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Work and Workers offers a map of how telecommunications technology has changed the workplace and work over recent decades.

The Collapse of Communism and the ensuing process of reforming in central eastern Europe have presented a unique laboratory for researchers interested in social change and institutional building. Eastern Germany provides a particularly interesting…

Second edition of the National College of Ireland's guide to part-time and distance learning courses in Ireland in 2001.

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…

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 summer of 2000 was dominated by a three-month lock-out by Iarnrod Eireann, the national train service, of 118 of its drivers, over 40% of the driving grade. The employees involved were all the members of Irish locomotive drivers Assocation…

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

The Fourteenth Countess Markievicz, Memorial Lecture 1989 

This text covers the evolving industrial relations law and its usage in Ireland. It comments on the origin of trade unions and the significance that has been had by the British system, as well as bridging the constitution and industrial relations in…

Industrial relations law and practice in the republic of Ireland is a reflection of the haphazard way in which the system evolved. It is the product of several acts of expediency rather than rational planning with a coherent philosophy. One of the…

This book provides an extensive and detailed map of the trade union movement in the UK today. It is source of information ranging from the overall shape and direction of the British trade union movement to the telephone numbers of the regional…

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…

What are the key features of Unionized Labour Markets? This important book analyses the nature of contracts between unions and management, and evaluates the result for wages, employment, and productivity. It synthesizes the major strands of research…

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…

This book is addressed to several audiences. It offers those interested in in the sociology of work, industry, of industrial relations, of exchange theory, and of organization generally an analysis of how industrialization, division of labour , and…