Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations

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ID19937430
AuthorsDominic Strinati (corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-08-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCapitalism, the State and Industrial Relations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003495178
OpenAlexW643235688
ISBN9781003495178
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations (1982) examines the many different forms of state intervention in industrial relations in Britain, among them being corporatism, liberalism, paternalism and pluralism. This discussion puts forward a sociological explanation of some of the determinants of state intervention. It concentrates on the period since 1960 and on policies such as those embodied in the Industrial Relations Act of 1971 and the Employment Protection Act of 1975. Institutional changes, such as the formation of the Commission on Industrial Relations and of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, are also considered. With this in view, this book examines the relationship between class structure, class conflict and state power. The role and influence of organised labour and the industrial working class on the formulation of policy are assessed in order to clarify the social forces constraining and shaping the intervention of the state in industrial relations. One crucial conclusion to emerge is a sceptical assessment of the possibilities for the establishment of a successful corporatist control of industrial relations by means of the state in Britain

Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Management · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Industrial relations · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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