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A Business and Labour History of Britain: Case studies of Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2011th Edition
Author(s): M. Richardson (Author), P. Nicholls
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: Aug. 31 2011
- Edition: 2011th
- Language: English
- Print length: 210 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349327913
- ISBN-13: 9781349327911
Book Description
By bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.
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About the Author
MIKE RICHARDSON is an Associate Fellow in Human Resource Management at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests include UK labour history, contemporary industrial relations, labour process and the sociology of work.
His recent co-authored publications includePartnership and the High Performance Workplace: Work and Employment Relations in the Aerospace Industry,The Reality of Partnership at Work,Flexibility at Work,Critical Developments in the International Automobile Industry, andWe Sell Our Time No More: Workers’ struggles against lean production in the British car industry.
His recent co-authored publications includePartnership and the High Performance Workplace: Work and Employment Relations in the Aerospace Industry,The Reality of Partnership at Work,Flexibility at Work,Critical Developments in the International Automobile Industry, andWe Sell Our Time No More: Workers’ struggles against lean production in the British car industry.
PETER NICHOLLS is Head of the Human Resource Management department, and an international coordinator for overseas programmes at the University of the West of England, UK. He has taught on the MBA Programme at the University of Shenzen, China. His research interests are in business and labour history, industrial sociology, the labour process and Bolivian labour markets. Peter co-edited the 1st and 2nd editions ofEmployee Relationsand his other publications include: ‘Bolivia: Between a Rock and a Hard Place’; inCapital and Class.