The New Industrial Relations thesis maintains that fundamental change has occurred in British industrial relations sufficient to warrant a re-evaluation of the workplace relationship. In this book leading figures in the field review the assumptions of this argument and the evidence. Topics include the development of HRM policies; employment legislation; changes in union membership, structures and activity; Japanization; changes in the public sector.
List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Notes on Contributors 1. 'How Do We Know How it Really Is?': An Analysis of the New Industrial Relations,Ian Beardwell 2. Human Resource Management and the New Industrial Relations,David Guest and Kim Hoque 3. The State and New Industrial Relations,Ian Clark 4. Trade Union Law since 1979,Stephen Dunn and David Metcalf 5. Industrial Relations and Performance since 1945,Peter Nolan 6. Public Sector Industrial Relations,Rachel Bailey 7. Union Derecognition: a Re-Examination,Tim Claydon 8. The New New Unionism,Edmund Heery 9. Japanization and New Industrial Relations,David Grant Index