Rethinking Industrial Relations

<p>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:</p><ul> <li>central problems in industrial relations</li> <li>the mobilization theory of collective action</li> <li>the growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnership</li> <li>an historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilization</li> <li>a critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movement</li> </ul><p>Containing 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.</p> <p>1. Introduction</p><p>2. The Field of Industrial Relations</p><p>3. Mobilization Theory</p><p>4. Mobilization and Industrial Relations</p><p>5. Olsonian Theory and Collective Action: a critique</p><p>6. Long Waves in Industrial Relations</p><p>7. Postmodernism and the End of the Labour Movement</p><p>8. Conclusions</p>