Peter Ackers
Ashgate
Hardback
180
Professor Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of the post-war discipline of industrial relations in the UK. Long before business schools appeared on the academic landscape industrial relations courses provided a scholarly forum for the systematic investigation of British industry. Clegg along with other members of the pluralist school came to have a major influence on public policy throughout the 1960s and 1970s until the emergence of Thatcherism in 1979. They argued that problems of industrial relations were much more than a simple conflict between employees and employers and that numerous sociological factors needed to be considered to resolve the long-term structural problems that bedevilled British industry.By focusing on Clegg the key thinker of post-war industrial relations and relating his life and responses to critical moments in British politics this book is able to link intellectual history to a strong economic political and sociological framework. In this way it provides a broad-based assessment of the pluralist concept of work and employment and why it ultimately failed to provide an industrial relations policy that could be accepted by successive governments in the way that the welfare state the mixed economy and full-employment had been.
Ashgate
Hardback
180
Professor Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of the post-war discipline of industrial relations in the UK. Long before business schools appeared on the academic landscape industrial relations courses provided a scholarly forum for the systematic investigation of British industry. Clegg along with other members of the pluralist school came to have a major influence on public policy throughout the 1960s and 1970s until the emergence of Thatcherism in 1979. They argued that problems of industrial relations were much more than a simple conflict between employees and employers and that numerous sociological factors needed to be considered to resolve the long-term structural problems that bedevilled British industry.By focusing on Clegg the key thinker of post-war industrial relations and relating his life and responses to critical moments in British politics this book is able to link intellectual history to a strong economic political and sociological framework. In this way it provides a broad-based assessment of the pluralist concept of work and employment and why it ultimately failed to provide an industrial relations policy that could be accepted by successive governments in the way that the welfare state the mixed economy and full-employment had been.