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Volume 6, Issue 5
1 May 1984
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Review Article| May 01 1984

Multinational Corporations and Industrial Relations in the UK Available to Purchase

J. Hamill
J. Hamill
Research Fellow in International Business, Strathclyde University
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7069
Print ISSN: 0142-5455
© MCB UP Limited
1984
Employee Relations: The International Journal (1984) 6 (5): 12–16.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055039

The growth in the number of multinational companies in the UK (in 1980 employing 16 per cent of all people in manufacturing industry) raises a number of industrial relations issues such as: where are the decisions regarding labour issues made? The author discusses the implications with regard to trade unions and industrial relations.

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Industrial relations, Multinational companies
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