The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict : Lessons from Ford (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Friedman, Henry/ Meredeen, Sander

Routledge（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032848082
• DDC分類 331.89282920942175

Full Description

The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict (1980) focuses on the workings of industrial relations in the British motor industry, presenting the first joint retrospective analysis of industrial relations in a major multinational. The book includes a closely documented account of the Ford Sewing Machinists' strike for equal pay and tells the inside story of that dispute, analysing its impact on the coming of equal pay and Britain's new sex discrimination legislation. It assesses the consequences of the dispute for workers, management and unions at Ford, and then traces its repercussions on Britain's industrial relations in the 1970s, down to the fall of the Labour Government in May 1979. A detailed explanation is given of the concealed 'learning process' which goes on below the surface of every system of industrial relations, whether at factory, company, industrial or national level.

Contents

Part 1. The Evolution of Industrial Relations at Ford 1. A Management View 2. A Shop-Floor View Part 2. The Sewing-Machinists' Dispute 3. The Dispute Seen Through Management's Eyes 4. The Dispute Seen Through Shop Steward's Eyes Part 3. First Dialogue 5. The Dispute Analysed Part 4. Internal Consequences of the Dispute 6. A Management View 7. A Shop-Floor View Part 5. External Consequences of the Dispute 8. A Joint View Part 6. Second Dialogue 9. The Learning Process in Industrial Conflict