Trade unions and the British industrial relations crisis : an intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg

"Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today. He defined 'industrial democracy' as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundation...

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Main Author Ackers, Peter, 1957- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
SeriesRoutledge research in employment relations
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003362104
1003362109
9781040009062
1040009069
9781040009086
1040009085
9781032422909
1032422904
9781032422916
1032422912
Physical Description1 online resource.

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