Desperate Responses
Richard Hyman, 5 April 1984
Industry, Unions and Government: Twenty-One Years of NEDC
by Keith Middlemas.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £17.50, January 1984,0 333 35121 5 Show More
by Keith Middlemas.
Macmillan, 240 pp., £17.50, January 1984,
Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73
by J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy and G.P. Redman.
Allen and Unwin, 448 pp., £20, November 1983,0 04 331093 1 Show More
by J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy and G.P. Redman.
Allen and Unwin, 448 pp., £20, November 1983,
Picketing: Industrial Disputes, Tactics and the Law
by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles.
Routledge, 223 pp., £5.95, April 1983,0 7100 9534 1 Show More
by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles.
Routledge, 223 pp., £5.95, April 1983,
“... pages of the conclusion lamely attempting to consider their interaction. Durcan, McCarthy and Redman are enthused mainly by the task of testing the thesis of the Donovan Commission of 1965-8 (of which McCarthy was Research Director): that strikes were largely a reflection of fragmented negotiating procedures, and in particular of autonomous piecework ... ”