Labor History Symposium

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes [1] As a consequence it is more critical in tone than a fuller and more even-handed assessment of Howell's contribution might have been. In what follows I concentrate on those elements of Howell's account which I find most problematic and not on those with which I have the most sympathy. [2] See, especially, Kerr, From Conflict to Consensus; Kerr and Marsh, ‘Explaining Thatcherism.’ [3] Hay, ‘Narrating Crisis.’ [4] Burk and Cairncross, ‘Goodbye Great Britain’; Tomlinson, ‘Economic Policy.’ [5] Thompson, The Conservatives’ Economic Policy, 30. [6] Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State. [1] Blair, ‘Foreword.’ [2] Blair, ‘Preface.’ [3] See, for example, Howell, ‘Constructing British Industrial Relations;’ and ‘Varieties of Capitalism.’ [4] See, in particular, Howell, ‘Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?’ [5] Howell, ‘From New Labour to No Labour?’ 215. [6] Smith and Morton, ‘New Labour's Reform of Britain's Employment Law,’ 135. [7] Streeck, ‘Beneficial Constraints.’ [8] For a full exposition, see Coates, Prolonged Labour, 178–184. [9] The super-rich figures are from the Office of National Statistics; the poverty figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (See The Guardian, 8 December 2004 and 12 January 2005.) [10] Data released by the TUC, 22 February 2005. [11] This, from a survey by the Schools Advisory Service, was reported in The Guardian, 13 December 2004. [12] Ward, ‘Hidden Stress of the Nursery Age.’ [1] Kahn-Freund, ‘Labour Law;’ for more recent discussions see McCarthy, ‘Rise and Fall;’ Deakin and Wilkinson, ‘Evolution.’ [2] For example, Hyman, Industrial Relations. [3] Flanders, ‘Tradition of Voluntarism.’ [4] Middlemas, Politics in Industrial Society. [5] Crouch, Industrial Relations and European State Traditions. [6] Poulantzas, Political Power and Social Classes. [7] Jessop, Capitalist State, 221; State Theory, 316. [8] Taylor, English History, 1. [9] Strinati, Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations. [10] Gamble, Free Economy and Strong State. [1] Hugh Clegg was a commissioner, as well as Kahn-Freund, but was not Director of Research, as stated on p. 102; that role was played by Bill McCarthy. [2] Fox's paper was published shortly afterwards as ‘Industrial Relations; A Social Critique of Pluralist Ideology.’ [3] Kahn-Freund, Labour Relations. [4] Ahlstrand, The Quest for Productivity. [5] Goldthorpe, ‘Industrial Relations.’ [6] See for instance many of the contributions in Hall and Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism. [7] See Kelly, ‘Social Movement Theory.’ See also Hamann and Kelly, ‘Unions as Political Actors.’ [1] Streeck and Thelen, Beyond Continuity. [2] Marsh et al., Postwar British Politics in Perspective.