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Industrial relations in local government – pluralism, social action and the Marxist approaches, corporatism, fiscal crisis; management under pressure – the structure of local authority industrial relations, the central-local government relationship, the negotiability of change under the fiscal crisis; unions under pressure; radical Conservatism and the unions – the departure of the Chief Executive, the redundancy dispute, the first administration and privatization, housing, the building society dispute; radical Labourism and the unions – the low pay issue, decentralization, the strike, the rate-capping crisis; crises of managerial authority – coping with environmental pressures, sustaining the negotiability of change, differentiating management roles and responsibilities; the unions and the management of discontent – responding to change, relating to management, managing discontent; managing under pressure – the negotiation of change – policy versus trust, from fragmented management to differentiated management, reclaiming the rights of management?
