Author Description

The last decade has seen profound changes in the law governing the rights to strike and to take industrial action in Britain. A series of Acts of Parliament and attendant codes of practice have built up a complex web of restrictions and regulations, moving the law into the center stage of industrial conflict. Legislating for Conflict presents the first comprehensive account of how this transformation of industrial-conflict law has come about, by analyzing the development of the new laws from the sources and events which first fired governmental concerns, through the policy-making process, to the Parliamentary passage of each piece of legislation. Auerbach sets these changes within the context of the shifts in the political and economic climate, and in attitudes towards industrial conflict over the post-war years. The book will interest students and scholars in the areas of industrial relations, history, labor law and economics, as well as trade unionists and journalists.