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Statement by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry

In some western eastern countries trade unions and employers' organizations for maintaining order and efficiency in the labour market as a matter of course. In others such a role is seen as an unacceptable interference with either the free market, or…

How do we understand ‘social partnership’? How does partnership vary across Europe and beyond? What are the implications of partnership for union renewal? This book addresses these questions by Exploring the relationship between union renewal and…

Europe has experienced a period of rapid change in traditional employee relations practice. Employee Relations in Europe reviews employee relations practice, analyses current developments in Europe and examines the impact of European Community…

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…

The Last decade has seen a remarkable change in the balance of power in Industrial relations throughout most European countries after the period of industrial militancy and Union strength during the 1970s. A widespread political shift to the right,…

In most of the EU fifteen Member States Sectoral collective bargaining is an import process, if not the principal means of regulating relations between employers and employees. Yet the sectoral level of social dialogue has long been neglected at the…

Industrial relations have traditionally been a national affair, characterized by distinct local laws, practices and cultures. The process of European integration, exemplified by the single market program, Maastricht treaty and the imminent prospect…

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,…

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.…

Monograph analysing government policy shifts over two decades (1956 to 1975) in the UK, seen within the context of labour relations activity and set within the general terms of social conflict - presents a theoretical approach and a historical…

A rewritten and completely updated version of The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain, this book provides a thorough and comprehensive description of British Industrial relations. It examines shop steward organization, the complex…

Over the last decade there has been much debate about the nature of British Industrial relations. This new edition of the British industrial relations has been fully updated to cover the fundamental issues and sources of controversy. It covers…

The collapse of Britain Powerful Labor Movement in the Lat quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in the recent political history. How was the government of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the…

Examines the origins of the concept of union organizing in Britain since the late 1990s, the trends that have pushed it forward, its strengths and weaknesses and its impact on the union movement.