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Now in his 70s Harry Bridges has had a long, exciting career as an independent, incorruptible, often intransigent labor leader. As a young Australian immigrant, he was a seaman and longshoreman on the West Coast, helped to organize the longshoreman…

Understanding Industrial Relations emphasizes the importance of management role before explaining the involvement of Unions and state. The Legal framework is shown in detail and later chapters examine industrial relations in practice, at the…

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…

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…

This exhibition provides insight into how the National College of Ireland contributed to industrial relations in Ireland in the twentieth century. It explores how industrial relations evolved during the Irish Free State period. It also examines the…

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…

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,…

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…