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White Collar Workers, Trade Unions, and Class

Recent years have seen the emergence of what is variously referred to as ‘the new working class’ or even ‘the new middle class’. This new class is largely centered on the ever-increasing number of technical, supervisory and lower managerial…

Whither a Prosperous Ireland - Industrial Development

A speech given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at the Adult Education Students' Congress, University College Cork.

Why More Funds Are Not Invested in Productive Enterprise

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry at CII Dublin West Regional Meeting at the Hermitage Golf Club

Women in Industry

A speech given by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, at a seminar held by The National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs of the Republic of Ireland at Downshire House, Blessington.

Work and Workers Volume 1

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

Work and Workers Volume 2

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

Work and Workers Volume 3

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

Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends

Worker's participation: Current Research and Future Trends, volume 16 of research in the sociology of work, offers cutting-edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the…

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organising and Advocacy

Working for justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive ‘L.A. Model’ of union and worker centre organising. The organised labour movement in Los…

Working Order: Workplace Industrial Relations over Two Decades

Workplace Industrial relations in Britain have been the focus of extensive Public Debate and academic analysis over the last twenty years. Yet there is no systematic up to date account of the subject. Working Order sets out to fill the gap. …

Working Together We Can Beat the Scourge of Unemployment

Speech by Liam Connellan, Director General of the Confederation of Irish Industry, to Dublin Diplomatic Association at Jury's Hotel, Ballsbridge