Taming the trade unions : a guide to the Thatcher government's employment reforms, 1980-90
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Taming the trade unions : a guide to the Thatcher government's employment reforms, 1980-90
Macmillan in association with the Adam Smith Institute, 1991
- : pbk
- : hard
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Note
Bibliography: p. 168-174
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A review of the way in which the Thatcher government dealt with employment reforms between 1980 and 1990. Included in the book are chapters on trade union democracy and the role of the TUC, deregulation of the labour market and an examination of how a Labour government would tackle these issues.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Thatcher governments's employment reforms 1980-90: the winter of discontent
- step by step reform - an outline of the process
- trade union immunities - the heart of the matter
- the closed shop
- picketing
- trade union democracy and the role of the TUC
- deregulating the labour market, the rise of self-employment and the individual contract of employment
- some economic benefits of the reforms
- unfinished business
- what would a labour government do?
- epilogue to part 1. Part 2 New employment policies in the enterprise: introduction to part 2
- from industrial relations to human resource management
- the importance of the customer
- zero-defect quality and high productivity
- recruiting and motivating individual employees
- creating a team spirit
- profit sharing and co-partnership
- the open shop and the new trade unionism
- a new style of management.
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