Jim Larkin and the…

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 decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose…

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

An introductory paper by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, for the 2nd National Manufacturing Conference, 1977.

United We Stand is a highly original and fundamentally important history of how working people in Britain, from the eighteenth century to the present, have sought to improve their position in an often-harsh world.

Throughout the modern era trade…