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A personal appreciation
Author(s) -
Monks Lord John
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12086
Subject(s) - creativity , front (military) , psychology , law , sociology , political science , law and economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
As a senior official of the TUC and then the G eneral S ecretary, the author worked with Bill M c C arthy from the late 1970s and was able to observe B ill's creativity and agility as a mediator in industrial disputes. In this appreciation, he tells some stories of B ill's career which evoke the memories of an era when industrial disputes were front page news and B ill was often asked to help resolve them.