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>