Trade unions and human resource management in Britain: Case study evidence from the public sector, utilities and manufacturing

Employee Relations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 10-27

  Fairbrother, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Manufacturing industry; Public sector; Trade unions; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986169837     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459610151439     Document Type: Article

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