Labour and Business in Modern Britain

by Charles Harvey (Editor), John Turner (Editor)

Overview

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 important industry, or an important theoretical question refracted through an historical problem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032849010
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2025
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Labour and Business in Modern Britain John Turner  2. ‘Specifically Designed’? Employers’ Labour Strategies and Worker Responses in British Railway Workshops, 1838–1914 Di Drummond  3. The Meanings of Managerial Prerogative: Industrial Relations and the Organisation of Work in British Engineering, 1880–1939 Alan McKinlay and Jonathan Zeitlin  4. Employers’ Labour Strategies, Industrial Welfare and the Response to New Unionism at Bryant and May, 1888–1930 Robert Fitzgerald  5. ‘Squeezing the Pulpless Orange’: Labour and Capital on the Railways in the Inter-War Years Gerald Crompton  6. Product Markets, Labour Markets and Industrial Relations: The Case of Flour Milling Howard F. Gospel  7. Trade Unions, Management and the Search for Production in the Coventry Motor Car Industry, 1939–75 Tom Donnelly and David Thomas