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A New Theory of Industrial Relations

People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism

By: Conor Cradden

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A New Theory of Industrial Relations

People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism

By: Conor Cradden

Most existing theoretical approaches to industrial relations and human resources management (IR/HRM) build their analyses and policy prescriptions on one of two foundational assumptions. They assume either that conflict between workers and employers is the natural and inevitable state of affairs; or that under normal circumstances, cooperation is what employers can and should expect from workers. By contrast, A New Theory of Industrial Relations: People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism proposes a theoretical framework for IR/HRM that treats the existence of conflict or cooperation at work as an outcome that needs to be explained rather than an initial presupposition. By identifying the social and organizational roots of reasoned, positively chosen cooperation at work, this framework shows what is needed to construct a genuinely consensual form of capitalism. In broader terms, the book offers a critical theory of the governance of work under capitalism. ‘The governance of work’ refers to the structures of incentives and sanctions, authority, accountability and direct and representative participation within and beyond the workplace by which decisions about the content, conditions and remuneration of work are made, applied, challenged and revised. The most basic proposition made in the book is that work will be consensual—and, hence, that employees will actively and willingly cooperate with the implementation of organizational plans and strategies—when the governance of work is substantively legitimate. Although stable configurations of economic and organizational structures are possible in the context of a bare procedural legitimacy, it is only where work relationships are recognized as right and just that positive forms of cooperation will occur. The analytic purpose of the theory is to specify the conditions under which substantive legitimacy will arise. Drawing in particular on the work of Alan Fox, Robert Cox and Jürgen Habermas, the book argues that whether workers fight against, tolerate or willingly accept the web of relationships that constitutes the organization depends on the interplay between three empirically variable factors: the objective day-to-day experience of incentives, constraints and obligations at work; the subjective understanding of work as a social relationship; and the formal institutional structure of policies, rules and practices by which relationships at work are governed.

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Repoliticizing Management

A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy

By: Conor Cradden

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Repoliticizing Management

A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy

By: Conor Cradden

Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas's social theory for the critical study of management, organization and employment, this book proposes a new definition of legitimate corporate action; based on Habermas's principles of communicative rationality and discourse ethics. Systematic in its application of the full range of Habermas's arguments to management and economics, it uses insights from these disciplines to inform a critique and reconstruction of Habermas's work. The result is a distinctive new conceptualization of the relationship between social interaction and economic structures and institutions. Concluding that corporate legitimacy - the successful combination of market economics with distributive and environmental justice - is only possible in the context of deliberative forms of democratic workplace governance, the findings of this work have serious implications for our understanding of corporate social responsibility and of the part managers and employees can play in putting it into practice.

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A New Theory of Industrial Relations

People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism

By: Conor Cradden

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People, Markets and Organizations after Neoliberalism

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Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK

How the Labour Movement Lost the Argument

By: C. Cradden

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Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK

How the Labour Movement Lost the Argument

By: C. Cradden

From attempts to control inflation in the 1970s, through the reforms of the Thatcher years, to the rise and fall of New Labour, this book shows how different theories and conceptual models have been critical to the development of industrial relations in the UK.

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Repoliticizing Management

A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy

By: Conor Cradden

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A New Theory of Industrial Relations

A New Theory of Industrial Relations

Repoliticizing Management

Repoliticizing Management

A New Theory of Industrial Relations

A New Theory of Industrial Relations

Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK

Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK

Repoliticizing Management

Repoliticizing Management

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