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Putting Partnership into Practice in Britain

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The paper reviews industrial relations developments in Britain during 1999 by assessing how New Labour’s policy commitment to encouraging ‘partnership’ is developing in practice. After a discussion of the Employment Relations Act, it considers the wider influence of European legislation. It then describes how partnership approaches have been developing in trade union policy and industrial practice. This leads to an analysis of the operation of two explicit ‘social partnership’ institutions, ACAS and the Low Pay Commission. The paper ends with a consideration of the developing arguments at the ILO and WTO over international labour standards.

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  • William Brown, 2000. "Putting Partnership into Practice in Britain," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 38(2), pages 299-316, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:38:y:2000:i:2:p:299-316
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00164
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    1. Stephen Wood & John Goddard, 1999. "The Statutory Union Recognition Procedure in the Employment Relations Bill: A Comparative Analysis," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 37(2), pages 203-245, June.
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    2. William Brown, 2009. "The Process of Fixing the British National Minimum Wage, 1997–2007," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 47(2), pages 429-443, June.
    3. Addison, John T. & Siebert, W. Stanley, 2002. "Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K," IZA Discussion Papers 562, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Ian Roper & Philip James & Paul Higgins, 2005. "Workplace partnership and public service provision," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 19(3), pages 639-649, September.
    5. White, Michael & Bryson, Alex, 2006. "Unions, job reductions and job security guarantees: the experience of British employees," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 19841, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. John McIlroy, 2008. "Ten Years of New Labour: Workplace Learning, Social Partnership and Union Revitalization in Britain," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 46(2), pages 283-313, June.
    7. Peter Butler & Linda Glover & Olga Tregaskis, 2011. "‘When the Going Gets Tough’ . . . : Recession and the Resilience of Workplace Partnership," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 49(4), pages 666-687, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law

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