Smithfield meat market is one of the great sights of London. The TGWU labour supply pre-entry closed shop is correspondingly amazing. It incorporates self-employed as well as employed workers. There are a dozen occupational categories, yet all but one are engaged in the movement of meat and...

Collective industrial relations are crumbling. Alternatives include employee involvement and authoritarian forms of workplace governance. Uses evidence from the third workplace industrial relations survey to analyse associations between these different types of governance and workplace performance.