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Online-Ressource (254 p.)
ISBN:
1282158597
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9780691130408
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9781282158597
Inhalt:
The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century. Most scholars regard Britain's industrial relations institutions as the product of a largely laissez faire system of labor relations, punctuated by occasional gov
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Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Puzzle of British Industrial Relations; CHAPTER TWO: Constructing Industrial Relations Institutions; CHAPTER THREE: The Construction of the Collective Laissez-Faire System, 1890-1940; CHAPTER FOUR: Donovan, Dissension, and the Decentralization of Industrial Relations, 1940-1979; CHAPTER FIVE: The Decollectivization of Industrial Relations, 1979-1997; CHAPTER SIX: The Third Way and Beyond: The Future of British Industrial Relations; Notes; References; Index;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781400826612
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1282158457
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Trade Unions and the State : The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Sprache:
Englisch
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