IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-19819-1_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Sociology of Industrial Conflict

In: Strikes

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Hyman

    (University of Warwick)

Abstract

As was seen in the first chapter, the strike is not a homogeneous phenomenon: it can vary from a massive and protracted confrontation to a half-hour protest by half a dozen workers. At the latter end of the scale it may be difficult to decide precisely what is to count as a strike. If a lunch-hour meeting of workers to discuss a grievance runs over into working time, are they technically on strike? Or if they refuse to start a new piecework job at the price offered, or disregard a disputed instruction, have they stopped work? Employers themselves differ in their classification of such instances: ‘“strikes” at one establishment may be “pauses for discussion” at another’ (Turner et al., 1967:52–3).

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Hyman, 1989. "The Sociology of Industrial Conflict," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Strikes, chapter 3, pages 55-76, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19819-1_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19819-1_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19819-1_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.