Employment Relations in Britain

25 Years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Herausgeber: Towers, Brian; Brown, William

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

ACAS is arguably the most successful and certainly the longest-lived public agency in British post-war industrial relations history. This volume brings together contributions from eminent academics and senior ACAS officials to provide a fascinating account of the agency's achievements, failures and remarkable survival during a period of political upheaval and dramatic economic and industrial relations change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780631223269
• ISBN-10: 0631223266
• Artikelnr.: 25467964

Autorenporträt

Brian Towers teaches in the Department of Human Resource Management, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. He is the founder and editor of Industrial Relations Journal and an ACAS arbitrator with extensive experience in the practice of industrial relations and human resource management.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: John Houghton (Chairman, ACAS).
2. The First Quarter Century: William Brown (University of Cambridge) and
Brian Towers (Nottingham Trent University).
3. Setting the Pace or Running Alongside? ACAS and the Changing Employment
Relationship: Bill Hawes.
4. Building Bridges and Settling Differences: Collective Conciliation and
Arbitration Under ACAS: John Goodman.
5. Doing More With Less: ACAS and Individual Conciliation: Linda Dickens.
6. Doing it with Style: The Work of the ACAS Conciliator in Individual
Employment Rights Cases: Gill Dix.
7. Learning from a Repeating History? ACAS and Trade Union Recognition:
Stephen Wood.
8. Supporting Collective Bargaining: Some Comparative Reflections: Bob
Hepple.
9. After Collective Bargaining? ACAS in the Age of Human Resource
Management: John Purcell.
10. The Best and the Worst of Times: Survival and Progress, 1974-2000 and
Beyond: Brian Towers and William Brown.