Examines the effects of the crisis on employment conditions, job loss, labour relations, and the preferred socially responsible responses. Includes the questionnaires, addressed to management and unions, on changed working conditions, flexible work practice, role of collective agreements, and...

Reviews the relationships between management and employees in the industry so as to better understand their responses to the crisis that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11.

In response to the challenge of low costs airlines, several full service carriers (FSCs) around the world have created their own low cost subsidiary. In the UK, two successful examples of this strategy are bmibaby (bmi) and Go (British Airways). To compete with their low cost rivals, these...

When compared to the publicly owned ports, the financial and economic performance of the U.K.'s privatized ports has failed to live up to expectations. Any improvement in service to port users in recent years has arisen from employment deregulation (the abolition of the National Dock Labour...

When the European Commission proposed a Directive On Market Access to Port Services in February 2001, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) issued a declaration of war on Europe's waterfront. To protect established terms and conditions of employment in the port transport...

Since the publication of Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? in 1984, labor economists have accumulated a wealth of empirical evidence on the economic effects of trade unions. Unfortunately, these studies tend to be long on description but short on theoretical explanation. Economic models of...

This paper presents a simple model of industrial conflict that differs from previous economic models in that it recognizes the distinction between strikes and other forms of industrial conflict. The model is estimated against data relating to Britain's dock industry. The results provide evidence...

Consistent with government policy in other sectors of the economy, employment arrangements in Britain's ports have recently been deregulated (1989) and the remaining public sector por ts privatized (1991 onwards), but a comparison with state policies in other European countries suggests that...