Rethinking Industrial Relations by John Kelly, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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:central problems in industrial relationsthe mobilization theory of collective actionthe growth of non-union workplaces and the prospects and desirability of a new labour-management social partnershipan historical account of worker collectivism, organization and militancy and state or employer counter mobilizationa critique of postmodernism and accounts of the end of the labour movementContaining 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. | Rethinking Industrial Relations by John Kelly, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters