Peter Ackers

Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis

An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to understand the politics and industrial relations of the post-war period in Britain (in which trade unions were central) through the life of a key public intellectual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032422909
• ISBN-10: 1032422904
• Artikelnr.: 70145971

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackers is an Emeritus Professor in the History of Industrial Relations at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Why does Hugh Clegg still matter? Part One: Intellectual and Political Formation 2 A Methodist Family (1920
32) 3 A Communist in a Methodist School (1932
39) 4 Mass Observation then Oxford (1939
41) 5 War and Marriage (1941
45) Part Two: An Academic and Public Life 6 Losing Faith: Magdalen College (1945
47) 7 Industrial Democracy: Nuffield College (1947
54) 8 The 'Oxford School' of Industrial Relations (1954
64) 9 Reforming British Industrial Relations: The Donovan Commission (1964
68) 10 The 'Warwick School' of Industrial Relations (1968
79) 11 The Thatcher Turning Point? From Industrial Democracy to Trade Union History (1979
95) 12 Personal Epilogue: The legacy of Hugh Clegg