Trade unions and the state
Subtitle: the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
By: Chris Howell.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Labor unions -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Industrial relations -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.