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Capitalism
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Class conflict
Closed shop
Collective agreement
Collective bargaining
Conciliation
Confederation of British Industry
Corporatism
Criticism
Decentralization
Decommodification
Deindustrialization
Deregulation
Economic growth
Economic problem
Economic restructuring
Economics
Employment
Employment contract
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Fordism
German model
Globalization
Ideology
Individual and group rights
Industrial action
Industrial democracy
Industrial policy
Industrial relations
Industrialisation
Injunction
Institution
Job security
Joint Industrial Council
Judicial activism
Labour law
Labour movement
Layoff
Legislation
Managerial prerogative
Mass production
Minimum wage
National Labor Relations Act
New Unionism
Policy
Political economy
Post-Fordism
Provision (contracting)
Public policy
Radicalism (historical)
Regime
Regulation
Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations
Social democracy
State actor
Strike action
Thatcherism
Trade union
Unemployment
Unfair dismissal
Union density
Union Movement
Union representative
Varieties of Capitalism
Wage
Wage regulation
Workforce
Workplace
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130408
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? 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. Understanding the demise of the unions requires a reinterpretation of how these earlier systems were constructed, and the role of the British government in that process.
Meticulously researched, Trade Unions and the State not only sheds new light on one of Thatcher's most significant achievements but also tells us a great deal about the role of the state in industrial relations.
Chris Howell is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of "Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France" (Princeton), and numerous articles on British and French industrial relations and labor politics.
