Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilisation, Collectivism and Long Waves

Book synopsis: This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers: \n \ncentral problems in industrial relations \nthe mobilization theory of collective action \nthe growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership \nan historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilization \na critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movement \nContaining a detailed examination of the evolution of industrial relations, it argues that the area is often under-theorized and influenced by the policy agenda of the state or employers, and will prove informative reading for students of industrial relations.