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The Opportunity to Expand Exports

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

The Oxford Book of Work

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.

The Pace of Change over the Last Decade

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.

The Politics of Industrial Relations

Monograph on the political aspects of labour relations in the UK - discusses the main political issues and objectives affecting the government, employers organizations, trade unions and other interest groups, includes historical developments,…

The Present Position & the Possibilities: A Business View

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 Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American workplace

This comparative industrial relations text explains this development primarily through the Withdrawal of Public Policy support and, mainly in Britain’s case, its replacement by government hostility which has been only recently, and partially,…

The Rise of the Irish Trade Unions

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…

The Role of Irish Engineering in Promoting Economic Recovery and Development

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

The Role of Tourism in the Economy - An Industrial Viewpoint

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

The second Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture: The individual, the trade union and the state - Some contemporary issues

The Countess Markievics Memorial Lecture has been established by the Irish Association for Industrial Relations with the support of the Department of Labour. Countess Markievics was first Minister for Labour of the newly-independent Irish State. Th…

The Shop Stewards' Movement and Workers' Control, 1910-1922

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

The Sociology of Job Training

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…

The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change

Professor Allen’s Study of the changing composition and organization British in first appear in the early sixties and rapidly established itself with the students of Business and economics, and with general readers a reliable introduction to the…

The Viewpoint from Industry: Concerns about Food, Textiles, Trade in Services, and Industrial Incentives

Address by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at Conference on "Prospects for the Uruguay Round" at Conference on the GAAT at the Riverview Centre, Clonskeagh, Dublin