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.
Industrial Relations in a Changing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael E. Beesley
December 01, 2025
Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow. This book exposes long-term trends underlying developments in the 1970s, emphasising the importance and variety of ...
Industrial Relations in the Modern State: An Introductory Survey
1st Edition
By R. Keith Kelsall, T. Plaut
December 01, 2025
Industrial Relations in the Modern State (1937) provides an introduction, as objective as possible in character, to the differing policies of 1930s liberal and totalitarian states in the matter of industrial relations. The period was the height of worker struggles around the world, as modern labour...
Industrial Relations in the Public Services
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Mailly, Stuart J. Dimmock, Amarjit Singh Sethi
December 01, 2025
Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher’s 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service. It considers the effects of the changing ‘...
International and Comparative Industrial Relations: A Study of Developed Market Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg J. Bamber, Russell D. Lansbury
December 01, 2025
International and Comparative Industrial Relations (1987) analyses the factors which have shaped industrial relations in a range of different countries, including the characteristics of the major groups and parties concerned, and the nature and types of bargaining relationships which have evolved. ...
Labour and Business in Modern Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Harvey, John Turner
December 01, 2025
Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research. The study of ‘labour process’ and the dynamics of the labour market are key, and each chapter stands alone as an investigation of an important episode, an ...
Living with Capitalism: Class Relations and the Modern Factory
1st Edition
By Theo Nichols, Huw Beynon
December 01, 2025
Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital’s Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The ...
Management by Agreement: An Alternative to the Industrial Relations Act
1st Edition
By W.E.J. McCarthy, N.D. Ellis
December 01, 2025
Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain. It looks at the threats of Government legal action against trade unions and the reform of collective bargaining, and concludes that the Act fails to deal with ...
Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations, 1717–1800
1st Edition
By C.R. Dobson
December 01, 2025
Masters and Journeymen (1980) examines eighteenth-century trade unionism through nearly four hundred labour disputes in Britain between 1717 and 1800. It uses a series of primary materials – rule books, minutes and written agreements – to identify the elements of an ‘industrial relations system’ ...
National Wages Policy in War and Peace
1st Edition
By B.C. Roberts
December 01, 2025
National Wages Policy in War and Peace (1958) examines the thorny issue of inflation prevention, looking at a host of Western economies in the wartime and postwar period. It looks at the experience of national wage policies under a variety of different economic and social conditions, and concludes ...
Ownership, Control and Ideology: An Enquiry into Certain Aspects of Modern Business Ideology
1st Edition
By Theo Nichols
December 01, 2025
Ownership, Control and Ideology (1969) looks at the debate surrounding issues of ownership and control. It analyses a large body of existing literature from several disciplines, examining the ‘factual’ issues but also showing that the terminology of the debate also requires fundamental re-analysis....
Public Sector Industrial Relations
1st Edition
By P.B. Beaumont
December 01, 2025
Public Sector Industrial Relations (1992) concentrates on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining, strikes and dispute resolution. It offers not only an outline of the major developments in the public sector ...
Safety at Work and the Unions
1st Edition
By P.B. Beaumont
December 01, 2025
Safety at Work and the Unions (1983) surveys the whole field of safety at work. It looks at the diverse body of literature on the subject, examines the organisational structures by which labour and management are attempting to cope with the problem, and compares the British with overseas experience...