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

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…

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

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

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…

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,…

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

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,…

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 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.

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

Peillon’s analysis of "Strategies of State Mobilization in Irish Industrial Relations" describes how the Irish state actively organizes and manages popular energy—specifically workers and unions—to align with national industrial development…

This edited collection of essays on the ‘new workplace’ reflects the major changes which have affected the position of British trade unions over the past decade. It brings together two important themes – new management practices and trade…

In recent decades there has been a considerable relative decline in the numbers of manual workers in production industries who have in the past formed the backbone of trade union organisation. In most western countries, ‘white-collar’ employees…