This paper evaluates evidence from information provided by trade unions and employers' association in 1990-91 on the influence of the law on industrial disputes in the 1980s. A detailed analysis of four sectors - education, other public services, printing and publishing, engineering and...

This paper reports the results of one part of a research project designed to investigate the nature and extent of the impact of the labour legislation enacted between 1980 and 1990 on the conduct of industrial relations and the processes by which this has come about. Interviews were carried out...

In 1991 the government's programme of continuing labour law reform identified a new area for legal regulation: inter-union competition for members. For seventy years unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to carry out their recruitment and organisational activities in...

Both the government and the independent commentators have claimed that the labour legislation enacted between 1980 and 1990 has had a considerable impact on the conduct of industrial relations. The nature and extent of this impact and the process by which it has come about have usually either...

This paper reports the results of one part of a research project which investigated the nature and extent of the impact of the labour legislation enacted between 1980 and 1990 on the conduct of industrial relations and the processes by which this came about. Interviews were carried out with the...

It has been widely assumed that the labour legislation of the 1980s has been a major catalyst for change in British industrial relations. The nature and extent of the law's impact have usually been assumed and rarely been clearly articulated. This paper reports the results of part of a research...

This paper reports the results of one part of a research project designed to investigate the nature and extent of the impact of the labour legislation enacted between 1980 and 1990 on the conduct of industrial relations and the processes by which this has come about. Interviews were carried out...

The introduction of special constraints on the freedom of essential service workers and their unions to take and organise industrial action has been on the Conservative government's agenda for labour law reform for over a decade. So far, no proposals for legislation specifically directed to this...

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...