Markets, Firms and the Management of Labour in Modern Britain

Klappentext This 1992 book examines the development of industrial relations policies in Britain in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This 1992 book examines the development of employers' personnel! human resource! and industrial relations policies in Britain in the twentieth century. It focuses on how managers organise the employment relationship! how they control work relations! and how they deal with trade unions and industrial relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: the management of labour; Part I. The Inheritance: 2. Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century; Part II. 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; Part III: 6. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production; 7. Industrial relations: challenges and responses; 8. Employment relations in the post-war period; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Markets, firms and the management of labour; End notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Gospel, Howard F. Gospel, Gospel Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.1992
• EAN: 9780521415279
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41527-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Managemen
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education