Trade Unions in Britain TodayThis revised edition provides an introduction to British trade unionism and key debates about its role in politics in the 1990s. It explores the political background to union activities, the industrial relations scene, the arguments for and against controversial aspects of union practice and the state of the unions in the face of the sustained challenge of the Conservative years. |
Contents
organisation and structure | 1 |
Tables | 11 |
8a Union density by industry sector sex whether | 34 |
Unions economy and society | 54 |
Bargaining and the workplace | 97 |
Union democracy and equal rights | 145 |
Unions and the state | 185 |
Unions and the law | 226 |
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