ERfinalAckersIJHRM2012.pdf (781.58 kB)
Rethinking the employment relationship: a neo-pluralist critique of British industrial relations orthodoxy
journal contribution
posted on 2014-06-25, 12:41 authored by Peter AckersRadical pluralism, the mainstream perspective for British and European industrial relations, centres on a Marxian, sociological conception of the employment relationship, which structures explanations of power and conflict. This theoretical critique stresses the historical specificity of the experience of work and the explanatory limitations of the employment relationship. The intellectual history of radical pluralism is traced from Fox ((1974), Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations, London: Faber) to Edwards ((1995, 2003), ‘The Employment Relationship,’ in Industrial Relations, ed. P. Edwards, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1–36) and Blyton and Turnbull ((1994, 1998, 2004), The Dynamics of Employee Relations, Basingstoke: Macmillan). Five objections to the radical-pluralist employment relationship are outlined and an alternative, neo-pluralist sociological and historical perspective is sketched.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
The International Journal of Human Resource ManagementVolume
on line firstPages
1 - 18Citation
ACKERS, P., 2014. Rethinking the employment relationship: a neo-pluralist critique of British industrial relations orthodoxy. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25 (18), pp.2608-2625.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)
Publication date
2014Notes
This is the submitted manuscript version of the paper. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2012.667429ISSN
0958-5192Publisher version
Language
- en