Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations presents in 38 volumes a series of previously out-of-print books that examine industrial relations between employers and workers, governments and workforces. Titles look at the history and development of industrial relations, mainly in Britain but also internationally, often comparing experiences around the world. Many titles analyse the shifting landscapes of the 1980s, as new governments brought with them new attitudes towards trade unions, and the development of management techniques and new styles of business brought about a range of developments that still resonate today.
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By John Niland, Oliver Clarke
October 21, 2024
Agenda for Change (1991) examines the experiences of five industrialised market economies in a period of profound change in industrial relations. It looks at the national history and culture affecting industrial relations, the obstacles to change and the levers that could effect it, and the ...
By Michael P. Jackson
October 21, 2024
An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject. It looks at the impact of legislative changes, technological developments and the growing currency of ‘human resource management...
By Gill Palmer
October 21, 2024
British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, an often controversial subject with a variety of academic interpretations which achieved a large significance in national politics. The author draws on political and social theory to ...
By T.F. Honour, R.M. Mainwaring
October 21, 2024
Business and Sociology (1982) is a sociological perspective on business that examines industrialisation, capitalism, organisation, management, work, and industrial relations. It approaches the subject with an acknowledgment of its capitalist nature, rather than organisational or industrial nature....
By Dominic Strinati
October 21, 2024
Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations (1982) examines the many different forms of state intervention in industrial relations in Britain, among them being corporatism, liberalism, paternalism and pluralism. This discussion puts forward a sociological explanation of some of the determinants ...
By P.B. Beaumont
October 21, 2024
Change in Industrial Relations (1990) examines the industrial relations system in the UK at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of changes such as the growth of non-union firms, trade union decline, the emergence of human resource management practices, and increase in labour–management ...
By Eric Jacobs
October 21, 2024
European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities. Trade unions in Europe differ in their political and religious allegiances, their membership and structure, their success or failure – but they have much in ...
By Alan Fox
October 21, 2024
History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain’s industrial relations system – its institutions, texture and place in wider society. It looks at pre-industrial patterns of thought and behaviour, at religious and...
By Eric Armstrong, Rosemary Lucas
October 21, 2024
Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS). ACAS is most widely known for its attempts to resolve industrial disputes through conciliation, but most of its endeavours ...
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By Stephen J. Frenkel
October 21, 2024
Industrial Action (1980) examines in a comparative analysis the principal elements involved in industrial action – strikes, work-to-rule, go-slows etc – in four key industries in Australia – construction, shipbuilding, the waterfront and telecommunications. The individual case studies are placed ...
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By B.C. Roberts
October 21, 2024
Industrial Relations (1968) discusses the impact of the changing industrial relations environment on the supply of labour, trade unions, management, collective bargaining, wage policy, factory level relationships, industrial social policy, the law, politics and public policy and its administration ...
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By A.S. Sethi, S.J. Dimmock
October 21, 2024
Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA. While there are differences between the systems in these three countries, such differences illuminate the particular responses and ...