British Industrial Relations

British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, a subject with a variety of academic interpretations. The author draws on political and social theory to explain both the state of British industrial relations in the 1980s and the conflicting prescriptions for change.

1. Introduction 2. Perspectives on the Employment Relationship 3. Employers and their Strategies 4. Employers' Associations 5. Employees and Workgroups 6. Trade Unions - Employee Institutions 7. The Politics of Industrial Relations 8. The British System of Collective Bargaining 9. Government Attempts to Reconstruct British Industrial Relations 10. Negotiation and Control