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...