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The Tories and employment law in Northern Ireland: seeing unions in a different light?
Author(s) -
Cradden Terry
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1468-2338.1993.tb00660.x
Subject(s) - benignity , ideology , orthodoxy , feeling , northern ireland , period (music) , government (linguistics) , political science , law , political economy , sociology , history , politics , psychology , social psychology , ethnology , philosophy , genetics , linguistics , archaeology , malignancy , biology , aesthetics
This article examines changes in Northern Ireland employment law in the last decade, with a view to establishing whether the unions there were handled more gently by government than at national level. It concludes that in 1992 ideological orthodoxy finally overwhelmed any feeling of benignity which may have survived from an earlier period.