Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilization, Collectivism, and Long WavesPsychology Press, 1998 - 177 Seiten 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:
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. |
Inhalt
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Postmodernism and the end of the labour movement a critique | 108 |
Conclusions | 126 |
Notes | 133 |
Bibliography | 143 |
Name Index | 168 |
Subject Index | 173 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activists activity amongst analysis approach argued argument associated behaviour Britain British Brown capitalist cent changes Chapter claims collective action collective bargaining collectivism concept Consequently costs countries critical debate decline definition density discussion downswing economic Edwards effects employer employment et al evidence existence factors field forms free-riding growth historical idea identity important increased individual industrial relations injustice instance interests involved issues Italy join labour least levels literature long waves major means measures militant mobilization theory movement non-union Olson organization particular parties period points policies political postmodernist problems production question rational rational choice theory reasons recent rise role rule Second sense shifts showed significant similar social strike waves structure studies suggests survey Table theoretical tion trade union turn union membership upswing values whilst workers workplace
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 68 - Indeed, unless the number of individuals in a group is quite small, or unless there is coercion or some other special device to make individuals act in their common interest, rational, self-interested individuals will not act to achieve their common or group interests.
Seite 67 - It must be responsive to individuals' preferences. Specifically, if every individual prefers A to B, then society's ranking must prefer A to B. 4. It must be consistent in the sense that if A is preferred to B and B is preferred to C, then A is preferred to C.13 5. Society's ranking of A and B depends only on individuals
Seite 67 - Elster (1985:11) defends this claim explicitly when he defines methodological individualism as "the doctrine that all social phenomena - their structure and their change - are in principle explicable in ways that only involve individuals - their properties, their goals, their beliefs and their actions.
Seite xiii - ASLEF Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen ASTMS Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs AUEW Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers BALPA British Airline Pilots...
Seite 142 - Western labour movement and the 'overconsumptionist' dynamic of capitalism in the Reagan-Thatcher era. From this perspective, the term 'postmodern' would seem to be a floating signifier by means of which this intelligentsia has sought to articulate its political disillusionment and its aspiration to a consumption-oriented lifestyle.
Seite 36 - ... that small group setting in which processes of collective attribution are combined with rudimentary forms of organization to produce mobilization for collective action
Seite 140 - federal" group — a group divided into a number of small groups each of which has a reason to join with the others to form a federation representing the large group as a whole. If the central or federated organization provides some service to the small constituent organizations, they may be induced to use their social incentives to get the individuals belonging to each small group to contribute toward the achievement of the collective goals of the whole group. Thus, organizations...
Seite 69 - By far the most important single factor enabling large, national unions to survive was that membership in those unions, and support of the strikes they called, was to a great degree compulsory. The "union shop," the "closed shop," and other such instruments for making union membership compulsory are not, as some suppose, modern inventions.
Seite 70 - collective bargaining," not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements.
Seite xiv - TASS Technical Administrative and Supervisory Section (of the AUEW) TGWU Transport and General Workers...