Bad Time Stories
Subtitle: Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781442648821
Subjects: Collective bargaining, government employees; Employee-management relations in government; Industrial relations, canada
Description: In Bad Time Stories, Yonatan Reshef and Charles Keim analyse the language of both parties in order to identify the legitimation strategies at work during government-union conflict. The authors use evidence drawn from newspapers, speeches, parliamentary transcripts, and legal statements in presenting a new framework for understanding the discursive strategies employed by governments and unions in labour disputes.

Using a case study and linguistic approach, Bad Time Stories offers a unique perspective on industrial relations and will be of interest to scholars in the areas of business, public policy, and communications, as well to those directly involved in union-management negotiations."--Pub. desc.