New Labour's Reform of Britain's Employment Law: The Devil is not only in the Detail but in the Values and Policy Too
The Labour government's goal of social partnership embodies a particular view of the appropriate role of labour within the employment relationship, which requires the marginalization of trade unionism as an autonomous force. Its programme of employment law reform combines a dual focus: first, the reaffirmation of measures that weaken workers' collective power through the exclusion of autonomous trade unionism, and second, initiatives to regulate the labour market, strengthen workers' rights within the employment relationship, and include enterprise-confined, cooperative unions as subordinate 'partners'. However, the second policy dimension has been diluted because of the commitment to free-market values. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd/London School of Economics 2001.
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2001
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Authors: | Smith, Paul ; Morton, Gary |
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British Journal of Industrial Relations. - London School of Economics (LSE). - Vol. 39.2001, 1, p. 119-138
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