The Closed Shop in British IndustryStudy of the development of the Closed Shop in the industrial sector in the UK - comments on related labour legislation and judicial decisions; discusses relationships between the decline of the pre-entry shop, computerization and new management attitudes; examines social theories on the growth of the post-entry Closed Shop, and its impact on personnel management and labour relations between trade unions and managers; considers implications for the interests of individual workers. Bibliography. |
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advantages areas ASLEF Association ballot bargaining benefits Britain British Rail cent closed-shop arrangements closed-shop demands closed-shop growth closed-shop population compulsory union membership condition of employment Council craft union Department of Employment dispute dockers dockwork Dunn EEF survey employers Employment Act Employment Act 1982 engineering evidence example existing non-members expulsion extent favour Fire Brigades Union firms flag of convenience formal closed-shop agreements free riders Gennard Greater London Council hard theory HMSO incomes policy individual industrial action Industrial Relations Act industrial-relations introduced involved issue labour legislation London majority managerial manual McCarthy McCarthy's NALGO National Graphical Association nationalized industries negotiations non-manual non-unionists operation ports post-entry closed practice problems procedures railway rank and file recruitment refused registered sector secure ships shop stewards shop's shops significant soft theory SOGAT solidarity stewards strike trade unionists trade unions unfair dismissal union density union members union officials white-collar workers workforce