Format:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313834
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9781136518973
Content:
This comparative study of industrial relations provides an analysis of a wide range of phenomena, with a view to uncovering the origins of national diversity
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Part 1: The comparative approach -- 1. Introduction -- Definitions -- The scope of comparative analysis -- Principles of comparative analysis -- The investigation -- 2. Comparative frameworks -- The central theoretical approach -- Strategy, strategic choice and social action -- Strategic choices of the 'actors' and the overall framework for analysis -- Environmental conditions -- Subjective meanings and policies -- Cultural values and civilization -- Ideologies -- Economic policies -- Public and legal policies -- Structural conditions -- Social -- Economic -- Political -- Technological -- Legal -- Demographic -- Intervening conditions -- Organizational structures and processes -- The institutional framework of industrial relations -- Industrial relations processes -- Historical or temporal forces and movements -- A temporal explanatory framework -- Forces for divergence and convergence in industrial relations -- Late development -- Summary and developments -- Part 2: The 'actors' in the industrial relations system -- 3. Managers and employers' associations -- A theory of managerial strategies and 'styles' in industrial relations -- Managerial strategies and 'styles' -- The patterning of choices: general categories of social action, culture and ideology -- The general categories of social action -- Culture -- Ideologies -- Structural constraints -- Environmental conditions -- Organizational and industrial relations structures - the locus of strategic decision making -- Temporal diversity -- Employers' associations -- A theory of employers' associations -- Variations in the incidence and impact of employers' associations
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Explanations -- Strategy and political economy -- The power of the 'actors' in the industrial relations system -- Supplementary influences -- Material 'infrastructure' -- Culture and ideology -- The structure of industrial relations institutions -- The timing and pace of industrialism -- Conclusions -- 4. Labour and trade unions -- Theories of labour strategy and trade unionism -- Strategies of labour: choices and constraints -- Social 'action' and labour strategy -- Choices, culture and ideology -- The constraints of environment -- Labour market segmentation -- Power and strategies of employers, management and the state -- Labour strategy and the formation of trade unions -- Trade unionism under collective bargaining -- Trade union density -- Trade union structure -- Trade union government -- Disjunctive-type trade unions with political, religious or nationalist objectives -- Culture and ideology -- Stage of industrialism -- The role of the state -- Trade unionism under socialism -- Ideology, strategic choice and compromise -- Decentralization: economy and polity -- Culture, autonomy and 'Solidarity' -- 5. Governments, political parties and the role of the state -- A theory of the state -- Definitions -- Strategies of members of the state -- Western industrial societies -- Pluralism -- Corporatism -- 'Societal' corporatism -- 'State' corporatism -- Political parties, labour and the state -- Socialist countries of the Second World -- Developing countries -- Summary -- Part 3: Key themes in comparative industrial relations -- 6. Industrial conflict -- A theory of industrial conflict -- Conflict strategies -- Strategies and industrial conflict: outcomes -- Patterns of industrial conflict: meanings and constraints -- Meanings, culture and ideology -- Constraints -- Economic conditions -- Organizational strategies of management
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Industrial relations institutions -- The power of the 'actors' -- Conclusions -- 7. Industrial democracy -- A theory of industrial democracy -- Strategic choices, rationalities and preferences -- Strategies and diverse institutional forms -- Meanings: culture and ideology -- Public policy and legal enactment -- Constraints: structures and institutionalization -- The 'power' of the 'actors' -- Conclusions -- 8. The distribution of economic rewards -- A theory of the distribution of economic rewards -- Strategies, choices and constraints -- Culture -- Ideology -- Economic conditions -- Political conditions -- Organizational variables: the role of the multinational corporations -- The distribution of power -- Trade Unions -- The state: incomes policies -- Summary -- Part 4: Conclusions -- 9. Conclusions -- Cultural values -- Ideologies -- Politico-economic structure -- The institutional framework of industrial relations -- The power of the 'actors' -- Temporal forces and movements -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index
Additional Edition:
Print version Poole, Michael Industrial Relations Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313834
Language:
English
Keywords:
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