1st Edition
Unions and Employment in a Market Economy Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Preface
Chapter 1: Trade Union Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain: An Introduction
Introduction
Varieties of Capitalism
Deconstruction and Reconstruction
New Labour: Continuation of neoliberalism or breaking with the past?
Labour Party: A Channel for Trade Union Political Action
Trade Union Leadership, Strategy and Structure
Conclusion
Chapter 2: The Social Contract (1974-79)
Introduction
Donovan Commission and In Place of Strife
The Industrial Relations Act (1971)
The Social Contract in Formation
The Social Contract in Operation
The Winter of Discontent 1978/9
Evaluation and Reflections
Chapter 3: Employment Relations Reform under New Labour: Context, Continuity and Change
Introduction
Conservative Liberal Market Reform
Political Action: New Mechanisms
Ideological Disunity, Space and Convergence: Opposition Years
Progressive Centralisation
Formal to Informal Processes
1993/7 Political Fund Ballots
New Policy-Making Processes
Agency and Diminishing Trust
Chapter 4: The National Minimum Wage (1998)
Introduction
The Development of the NMW
The Low Pay Commission
Policy contestation and division
Evaluation and Reflections
Chapter 5: The Employment Relations Act (1999)
Introduction
Fairness at Work (May 1998)
Employment Relations Bill
ERA (1999)
Evaluation and Reflections
Chapter 6: The Warwick Agreement (2004)
Introduction
Exeter Policy Forum (2000)
Leadership Dynamics
The Big Four
Institutional Reconfiguration: TULO
The Agreement Implementation
Evaluation and Reflections
Chapter 7: Strategy, Influence and Power: lessons from history
Introduction
Structural Context: shifting fronts
Degree of Coordination
Transition to Informality
Concluding Observations
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Leadership and Strategic Choice
Political Action and Electoral Reform
New Structural Pressures
Appendix A: List of Interviews as Introduced
Appendix B: Key provisions of the Employment Act 2002
Appendix C: Key Warwick Agreement pledges
Glossary
Index
Biography
Andrew Brady is an academic with a PhD from the University of Strathclyde and works in the British labour movement.
