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The Representation Gap - Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace (Hardcover)
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The Representation Gap - Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace (Hardcover)
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For up to twenty years after the Second World War both in Britain
and the US boasted `mature' industrial relations systems supported
by their governments and, allowing for some differences in degree,
by most employers. Since the early 1980s, these systems have been
critically weakened. This comparative industrial relations text
explains this development primarily through the withdrawal of
public policy support and, mainly in Britain's case, its
replacement by government hostility. An important consequence of
this is the erosion of the effective defence and representation of
employee interests as the managerial prerogative has been allowed,
even encouraged, to extend its authority in the workplace. The
`representation gap' has grown so that six out of seven US
employees, and two out of three British, are not represented at
work, at the same time as there has been increasing discussion of
`team' working etc. This could be a serious negative development
for economic performance. A growing body of research is indicating
that employers who bargain with trade unions, or enter into
partnerships with them, are likely to be more productive than their
non-union competitors. More importantly, the size of the
representation gap presents a clear denial of the democratic rights
of citizens, in their role as employees, with potentially serious
implications for social stability both within and beyond the
workplace.
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