This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers:

• central problems in industrial relations
• the mobilization theory of collective action
• the growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership
• an historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilization
• a critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movement

Containing a detailed examination of the evolution of industrial relations, it argues that the area is often under-theorized and influenced by the policy agenda of the state or employers, and will prove informative reading for students of industrial relations.

Reviews

'One of the key and outstanding contributions to the study of employment and industrial relations in the last generation.' - Gregor Gall and Jane Holgate, Economic and Industrial Democracy

'One of the most important theoretical developments in contemporary IR scholarship.' - Martin Behrens and Andreas Pekarek

'Ambitious and provocative' - The Journal of Industrial Relations

Book Information
ISBN 9780415186735
Author John Kelly
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 294g