1st Edition

Rethinking Industrial Relations Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

By John Kelly Copyright 1998
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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: central problems in industrial relations the mobilization theory of collective action the growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership an... Read more

1. Introduction

2. The Field of Industrial Relations

3. Mobilization Theory

4. Mobilization and Industrial Relations

5. Olsonian Theory and Collective Action: a critique

6. Long Waves in Industrial Relations

7. Postmodernism and the End of the Labour Movement

8. Conclusions

Biography

John Kelly

'One of the key and outstanding contributions to the study of employment and industrial relations in the last generation.' - Gregor Gall and Jane Holgate, Economic and Industrial Democracy

'One of the most important theoretical developments in contemporary IR scholarship.' - Martin Behrens and Andreas Pekarek

'Ambitious and provocative' - The Journal of Industrial Relations