Governments, Managers and Industrial Relations by Anthony Ferner

Governments, Managers and Industrial Relations by Anthony Ferner

Faced with economic crisis and escalating public expenditure, governments throughout Europe have become increasingly concerned with the role of public enterprises in the economy. There have been growing demands for greater efficiency and commercialism in these enterprises. This book explores the ways in which public enterprise industrial relations have responded to the resulting changes in their political and economic environment. Using British and Spanish railways as examples, the author sets out to show how these general tendencies have been modified by different traditions, government ideologies and industrial relations and institutions, and by political bargaining or exchange between governments, managements and trade unions. The book aims to provide an exploration of the distinctive logic of the public sector, a relatively neglected area of modern industrial relations, with implications for current policy concerns such as privatization.

Ferner, Anthony: - Fiction. Anthony Ferner was professor of international human resource management at De Montfort University. He retired in 2014. He has published many works of non-fiction, mainly about the behaviour of multinational companies. His short story The Cat It Is That Dies appeared in the anthology The Sea In Birmingham, Tindal Street Fiction Group, 2013. This story became the basis of WINEGARDEN (Holland Park Press, 2015) his debut novel. Another of Anthony Ferner's short stories, The tanks, was shortlisted for the Irish Times summer short story competition in 2014. His second novella, Inside the Bone Box, was published by Fairlight Books in 2018. LIFE IN TRANSLATION (Holland Park Press, 2019) is his latest book. He has been a member of the Tindal Street Fiction Group, based in Birmingham, since 2010.

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ISBN 13	9780631159780
ISBN 10	0631159789
Title	Governments, Managers and Industrial Relations
Author	Anthony Ferner
Series	Warwick Studies In Industrial Relations
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1988-09-22
Number of pages	256
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