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Industrial Democracy in Britain
Mark Langhammer
Director of the National Education Union (formerly Association of Teachers and Lecturers), Northern Ireland.

This article first appeared in Soundings 67, Winter 2017
https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/67

Introduction - a renewed debate
Which way for Britain - High Road or Low Road?
The reticence of the British trade union tradition
A new impetus from the TUC
Continued Union reticence
Industrial democracy in Europe
How it works in Germany
Unions and social partnership
In Ireland and Scotland

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