Paul Edwards 
Industrial Relations 
Theory and Practice

This is a completely revised and updated second edition of the acclaimed Industrial Relations. The new book gives particular attention throughout to the effects of international and European developments on British Industrial Relations.

Table of Content

List of Figures and Tables.

List of Common Abbreviations.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. The Employment Relationship and the Field of
Industrial Relations (Paul Edwards).

2. The Historical Evolution of British IR (Richard
Hyman).

3. The Labour Market: History, Structure and Prospects
(Peter Nolan and Gary Slater).

4. Foreign Multinationals and Industrial Relations Innovation in
Britain (Anthony Ferner).

5. The State: Economic Management and Incomes Policy(Colin
Crouch).

6. Labour Law and Industrial Relations: A New Settlement?
(Linda Dickens and Mark Hall).

7. Management: Systems, Structures and Strategy (Keith Sisson
and Paul Marginson).

8. The Management of Pay as the Influence of Collective
Bargaining Diminishes (William Brown, Paul Marginson and Janet
Walsh).

9. Trade Union Organization (Jeremy Waddington).

10. Employee Representation: Shop Stewards and the New
Legal Framework (Michael Terry).

11. Industrial Relations in the Public Sector (Stephen Bach
and David Winchester).

12. Indivisualism and the Collectivism in Industrial Relations
(Ian Kessler and John Purcell).

13. New Forms of Work Organization: Still Limites, Still
Controlled but Still Welcome? (John F. Geary).

14. Managing without Unions: The Sources and Limitations of
Individualism (Trevor Colling).

15. Training (Ewart Keep and Helen Rainbird).

16. The Industrial Relations of a Diverse Workforce(Sonia
Liff).

17. Low Pay and the National Minimum Wage (Jill Rubery and
Paul Edwards).

18. Employment Relations in Small Firms (Richard
Scase).

19. Industrial Relations, HRM and Performance (Peter Nolan
and Kathy O’donnell).

20. Concluding Comments (Paul Edwards).

Index.

About the author

Paul Edwards is Professor of Industrial Relations and Deputy Director, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick, UK. His previous publications include Conflict at Work (1986), Managing the Factory (1987) and Attending to Work (1993). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and edited the journal Work, Employment and Society from 1996 to 1998.