STEEL: A CLASSIC CASE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CHANGE IN BRITAIN*
研究了英国钢铁公司在市场停滞、产能过剩背景下，通过地方协议引入灵活性和分权化，实现工作重组并减少工人抵制的案例。
ABSTRACT The interrelations between the search for greater flexibility and the decentralization of industrial relations have received comparatively little attention. The developments within British Steel over the past decade indicate how these two developments can interact. Against a background of a stagnant market for steel, overcapacity, changing state attitudes towards the nationalized sector and a national steel strike, management at British Steel have used local agreements as a key vehicle for introducing widespread restructuring and changes in work organization. In particular, the tying of local bonus payments to achieved performance and to changes in work organization has enabled management to introduce fundamental changes to traditional work arrangements with little worker or union resistance.