Trade Unions and the State (eBook)

The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

Chris Howell (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2661-2 (ISBN)

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Chris Howell is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France (Princeton), and numerous articles on British and French industrial relations and labor politics.

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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 government interference. Howell, on the other hand, argues that the British state was the prime architect of three distinct systems of industrial relations established in the course of the twentieth century. The book contends that governments used a combination of administrative and judicial action, legislation, and a narrative of crisis to construct new forms of labor relations. Understanding the demise of the unions requires a reinterpretation of how these earlier systems were constructed, and the role of the British government in that process. Meticulously researched, Trade Unions and the State not only sheds new light on one of Thatcher's most significant achievements but also tells us a great deal about the role of the state in industrial relations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: activism • Antonio Gramsci • arbitration • ballot • Bargaining Power • Capitalism • Central Bank • class conflict • Closed shop • Collective agreement • collective bargaining • Compulsory arbitration • Conciliation • Confederation of British Industry • Corporatism • Criticism • decentralization • decommodification • deindustrialization • Deregulation • Economic Growth • economic interventionism • Economic planning • economic problem • Economic Restructuring • Economics • Employment • Employment contract • Financial Capital • Fordism • General union • German model • Globalization • Governance • hostility • Ideology • Individual and group rights • Industrial Action • Industrial Charter • industrial democracy • industrialisation • Industrial Policy • Industrial relations • injunction • In Place of Strife • Institution • Job Security • Joint Industrial Council • Judicial Activism • Keynesian Economics • labour law • labour market flexibility • Labour movement • Laissez-faire • Layoff • Legislation • Managerial prerogative • Market Economy • Mass production • minimum wage • National Economic Development Council • Nationalization • National Labor Relations Act • new unionism • path dependence • Policy • Political Economy • post-Fordism • Privatization • Provision (contracting) • Publication • Public Policy • Radicalism (historical) • Recruitment • Regime • Regulation • Royal Commission • Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations • Social Democracy • social relation • state actor • Strike action • Structuring • Technological Change • Technology • Thatcherism • Trade Union • Trade Union Act • Unemployment • unfair dismissal • union density • Union Movement • Union representative • Varieties of Capitalism • wage • Wage regulation • Winter of Discontent • Work Council • Workforce • workplace
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2661-6 / 1400826616
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2661-2 / 9781400826612