First Published in 1981, Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations is based on data obtained in observational research amongst managers, shop stewards and workers, examines the informal processes by which accommodations are or are not, reached by managers and workers. Since the publication of the Donovan Report industrial relations research has increasingly moved away from studies of formal procedures and institutions and focused more on informal custom and practice. In this book, the authors develop a theory of workplace rule making, and argue that it is in negotiations over such detailed and often minor daily industrial issues that the relationship between capital and labour is worked out. This book is a must read for scholars of industrial economics and management studies.

Archie Curwen is your typical misguided teen with a troubled past and an attitude to match. Life in the rural town of Madison, Ohio has always been simple. That is, until the power disappears across town, and a string of mysterious events shatters the relative peace. Archie and his two best friends, JP and Addison, soon discover that a deadly virus outbreak is affecting their community. Confined to a citywide quarantine, the trio eventually learn the horrifying extent of the virus. The situation escalates rapidly when a national response is triggered that may lead to the ultimate destruction of everything they hold dear. With only seven days to find answers and render justice, the friends are thrust into a fight against time, the truth, and their lives.