Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

Based on thesis, Oxford University. Bibliographical footnotes.

Study of the development of the Closed Shop in the industrial sector in the UK - comments on related labour legislation and judicial decisions; discusses relationships between the decline of the pre-entry shop, computerization and new management attitudes; examines social theories on the growth of the post-entry Closed Shop, and its impact on personnel management and labour relations between trade unions and managers; considers implications for the interests of individual workers. Bibliography.