Shop Floor Bargaining and the State : Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; 1. Shop floor bargaining and the state: a contradictory relationship Jonathan Zeitlin; 2. Dilution, trade unionism and the state in Britain during the First World War Alastair Reid; 3. Public policy and port labour reform: the dock decasualisation issue, 1910?50 Noel Whiteside; 4. Government, employers and shop floor organisation in the British motor industry, 1939?69 Steven Tolliday; 5. The snares of liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy in the United States, ca. 1915?47 Howell Harris; 6. Politics, law and shop floor bargaining in postwar Italy Giovanni Contini; 7. Controlling production on the shop floor: the role of state administration and regulation in the British and American aerospace industries Bryn Jones; Index.