Industrial conflict: will the giant wake?

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The nature of industrial conflict in the UK is steadily changing as evidenced by the significant decline in strike actions. This may partly be due to the many changes in the work environment which include reduction of workers in such strike-prone areas as coal mines and the docks, the passing of more stringent laws governing strikes, and changes in personnel management. This does not automatically signify, however, that conflicts between management and the workforce have totally vanished. Employees may just be finding out that staging strikes is not the only way of securing their demands.

Labor organizations, United Kingdom, Analysis, Cover Story, Labor relations, Strikes, Great Britain

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The collapse of compulsory unionism? collective organization in highly unionized British companies, 1979-1991

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100% union membership has declined amongst non-manual workers and this has been precipitated by legislative prohibition and the refusal of management to endorse union membership requirements. The presence of compulsory unionism in 50 major highly unionized companies between 1979 and 1991 is examined, and discusses post-entry 100% membership practices and the drift of compulsory unionism away from an explicit agreement towards procedural custom and practice.

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High-involvement work systems and performance outcomes: the strength of variable, contingent and context-bound relationships

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Issues concerning the role of high-involvement work systems (HIWSs) in the performance of companies are discussed. It is suggested that there is a weak causal link between elements of an HIWS and performance because of poor specification of the nature of the HIWS and because mechanisms connecting it to performance are not found in models.

Research, Industrial efficiency, Economic efficiency

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