Markets, firms, and the management of labour in modern Britain

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
1 - Introduction: the management of labour......Page 15
Part 1 - The inheritance......Page 27
2 - Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century......Page 29
Part 2 - Continuities and change in the first half of the twentieth century......Page 51
3 - Markets, firms, and the organisation of production......Page 53
4 - The evolving employment relationship......Page 75
5 - Employers, unions, and collective bargaining......Page 93
Part 3 - Challenges and adjustments in the post-war years......Page 117
6 - Markets, firms, and the organisation of production......Page 119
7 - Industrial relations: challenges and responses......Page 141
8 - Employment relations in the post-war period......Page 162
Part 4 - Conclusions......Page 183
9 - Markets, firms, and the management of labour......Page 185
Notes......Page 204
Index......Page 261