Need an argumentative essay on Industrial Relations Law. Needs to be 10 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages A central problem in attempts to test empirically generalized mo

Need an argumentative essay on Industrial Relations Law. Needs to be 10 pages. Please no plagiarism.

A central problem in attempts to test empirically generalized models of an industrial relations system mirrors those encountered in the application of generalized theories of the capitalist state. The process of particularization sustains structural mechanisms within an industrial relations system that reproduce limitations in the institutional structure of a particular state. Hence, patterns of regulation legitimize the centralized power of the capitalist class yet are likely to operate in potentially contradictory manner. Partial access to the state through a voluntary system of industrial relations has, in the UK, sustained the historically embedded yet short-term interest of many employers. However, collective laissez-faire and voluntarism have positioned trade unions and collective bargaining as easy targets in proximate explanations of poor post-war economic performance. Collective laissez-faire appeared functional – it helped secured post-war recovery - yet contradictory. in the context of full employment, it appeared inflationary. More significantly, collective laissez-faire is functional because it is an institutional an embodiment of the process of particularization in the UK state.The extent of industrial action: In the UK, official statistics on the use of industrial sanctions relate only to strikes. They measure three dimension of strike activity – their number (how frequent they are), their size (number of workers involved) and their duration (the number of working days lost).

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state. Hence, patterns of regulation legitimize the centralized power of the capitalist class yet are

likely to operate in potentially contradictory manner. Partial access to the state through a

voluntary system of industrial relations has, in the UK, sustained the historically embedded yet

short-term interest of many employers. However, collective laissez faire and voluntarism has

positioned trade unions and collective bargaining as easy targets in proximate explanations of

poor post-war economic performance. Collective laissez faire appeared functional - it helped

secured post-war recovery - yet contradictory. in the context of full employment it appeared

inflationary. More significantly, collective laissez faire is functional because it is an institutional

embodiment of the process of particularization in the UK state.

The extent of industrial action:

In the UK, official statistics on the use of industrial sanctions relate

only to strikes. They measure three dimension of strike activity - their number (how frequent

they are), their size (number of workers involved) and their duration (the number of working

days lost). This last measure is often distorted by a few big strikes. For example, in 1979 an

engineering industry- wide strike accounted for 55 percent of the 29.5 million working days lost

in that year. In 2000 the number of working days lost in the UK was 499,00. However, disputes

still happen - for example, the series of one day stoppages in 2002 on the railways over the

widening of pay differentials between drivers, who were in short supply, and other railway

employees.