Labour Relations in the Motor Industry

A Study of Industrial Unrest and an International Comparison

H. A. Turner, Garfield Clack, Geoffrey Roberts

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138060869
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351669412
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Automobile Industry
• Index: Business

This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains chapters on the effects of automotion and technical change, on the impact of fluctuations in the market for cars and on wage trends. There are detailed surveys of some of the biggest post-war disputes and especially of trade union organization, the shop steward system, the experience of individual firms, such as Austin, Ford and Fiat. There is also a comparative survey of labour relationships in other major car manufacturing countries such as the USA, Germany and Japan.

INDEX

In principle this index includes detailed references to subjects only to the extent that these are not covered by sub-heads in the Contents (pp. 13ff.) and List of Tables and Diagrams (pp. 16ff.). Thus the references to ‘Accidents’ and ‘Absenteeism’ are broadly to the pages of Ch. IV, Section D, that deal with those subjects, and otherwise to occasional or incidental references outside that Section.

Absenteeism, 75, 167, 184ff., 190, 330ff.

- in other countries, 309, 321

Accidents, 22, 167, 186ff., 330ff.

Adams, R., 105

Alfa Romeo, 314

Allen, V. L., 202

Alvis, 28, 119

Amalgamated Engineering Union (A.E.U.)

- in individual firms, 99, 194, 196, 208, 271, 287, 346ff.

- membership in car firms, 34, 193ff., 201, 347

- organization, 201ff., 217, 341ff.

- role in ‘procedure’, 252ff.

- recruiting policy, 192ff., 196, 198

- relations with other unions, 88, 198ff., 355

- shop stewards in, 193, 201, 206ff., 211, 340, 346

- in certain strikes, 276ff., 281ff., 284ff.

Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists (A.S.W.C.M.), 196, 198

American car industry

- collective bargaining in, 297ff.

- labour relations in, 87, 294ff., 323, 339

- production, employment in, 109, 127, 295, 300

- strikes in, 24, 298ff., 328

- wages in, 97, 127, 303ff.

American Federation of Labour (A.F. of L.), 297

American Motors, 295, 301, 304

Anarcho-Syndicalists, 291

Armstrong Siddeley, 28

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Diagrams
• Preface: and a note on recent events
• I. Strikes: and the Car Industry
• Appendix: The effects of strikes in car factories
• II. The Issues in Dispute
• III. Productivity Growth and Technical Change
• Appendix: Output, employment and productivity indices for motor vehicles, 1948-64
• IV. Strikes and the Level of Activity
• Appendix: What happened in 1965?
• V. Wages in the Motor Industry
• VI. The Work, Workers and Work Situation
• VII. Trade Unions and Shop Stewards
• Appendix: Some smaller strikes: from the inside
• VIII. The Firms Compared: and the Employers’ Organization
• Appendix: The strike-liability of individual firms
• IX. The Biggest Strikes: and the Role of Individuals
• X. Industrial Relations in Foreign Car Firms
• XI. Summaries and Conclusions
• Index