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Trade unions and the state : the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000 /
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 indu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 govern. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826612 1400826616 9780691121062 0691121060 9780691130408 069113040X |