Title: Trade unions and the state
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.
Subjects: Government policy, History, Industrial relations, Labor movement, Labor unions, Industrial relations, great britain, Labor movement, great britain, Labor unions, great britain, Labor unions, government policy
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century