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This book examines the development of employers' human resource management and industrial relations policies in Britain. It adopts a broad historical perspective, beginning with the inheritance from the nineteenth century and coming up to date with modern human resource management policies. It focuses on how managers organise the employment relationship, how they control work relations, and how they deal with trade unions and industrial relations. The author examines these in the context of the market within which the firm operates, and the strategy, structure and hierarchy of the modern industrial enterprise. The book shows that historically British employers tended to adopt market-based strategies rather than internal ones.
This book examines the development of employers' human resource management and industrial relations policies in Britain. It adopts a broad historical perspective, beginning with the inheritance from the nineteenth century and coming up to date with modern human resource management policies. It focuses on how managers organise the employment relationship, how they control work relations, and how they deal with trade unions and industrial relations. The author examines these in the context of the market within which the firm operates, and the strategy, structure and hierarchy of the modern industrial enterprise. The book shows that historically British employers tended to adopt market-based strategies rather than internal ones.
Preface; 1. Introduction: the management of labour; Part I. The Inheritance: 2. Markets, firms, and the management of labour in the nineteenth century; Part II. Continuities and Change in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: 3. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production; 4. The evolving employment relationship; 5. Employers, unions, and collective bargaining; Part III: 6. Markets, firms, and the organisation of production; 7. Industrial relations: challenges and responses; 8. Employment relations in the post-war period; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Markets, firms and the management of labour; End notes; Index.
This 1992 book examines the development of industrial relations policies in Britain in the twentieth century.
'... will surely find a secure place in the industrial relations literature. The contribution which it makes to industrial relations theory and the link it forges with the theory of 'strategic choice' is significant.' Industrial Relations Journal 'Gospel has marshalled together a wealth of business history material, much of it from primary sources, in a coherent history which will be of use to anyone interested in British labour management. He also demonstrates the usefulness of institutionalist concepts and the potential for dialogue between institutionalism and other industrial relations, labour process and management perspectives.' Work, Employment & Society '... a wide ranging and detailed analysis of the forces which have shaped the conduct of UK employers with regard to the management of labour ... The book would be of interest to a variety of readers. It touches on issues of major concern for policy makers, and should constitute an important reference for students and researchers in the fields of industrial relations, labour economics and business history.' International Review of Applied Economics 'This is a compelling account. The breadth of research in primary and secondary sources is impressive. The analysis is intelligent and sound.' Business History
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