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There are few, if any, areas of industrial relations that have not been subject to major change over the past fifteen years. The decline in union membership, the development of human resource management strategies and the introduction of a range of legislation affecting the operation of trade unions and industrial conflict have been extensively debated. The decentralization of collective bargaining is of equal moment and is linked to many of them.

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© 1993 Michael P. Jackson, John W. Leopold and Kate Tuck

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Jackson, M.P., Leopold, J.W., Tuck, K. (1993). Introduction. In: Decentralization of Collective Bargaining. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22799-0_1

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