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View article: Hugh Clegg (1920-95), the new ‘Warwick School’ of Industrial Relations and the Creation of the Modern Records Centre
Hugh Clegg (1920-95), the new ‘Warwick School’ of Industrial Relations and the Creation of the Modern Records Centre Open
The Warwick Industrial Relations (IR) academics, George Bain and Hugh Clegg, were key movers in founding the Modern Records Centre (MRC) & attracting the unique collection of trade union and employers' records. In the late 1960s, after his…
View article: Before the “fall”: Alan Fox's “intellectual crisis” and early pluralist history and sociology
Before the “fall”: Alan Fox's “intellectual crisis” and early pluralist history and sociology Open
Purpose This paper presents an historical reconstruction of the radicalisation of Alan Fox, the industrial sociologist and a detailed analysis of his early historical and sociological writing in the classical pluralist phase. Design/method…
View article: Mapping employee involvement and participation in institutional context: Mick Marchington's applied pluralist contributions to human resource management research methods, theory and policy
Mapping employee involvement and participation in institutional context: Mick Marchington's applied pluralist contributions to human resource management research methods, theory and policy Open
Our paper examines how the work of Mick Marchington integrated older forms of employee participation with newer patterns of employee involvement. The paper shows how Employee Involvement and Participation (EIP) is central to contemporary H…
View article: The TUC and social democratic trade union leadership in twentieth century Britain: Bevin, Citrine and after.Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill, by AndrewAdonis, Biteback, London, 2020.Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union Congress, by Dr JimMoher, JGM Books, London, 2021.
The TUC and social democratic trade union leadership in twentieth century Britain: Bevin, Citrine and after.Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill, by AndrewAdonis, Biteback, London, 2020.Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union Congress, by Dr JimMoher, JGM Books, London, 2021. Open
Trade unions and industrial relations (IR) are central to twentieth century British History and the larger political conflicts of the Cold War. Yet, biographies of major trade union leaders are few and far between these days. Indeed, there…
View article: W. T. Stead. Nonconformist and newspaper prophet. By Stewart J. Brown. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. xvi + 226. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £30. 978 0 19 883253 9
W. T. Stead. Nonconformist and newspaper prophet. By Stewart J. Brown. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. xvi + 226. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £30. 978 0 19 883253 9 Open
There are already several studies of W.T. Stead (1849–1912), English Congregationalist newspaper editor, Christian moral campaigner and spiritualist, but Stewart Brown brings a distinctive focus on the development of Stead's eclectic relig…
View article: Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management
Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management Open
Alan Fox's frames of reference has sparked over half a century of debate between employment relations/human resource management pluralists, radicals and unitarists. But the notion of industrial relations pluralism itself continues to be hi…
View article: Reading Hugh Clegg’s ‘The Bullock Report and European Experience’ (1977) in Historical Context
Reading Hugh Clegg’s ‘The Bullock Report and European Experience’ (1977) in Historical Context Open
Hugh Clegg’s riposte to the 1977 Bullock Report on Industrial Democracy was one of seven papers published from a conference on the subject in April that year. His contribution has to be seen against his long-standing views (expressed, for …
View article: Neo-pluralism as a research approach in contemporary employment relations and HRM: complexity and dialogue
Neo-pluralism as a research approach in contemporary employment relations and HRM: complexity and dialogue Open
Classical pluralism focused on free trade unions and collective bargaining institutions as the liberal-democratic ‘voice’ alternative to both pro-business unitarism and anti-capitalist radicalism. The decline of these institutions under ne…
View article: Protestant Sectarianism in Twentieth-Century British Labour History: From Free and Labour Churches to Pentecostalism and the Churches of Christ
Protestant Sectarianism in Twentieth-Century British Labour History: From Free and Labour Churches to Pentecostalism and the Churches of Christ Open
The British educated classes have long worried and fantasized about working-class religious belief and unbelief. Anglican churchmen feared Methodist “enthusiasm” in the eighteenth century, radicalism in the aftermath of the French Revoluti…
View article: Workplace Participation in Britain, Past, Present, and Future: Academic Social Science Reflections on 40 Years of Industrial Relations Change and Continuity
Workplace Participation in Britain, Past, Present, and Future: Academic Social Science Reflections on 40 Years of Industrial Relations Change and Continuity Open
Works Councils and other forms of statutory workplace consultation play a significant role in many European countries. This has never been true in the British Industrial Relations system. Instead, employers and the state encouraged volunta…
View article: Workers of the World? A British Liberal-Pluralist Critique of Marcel van der Linden’s Global Labour History
Workers of the World? A British Liberal-Pluralist Critique of Marcel van der Linden’s Global Labour History Open
Marcel van der Linden has championed Global Labour History (GLH) as a solution to the decline of Labour History as an academic field. His 2008 Workers of the World (and other writing) strives to transcend methodological nationalism and pro…
View article: Free collective bargaining and incomes policy: learning from Barbara Wootton and Hugh Clegg on post‐war British Industrial Relations and wage inequality
Free collective bargaining and incomes policy: learning from Barbara Wootton and Hugh Clegg on post‐war British Industrial Relations and wage inequality Open
Growing income inequality has returned as a major political issue in affluent, advanced economies, often associated directly with the decline of trade unions and collective bargaining. In policy terms, this has been reflected in the Britis…
View article: Looking Forward: Civil Society After State-Socialism and Beyond Neo-liberalism
Looking Forward: Civil Society After State-Socialism and Beyond Neo-liberalism Open
The authors consider what can be learned from the opening up of British labour history in the contributions to this collection, and taken forward to inform debates about the future of society and politics. They distinguish between three sp…