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The political economy of industrial relations : theory and practice in a cold climate

Title: The political economy of industrial relations : theory and practice in a cold climate / Richard Hyman.
Author: Hyman, Richard.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press, 1989.

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Description

xvi, 259 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This collection of essays attempts to demonstrate how an adequate analysis of trade unions, strikes and collective bargaining must be rooted in a broader understanding of their political and economic context. The second part of the book deals with the central problems of trade unionism.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1 Making sense of industrial relations: why industrial relations?; trade unions, control and resistance; pluralism, procedural consensus and collective bargaining; pressure, protest and struggle; theory in industrial relations. Part 2 Problems of contemporary trade unionism: the politics of workplace trade unionism; the sickness of British trade unionism; dualism and division in labour strategies; trade unionism, the workplace and the state; class struggle and the trade union movement.

ISBN

0333464303
9780333464304
0333464311
9780333464311

LCCN

89152392

OCLC

ocm20934155
20934155
SCSB-1891618

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Princeton University Library