Markets, Firms and the Management of Labour in Modern Britain

• 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.

Review of the hardback: '… 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