1 Work, wages and the industrial relations tradition.- 2 The professions and their associations.- 3 The trade unions and their members.- 4 Employers, managers and the conduct of industrial relations.- 5 Whitley and the survival of collective bargaining.- 6 Deadlocked: arbitration, industrial action and pay review.- 7 Workplace collective bargaining.- 8 The market, collective bargaining and the survival of custom.- Names index.