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The traditional academic approach to industrial relations has been to concentrate on the institutions of collective bargaining and the trade unions, and to locate rule-making at industry and national level. Certainly, until the early 1960s, such an approach was useful since most agreements were negotiated at the level of the formal institutions, and were generally observed at the workplace.
From time to time, I will draw extensively on work carried out at the University of Aston Management Centre Research Unit under the supervision of Ray Loveridge. Others who have contributed to this work include Geoff Broad, Sue Crighton, Paul Lloyd and Bruce Partridge.
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Marchington, M. (1979). Shop-floor Control and Industrial Relations. In: Purcell, J., Smith, R. (eds) The Control of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03356-0_6
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