By comparing US and Britain, the author makes clear that in the development of industrial relations policies, ideology was secondary to economic realities - the structure of business and the market system. He says that in the US, large-scale corporations quickly rose to dominance which was not the case with Britain.
By comparing US and Britain, the author makes clear that in the development of industrial relations policies, ideology was secondary to economic reali...
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system...
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival mater...
