The New Industrial Relations

This study analyzes the response of the British Electricians' Union to economic adversity, and to new managerial strategies, as embodied in the union's novel agreements in three Japanese-owned British electronics firms. These agreements provide that the union is the sole bargaining representative in each firm; most British plants, by contrast, have multiple-union representation. Most of the new-style agreements also contain a no-strike clause, final-offer arbitration of interest disputes, and measures to increase labor flexibility, reduce the diversity in conditions among plant, office, and managerial employees, and enhance employee participation in major company decisions. The author views these agreements as evidence that fundamental changes in collective bargaining relationships are taking place

Arbitration · Archaeology · Bargaining power · Business · Collective bargaining · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Embodied cognition · Flexibility (engineering) · Industrial organization · International trade · Labour economics · Management · Market economy · Political science · Representation (politics) · Style (visual arts) · Trade union · Computer Science · History · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

• Bourgeois Revolutions

  Open Access•Paul Pierson, Miriam Smith•Comparative Political Studies•1993

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• Toward a Structural Account of Union Participation in Management

  Open Access•Kirsten R Wever•Industrial and Labor Relations…•1989

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• Running the Gauntlet

  Brian Towers•Industrial and Labor Relations…•1989

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• British Trade Unionism 1979-89

  Open Access•John Kelly•Work Employment and Society•1990

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• The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

  Harry C Katz, Harry Charles Katz et al.•The Transformation of American…•1989

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