Employment relations in Britain : 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
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Employment relations in Britain : 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Blackwell Publishers, 2000
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Industrial relations journal
British journal of industrial relations
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"25acas"--T.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Published in association with ACAS, the Industrial relations journal and the British journal of industrial relations
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Description
This volume brings together contributions from eminent academics and senior ACAS officials to provide a fascinating account of the agency's achievements, failures and remarkable survival during a period of political upheaval and dramatic economic and industrial relations change.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: John Houghton (Chairman, ACAS). 2. The First Quarter Century: William Brown (University of Cambridge) and Brian Towers (Nottingham Trent University).
3. Setting the Pace or Running Alongside? ACAS and the Changing Employment Relationship: Bill Hawes.
4. Building Bridges and Settling Differences: Collective Conciliation and Arbitration Under ACAS: John Goodman.
5. Doing More With Less: ACAS and Individual Conciliation: Linda Dickens.
6. Doing it with Style: The Work of the ACAS Conciliator in Individual Employment Rights Cases: Gill Dix.
7. Learning from a Repeating History? ACAS and Trade Union Recognition: Stephen Wood.
8. Supporting Collective Bargaining: Some Comparative Reflections: Bob Hepple.
9. After Collective Bargaining? ACAS in the Age of Human Resource Management: John Purcell.
10. The Best and the Worst of Times: Survival and Progress, 1974-2000 and Beyond: Brian Towers and William Brown.
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