The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace

by Brian Towers

Book Overview

This comparative study shows how, since the early 1980s, British and American employees have experienced a critical weakening of their defenses against the growing managerial prerogative and have borne a greater part of the business and organizational risk. The author explains the growth in this "representation gap" primarily through the withdrawal of public policy support for collective bargaining. He argues that this development has serious implications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198293194
• ISBN13: 9780198293194
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"