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Unions in Britain : merely on the margins or on the cusp of a comeback?

Gall, Gregor - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 323-340

This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse whether collectively they remain on the margins of influence in the economy and society or whether, given and because of the crisis of neoliberalism, they may be on the cusp of a...

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Let's Accept a Smaller Slice of a Shrinking Cake. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Irish Public Sector Unions in Crisis

Erne, Roland - 2013

At the time of writing, Irish unions are balloting their members about a new collective bargaining agreement for the public sector (Labour Relations Commission 2013). If a majority of union members in a majority of public sector unions within the Irish Congress of Trade Union (ICTU) endorses the...

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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain

Beynon, Huw - 2020

Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...

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The persistence of union membership within the coalfields of Britain

Beynon, Huw; Blakely, Helen; Bryson, Alex; Davies, Rhys - 2020

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Labour Law, Institutionalist Regulation and the Employing Organisation

Frazer, Andrew - 2015

constitutive regulation. This approach draws on the multidisciplinary field of ‘new’ regulation studies. The adoption of a … regulatory approach to law represents a significant departure in legal scholarship, since the idea of regulation requires … legal research. This paper examines new regulation theory and its application to the field of labour law. While some aspects …

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Four Centuries of British Economic Growth : The Roles of Technology and Population

Madsen, Jakob B. - 2010

Using long historical data for Britain over the period 1620-2006, this paper seeks to explain the importance of innovative activity, population growth and other factors in inducing the transition from the Malthusian trap to the post-Malthusian growth regime. Furthermore, the paper tests the...

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Innovation, Technological Change and the British Agricultural Revolution

Ang, James; Banerjee, Rajabrata; Madsen, Jakob B. - 2015

Theory, historiography and empirical evidence suggest that agriculture is the key to economic development. This paper examines the extent to which productivity advances in British agriculture in the period 1620-1850 were driven by technological progress. Measuring technology by patents and new...

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Efficiency, Depth and Growth : Quantitative Implications of Finance and Growth Theory

Trew, Alex William - 2007

We develop a parsimonious finance and endogenous growth model with microeconomic frictions in entrepreneurship and a role for credit constraints. We demonstrate that though an efficiency-growth relation will always exist, the efficiency-depth-growth relation may not. This has implications for...

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Regulation, migration and the implications for industrial relations

MacKenzie, Robert; Martínez Lucio, Miguel - In: The journal of industrial relations 61 (2019) 2, pp. 176-197

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Private equity in the UK : job regulation and trade unions

Clark, Ian - In: The journal of industrial relations : the journal of … 51 (2009) 4, pp. 489-500

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