This thesis examines the current practice of industrial relations, in relation to workers' welfare, with particular reference to three kecamatan (sub-district) of Tangerang, West Java. This study begins by looking at Dunlop's systems theory of industrial relations, which defines…
The newspaper journalist has an important part to play in modernsociety. One of the influences bearing upon the effectiveness withwhich he plays his part is his economic relationship with his employer,the newspaper proprietor.An analysis is made of the British newspaper industry…
This thesis has sought to achieve four related objectives in its analysis of the worker co-operative movement from the 1820s until the present. Firstly, we have sought to re-establish the importance of moral precepts in determining the agenda of the political economy of co-opera…
This is an investigation of the trade union role in the Social Contract incomes policies in Britain during the 1970s. In the context of the general political economy of the period, the study looks at the development in the early 1970s of an accord between the Trades Union Congre…
The main objective of the thesis is to analyse the development and structure of civil service careers in small and large states, taking Estonia and the United Kingdom as case studies. In the first part of the thesis, different disciplinary perspectives on careers are examined, i…
This thesis is based around two studies in the West Midlands lock industry. It was carried I out within a broad ethnographic paradigm and focuses on the voices of those working on the shopfloor as a means of tapping into change and continuity in perceptions of the employment rel…
Many psychiatric nurses working in the community are changing their occupational base. They are working increasingly as members of a mental health multi-disciplinary team. This is a report on aspects of the role of the psychiatric nurse working in such teams. Freidson's professi…