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Author Howell, Chris, 1962-

Title Trade unions and the state : the construction of industrial relations institutions in Britain, 1890-2000 / Chris Howell.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.
Summary The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century. Most scholars regard Britain's industrial relations institutions as the product of a largely laissez faire system of labor relations, punctuated by occasional govern.
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Subject Labor unions -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Labor unions -- Government policy.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Labor unions.
Industrial relations -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial relations -- Government policy.
Industrial relations.
Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Howell, Chris, 1962- Trade unions and the state. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691121060 9780691121062 (DLC) 2004042069 (OCoLC)54865233
ISBN 9781400826612 (electronic book)
1400826616 (electronic book)
0691121060 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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