This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate "labour movement" class cohesion. Instead of a "forward march" to...

Books reviewed: Robert Taylor. Social Democratic Trade Unionism: An Agenda for Action. Reviewed by Peter Ackers Mark Freedland. The Personal Employment Contract. Reviewed by Ann Blair J. O'Reilly (ed.), Regulating Working-time Transitions in Europe. Reviewed by Paul Blyton Huw Beynon, Damian...

This article draws together two aspects of union renewal strategy: merger and increasing women's involvement and activism. The article utilises a case study of the National Union of the Lock and Metal Workers (NULMW), a small union that appears to have successfully promoted women's involvement...

This article reflects critically on the history of the British pluralist industrial relations (IR) paradigm, from its foundation by Flanders and Clegg at Oxford in the 1950s, through its development and consolidation in both public policy and academic circles. No sooner was the paradigm firmly...

Purpose This paper presents an historical reconstruction of the radicalisation of Alan Fox, the industrial sociologist and a detailed analysis of his early historical and sociological writing in the classical pluralist phase. Design/methodology/approach An intellectual history, including...