Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Labour Law 1867-1880; 2. Labour Law 1880-1900; 3. 1900-1914; 4. Responding to Taff Vale; 5. The Impact of War 1914-18; 6. The Aftermath of War 1918-21; 7. Labour Law Between the Wars; 8. The Impact of the Second World War; 9. Concluding Remarks; Index
Summary
In the UK the received wisdom has tended to be that, historically, British labour law was abstentionist or non-interventionist, best epitomised by the words of Lord Wedderburn who has written that ' ... collective bargaining has developed in a system which depends very little on the law, which is covered by very few decisions of the judges, and which is controlled by statute very little, if at all.'. It is not until we reach the Industrial Relations Act 1971 that we discover the first attempt in peacetime to move to a legally regulated system. However, the accuracy of this non-interventionist dep
