Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations presents in 38 volumes a series of previously out-of-print books that examine industrial relations between employers and workers, governments and workforces. Titles look at the history and development of industrial relations, mainly in Britain but also internationally, often comparing experiences around the world. Many titles analyse the shifting landscapes of the 1980s, as new governments brought with them new attitudes towards trade unions, and the development of management techniques and new styles of business brought about a range of developments that still resonate today.
Agenda for Change: An International Analysis of Industrial Relations in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Clarke, John Niland
December 01, 2025
Agenda for Change (1991) examines the experiences of five industrialised market economies in a period of profound change in industrial relations. It looks at the national history and culture affecting industrial relations, the obstacles to change and the levers that could effect it, and the ...
An Introduction to Industrial Relations
1st Edition
By Michael P. Jackson
December 01, 2025
An Introduction to Industrial Relations (1991) analyses various theoretical approaches to industrial relations, and summarises the origins and development of the subject. It looks at the impact of legislative changes, technological developments and the growing currency of ‘human resource management...
British Industrial Relations
1st Edition
By Gill Palmer
December 01, 2025
British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, an often controversial subject with a variety of academic interpretations which achieved a large significance in national politics. The author draws on political and social theory to ...
Business and Sociology
1st Edition
By T.F. Honour, R.M. Mainwaring
December 01, 2025
Business and Sociology (1982) is a sociological perspective on business that examines industrialisation, capitalism, organisation, management, work, and industrial relations. It approaches the subject with an acknowledgment of its capitalist nature, rather than organisational or industrial nature....
Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations
1st Edition
By Dominic Strinati
December 01, 2025
Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations (1982) examines the many different forms of state intervention in industrial relations in Britain, among them being corporatism, liberalism, paternalism and pluralism. This discussion puts forward a sociological explanation of some of the determinants ...
Change in Industrial Relations: The Organization and Environment
1st Edition
By P.B. Beaumont
December 01, 2025
Change in Industrial Relations (1990) examines the industrial relations system in the UK at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of changes such as the growth of non-union firms, trade union decline, the emergence of human resource management practices, and increase in labour–management ...
European Trade Unionism
1st Edition
By Eric Jacobs
December 01, 2025
European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities. Trade unions in Europe differ in their political and religious allegiances, their membership and structure, their success or failure – but they have much in ...
History and Heritage: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations Systems
1st Edition
By Alan Fox
December 01, 2025
History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain’s industrial relations system – its institutions, texture and place in wider society. It looks at pre-industrial patterns of thought and behaviour, at religious and...
Improving Industrial Relations: The Advisory Role of ACAS
1st Edition
By Eric Armstrong, Rosemary Lucas
December 01, 2025
Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS). ACAS is most widely known for its attempts to resolve industrial disputes through conciliation, but most of its endeavours ...
Industrial Action: Patterns of Labour Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen J. Frenkel
December 01, 2025
Industrial Action (1980) examines in a comparative analysis the principal elements involved in industrial action – strikes, work-to-rule, go-slows etc – in four key industries in Australia – construction, shipbuilding, the waterfront and telecommunications. The individual case studies are placed ...
Industrial Relations: Contemporary Problems and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By B.C. Roberts
December 01, 2025
Industrial Relations (1968) discusses the impact of the changing industrial relations environment on the supply of labour, trade unions, management, collective bargaining, wage policy, factory level relationships, industrial social policy, the law, politics and public policy and its administration ...
Industrial Relations and Health Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Amarjit Singh Sethi, Stuart J. Dimmock
December 01, 2025
Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA. While there are differences between the systems in these three countries, such differences illuminate the particular responses and ...