Labour and Business in Modern Britain

Charles Harvey, John Turner, Charles Harvey, John Turner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032849003
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040122563
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research. The study of 'labour process' and the dynamics of the labour market are key, and each chapter stands alone as an investigation of an important episode, an important industry, or an important theoretical question refracted through an historical problem.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Labour and Business in Modern Britain
• ‘Specifically Designed’? Employers’ Labour Strategies and Worker Responses in British Railway Workshops, 1838–1914
• The Meanings of Managerial Prerogative: Industrial Relations and The Organisation of Work in British Engineering, 1880-1939
• Employers’ Labour Strategies, Industrial Welfare, and the Response to New Unionism at Bryant and May, 1888-1930
• ‘Squeezing the Pulpless Orange’: Labour and Capital on the Railways in the Inter-War Years
• Product Markets, Labour Markets, and Industrial Relations: The Case of Flour Milling
• Trade Unions, Management and the Search for Production in the Coventry Motor Car Industry, 1939–75
• Index