Employee Relations: Volume 37 Issue 6

Change at work: feminisation, flexibilisation, fragmentation and financialisation

– The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the most important trends in work and employment over the past 50 years.

The changing nature of collective employment relations

The purpose of this paper is to survey developments in four aspects of collective employment relations (ER) since the mid-1960s: collective representation and organisation;…

Employment relations over the last 50 years: confrontation, consensus or neglect?

The purpose of this paper is to discuss significant changes in the concept and practice of employment relations over the last 50 years. It does so from both public policy and…

The changing face of work: insights from Acas

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolving role of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) across a 40-year period against a backdrop of…

The past and future of trade unionism

The purpose of this paper is to offer a broad practitioner’s overview of recent trade union history in the UK, and to investigate organised labour’s prospects in the decades…

Beyond consensus: the state and industrial relations in the United Kingdom from 1964 to 2014

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some of the problems and issues emerging from the changing role of the state in the UK’s industrial relations since 1964 – the year the…

The changing face of employment relations: equality and diversity

The purpose of this paper is to explore what has happened to the notion and reality of equal pay over the past 50 years, a period in which women have become the majority of trade…

Conflict: trends and forms of collective action

– The purpose of this paper is to review the state of knowledge on strikes and collective action.

The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014

– The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strike activity in the UK over the last 50 years.

Big bangs and cold wars: The British industrial relations tradition after Donovan (1965-2015)

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief and partial overview of some of the issues and authors that have dominated British industrial relations research since 1965. It is…

The changing face of employment relations over the last 50 years