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THIS chapter is mainly concerned with an assessment of Ross and Hartman’s conclusions in the light of more recent data and different measures of strike activity. As I have stated, Britain and Scandinavia will be the major focus of interest, but strike statistics from the United States and France will also be presented initially in order to place the former societies in a wider comparative perspective. The first task, however, is to outline briefly some of the persistent and seemingly intractable methodological problems which face the student of industrial conflict.
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Eric Hobsbawm, ‘The Machine Breakers’ in Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour (London, 1964).
L. Taylor and P. Walton, ‘Industrial Sabotage’ in Images of Deviance, ed. S. Cohen (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971).
H. A. Turner et al ., Labour Relations in the Motor Industry (London, 1967) p. 131.
J. W. Kuhn, Bargaining in Grievance Settlement(New York, 1961).
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Ingham, G.K. (1974). Patterns of Strike Activity. In: Strikes and Industrial Conflict. Studies in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01454-5_3
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