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The General Election of 1979 was the third in succession to be lost by a British government whose policy has come into conflict with trade union power. The building of that power is one the great economics and social changes of the last hundred years…

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.

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.

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,…

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

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 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…

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

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

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…

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

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…

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…

A case analysis on the union committee and its influence on union decision making.