This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:
- central problems in industrial relations
- the mobilization theory of collective action
- the growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership
- an historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilization
- a critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movement
Containing a detailed examination of the evolution of industrial relations, it argues that the area is often under-theorized and influenced by the policy agenda of the...
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This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:
- central problems in industrial relations
- the mobilization theory of collective action
- the growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership
- an historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilization
- a critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movement
Containing a detailed examination of the evolution of industrial relations, it argues that the area is often under-theorized and influenced by the policy agenda of the state or employers, and will prove informative reading for students of industrial relations.
- ISBN13 9781134663286
- Publish Date 12 October 2012 (first published 14 May 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 192
- Language English