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How did British trade unions become the most politically influential in the western world? Have they exercised an arbitrary power? How effective have legal constraints been on their activities? Will the 1990s see the marginalization of the unions, or…

A work from former UCC president Alfred O’ Rahilly, a political writer and supported of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. O’Rahilly led Irish delegations to the International Labour Organization conferences in 1924, 1925 and 1932, and took on conciliatory…

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organised around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.

Based on a lecture to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Institute of Employment Rights given by Jim Mortimer. Opening address was given by John Hendy.

This book was published to document the making of NC Iris, a public sculpture gifted by the National College of Ireland to the local community and the city of Dublin.ISBN: 094803744X; 9780948037443The book is available at Norma Smurfit Library,…

Britain's trade unions are facing formidable problems as they respond to the challenge of rapid economic and industrial change. But they remain adaptable enough to survive and grow into the twenty-first century. This is the main conclusion of this…

When Alexander Bowman was elected to Belfast corporation as labour member for Duncairn in 1897, the very idea that he would still be remembered a century later for his relentless championing of the working-class cause appeared unthinkable. Yet…

Wealth of Nations is a text covering economics theory and the foundations of modern economics. It explores market dynamics, the division of labour, and the core concepts of economic thought. This 1850 edition includes contributions by John Ramsey…

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…

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 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…

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

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…

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

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