J. E. T. Eldridge - Industrial Disputes

THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION

In 18 Volumes

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations

by
J. E. T. ELDRIDGE

First published 1968 by
Routledge

Reprinted 1998,2000,2001, 2002
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1968 J. E. T. Eldridge

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Industrial Disputes
ISBN 0-415-17676-X
The Sociology of Work and Organization: 18 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17829-0
The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17838-X

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(Co-Author: G. C. Cameron)

(Co-Author G. Roberts)

APPENDIX A
The Sociology of Work: Trends and Counter-trends

APPENDIX B
An Example of a Demarcation Procedural and Apportionment Agreement

APPENDIX C
Status in Steel: A Group Discussion

APPENDIX D
The Shop Steward's Role: A Comment on the North East of England

The impetus to write this book came initially from involvement in an industrial relations research project sponsored by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and undertaken by the Business Research Unit at the University of Durham (196164). The focus then was upon the elucidation of points of friction existing between management, unions and men in three major North-East industries: engineering, shipbuilding and steel. While these particular essays are written from a sociological perspective, I hope that they bear the marks of the stimulating inter-disciplinary discussions that took place in the course of the Durham research. I refer here particularly to economists Gordon Cameron, Alan Odber and Geoffrey Roberts and psychologist Charles Baker. Two of the essays in this volume () are in fact joint ventures and I record here my thanks to Gordon Cameron and Geoffrey Roberts for permission to publish them.

A number of academic colleagues have read and commented help-fully on these essays while they were still in manuscript form. They are Professors N. Elias, R. Fletcher and W. J. H. Sprott. To them I should like to add the name of publisher Norman Franklin, not least for his injunction to keep the text as jargon-free as possible. Other colleagues have commented on particular essays in one or other of their several drafts and I am glad to have this opportunity of thanking them. They are Alan Odber ().