Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry

by John Foster, Matthias Beck, Charles Woolfson

Book Overview

This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts to contain subsequent, unwelcome regulatory interference, and examines the fraught history of trade unionism in the offshore industry, the conflict over health and safety, and the sometimes brutal struggle over union rights as the workforce attempted to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044305357X
• ISBN13: 9780720123500
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"