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Markets, firms, and the management of labour in modern Britain

Title: Markets, firms, and the management of labour in modern Britain / Howard F. Gospel.
Author: Gospel, Howard F.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Description

xiv, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book examines the development of employers' human resource management and industrial relations' policies in Britain. It adopts a broad historical perspective, beginning with the inheritance from the nineteenth century and coming up to date with modern human resource management policies. It focuses on how managers organise the employment relationship, how they control work relations, and how they deal with trade unions and industrial relations. The author examines these in the context of the market within which the firm operates, and the strategy, structure, and hierarchy of the modern industrial enterprise, developing a theoretical approach which emphasises the effect of these factors on management choices." "The book shows that historically British employers tended to adopt market-based strategies rather than internal ones. Despite a post-war trend towards 'internalisation', comparison with the US, Germany and Japan reveals that this has come about only slowly and unevenly, and has not been able to reverse the relative decline in economic performance and national competitiveness."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in management ; 17

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in management ; 17.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
reference.
référence bibliographique.
referencia.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-246) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: the management of labour -- pt. 1. The inheritance. 2. Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century -- pt. 2. Continuities and change in the first half of the twentieth century. 3. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production. 4. The evolving employment relationship. 5. Employers, unions, and collective bargaining -- pt. 3. Challenges and adjustments in the post-war years. 6. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production. 7. Industrial relations: challenges and responses. 8. Employment relations in the post-war period -- pt. 4. Conclusions. 9. Markets, firms, and the management of labour.

ISBN

9780521415279
0521415276
9780521426862
0521426863
9780511582394 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

91027288

OCLC

ocm24107874
24107874
SCSB-1953486

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library