The Development of Industrial Relations in Britain (1973) examines the evolution of the central institution of the British industrial relations system – collective bargaining. This book looks at collective bargaining through the most significant joint attempts made by trade unionists and employers to understand and improve it.
The Development of Industrial Relations in Britain (1973) examines the evolution of the central institution of the British industrial relations system – collective bargaining. This book traces changes to collective bargaining, and therefore industrial relations, through the most significant joint attempts made by trade unionists and employers to understand and improve it. These attempts were through the Industrial Council (1911–13), the Whitley Committee, Report and Scheme (1916–39), the National Industrial Conference (1919–21) and the Conference on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations (1928–9).
Part
1. The Industrial Council, 191113
1. The Origins of the Industrial
Council
2. The Industrial Council
3. The Council Assessed Part
2. The Whitley
Committee, Report and Scheme, 191639
4. The Origins of the Scheme
5. The
Whitley Committee, the First Interim Report and its Reception
6. The Joint
Industrial Councils Scheme
7. The Establishment and Organisation of the
J.I.C.s
8. Understanding Work of the Councils
9. The J.I.C.s as Full and
Efficient Collective Bargaining Agents: Arguments and Procedures
10. The
J.I.C.s as Full but Less Efficient Bargaining Agents: Arguments and
Procedures
11. The J.I.C.s as Partial Collective Bargaining Agents
12. Other
Activities of the Councils
13. The Whitley Councils and Government Policy on
Industrial Relations
14. The Whitley Scheme Assessed Part
3. The National
Industrial Conference, 191921
15. The Origins of the Conference
16. The
Conference and its Provisional Joint Committee
17. The Conference Assessed
Part
4. The Conference on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations,
19289
18. The Origins of the Conference
19. The Conference and its Joint
Subcommittee, 19289
20. The C.I.R.R. Assessed
21. The Evolution of the Norms
and Institutions of Collective Bargaining, 191139