Organised Capital. Employers' associations and industrial relations in northern England, 1880-1939
Details:
- Author(s) McIvor, Arthur J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1996
- Pages 323pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Business interest representation & co-operation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'This book ... explores the heyday of delegated, multi-employer relations with trade unions and collective regulation of the labour contract and labour markets, examining the genesis and evolution of employers' associations, the formulation of multi-employer labour relations strategies and the changing role of such institutions in British industrial relations over the period 1880-1939'. Organised in three parts, viz: 1] 'Setting the scene'; 2] 'Forging employers' organisations, 1880-1920' - organisation, membership, solidarity, strikebreaking, collective bargaining and procedural control, impact of 1914-18; 3] 'Reacting to the economic slump, 1920-39' - 'millowners' counter-attack', stabilising labour markets - building, defending the managerial prerogative - engineering. Includes much about the Cotton Spinners' & Manufacturers' Association; the Engineering Employers' Federation [EEF], Manchester Engineering Employers' Association, Society of Master Calico Printers, etc