Trade unions and the state : the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

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Label

Trade unions and the state : the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

Title remainder

the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

Statement of responsibility

Chris Howell

Creator

• Howell, Chris, 1962-
• Howell, Chris, 1962-

Subject

• Industrial relations -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Labor unions -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

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 govern

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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

331/.0941/0904

Index

index present

LC call number

HD6664

LC item number

.H69 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography