Britain Views Our Industrial Relations.

Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004

Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004 There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. WIRS80 marked a radical departure in the study of industrial relations for two reasons. First, following in the footsteps of a small number of survey ...

Industrial Mental Health in Britain

Up to the second world war, the industrial medical services in this country had paid a great deal more attention to the field of physical health and illness than to psychiatry, and much progress had certainly been made. Various occupational diseases had been discovered and some diminished, either by better conditions of work, by eliminating dangers, by better selection of work, or by earlier de...

Employment relations and industrial welfare in Britain: business ethics versus labor markets.

Perspectives on employer-employee relations have undergone significant changes, and business historians can daim a substantial contribution to the subject's development. What was once the study of trades unions and collective bargaining was transformed into an investigation of shop-floor organization and the regulation of employment. The focus moved to the firm, its objectives and its capabilit...

Object Views of Relations

This paper investigates the problem of integration between relational and object-oriented databases. We discuss an approach based on class and attribute mappings and show how OQL, the ODMG query language, can be embedded in a set of primitives of a mapping language to serve as a basis for object-relational data integration. We then describe the technique used in the implementation of a prototyp...

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