The Power to Manage? : Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Perspective
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Overall the standards of the contributions are high, the book is very well referenced and presented, and at the level of editors' commentary it is extremely valuable. In addition, the volume is set out in a form which should be accessible to a wide range of social scientists interested in the determinants of employers' labour policies and their contribution to diverging (or converging) national patterns of industrial relations. The editors should be congratulated on their efforts and level of scholarship."
-Relations Industrielles, 1993
"To a remarkable degree, [the editors] have marshalled this collection of essays to the cause they are advancing, which is nothing less than an assault on the basic premises of modern scholarship on the management of labor."
-Business History Review
". . . an important and scholarly book."
-Political Studies
"The volume is rich, dense, and diverse...the stand-alone value of the individual chapters is almost uniformly high.."
-Contemporary Sociology
Book Description
The crucial role of employers and managers in the development of industrial relations has been the focus of much recent research. Yet there remains little consensus on key issues such as the determinants of managerial strategies or employers' contributions to differing national patterns of industrial relations.
The Power to Manage argues that many of these difficulties stem from the limitations of the theoretical frameworks within which the research has been carried out. Both functionalist and evolutionary perspectives subordinate managerial choices to the pressures of the market or the broader patterns of business development. In consequence, these approaches cannot explain the persistent diversity of employers' labor policies or the prevalence of contradictory and incoherent strategies.
Using the "peculiarities" of British industrial relations as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume present detailed empirical studies of employer labor policies in avariety of countries. They establish a comparative-historical framework within which the distinctiveness of British developments can be evaluated and explained, and which points the way towards a new interpretation of the employer's role in industrial relations.
The Power to Manage? : Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Perspective
The Power to Manage? : Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Perspective,S. TOLLIDAY,Routledge,0415026253,Business/Economics,Employers' associations,Great Britain,Industrial And Labor Relations,Industrial relations,Labor & Industrial Relations - General,Politics / Current Events,Personnel & human resources management,United Kingdom, Great Britain
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