Markets, Firms and the Management of Labour in Modern Britain (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introduction: the management of labour; Part I. The Inheritance: 2. Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century; Part II. Continuities and Change in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: 3. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production; 4. The evolving employment relationship; 5. Employers, unions, and collective bargaining; Part III: 6. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production; 7. Industrial relations: challenges and responses; 8. Employment relations in the post-war period; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Markets, firms and the management of labour; End notes; Index.