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Political Economy of Industrial Relations

Theory and Practice in a Cold Climate

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Richard Hyman

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Making Sense of Industrial Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Industrial Relations?

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 3-19

    3. Trade Unions, Control and Resistance

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 20-53

    4. Pluralism, Procedural Consensus and Collective Bargaining

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 54-95

    5. Pressure, Protest and Struggle: Some Problems in the Concept and Theory of Industrial Conflict

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 96-119

    6. Theory in Industrial Relations: Towards a Materialist Analysis

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 120-146

  3. Problems of Contemporary Trade Unionism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The Politics of Workplace Trade Unionism: Recent Tendencies and Some Problems for Theory

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 149-165

    3. The Sickness of British Trade Unionism: Is There a Cure?

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 166-187

    4. Dualism and Division in Labour Strategies

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 188-201

    5. Trade Unionism and the State: Some Recent European Developments

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 202-223

    6. Class Struggle and the Trade Union Movement

      • Richard Hyman
      Pages 224-253

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 255-259
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This collection of essays attempts to demonstrate how an adequate analysis of trade unions, strikes and collective bargaining must be rooted in a broader understanding of their political and economic context. The second part of the book deals with the central problems of trade unionism.

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  • University of Warwick, UK

    Richard Hyman

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