| Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000 Subjects: Labor unions -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Industrial relations -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Labor movement -- great Britain -- History -- 20th century; The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? Chris Howell is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France (Princeton), and numerous articles on British and French industrial relations and labor politics. |