Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves
ISBN-10
1134663285
ISBN-13
9781134663286
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2012-10-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
John Kelly

Description

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.

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