Management control and union power: a study of labour relations in coal-mining

Abstract

Part 1 The control of work: the day-wage system reliance on incentives. Part 2 The control of local pay-bargaining: the reform of industrial relations reformed industrial relations in practice. Part 3 Workplace trade-unionism and the control of labour: the bureaucratization of the rank and file the interests of the workplace leadership. Part 4 Trade union power in the workplace: at the frontier of control - the power of the NUM in collieries union power in the workplace - determinants and consequences. Part 5 National industrial relations: the return to decline - national industrial relations in coal mining 1974-1985 the post-strike settlement - industrial relations in coal mining 1985-1987. Appendices: the decision list used in the power measure the interview schedule used for the power measure.