The British coal mining industry has been at the forefront in the use of modern management control techniques. This systematic evaluation of its failures and successes provides important lessons for the development and implementation of control strategies in industry in general. The authors describe the processes of labour management employed at each level of the coal mining industry, evaluate their success in management terms and review the wider, frequently unanticipated consequences of their adoption. The text also analyzes the response of the workforce and its union, the National Union of Mineworkers, over a period of time from the mid-1970s to the aftermath of the 1984-5 strike. This study will be of interest to students and academics in industrial relations, organizational behaviour, management, business studies and labour economics.
- ISBN10 0198272677
- ISBN13 9780198272670
- Publish Date June 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 287
- Language English