MANCHESTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SOCIETY PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS 1970-71

Thursday 15 October 1970 5.30pm

Industrial Relations – Is There a System?

E G A Armstrong

Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Manchester Business School

Thursday 19 November 1970, 5.30pm

The Conciliation Service of the DEP

A S Kerr

Chief Conciliation Officer, Department of Employment & Productivity

Thursday 21 January 1971, 5.30pm

Changes in the Industrial Scene

D Basnett

National Industrial Officer, GMWU

Thursday 18 February 1971, 5.30pm

The TUC & Industrial Relations

L Murray

Assistant General Secretary, TUC

Thursday 18 March 1971, 5.30pm

Aspects of Industrial Relations

J Campbell Adamson

Director General, CBI

Thursday 29 April 1971, 5.30pm

The Current Industrial Relations Scene

J P Lowry, Director of Industrial Relations, British Leyland Motor Corporation

Thursday 14 October 1971 5.30pm

Problems of Socialisation in the Common Market

C Henniker-Heaton, CBE

Director, British Textile Employers’ Association

Thursday 18 November 1971 5.30pm

Shop Stewards

Dr J F B Goodman

Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Manchester

Thursday 20 January 1972, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Labour Law & Labour Relations in Britain

Professor K W Wedderburn

Professor of Commercial Law, LSE

Thursday 17 February 1972, 5.30pm

The Industrial Relations Act 1971

G H Doughty

General Secretary, Technical & Supervisory Section of the AUEW

Thursday 16 March 1972, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations at Pilkington’s

D F Pilkington

Personnel & Industrial Relations Director, Pilkington Bros Ltd – with colleagues

Thursday 27 April 1972, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations in the Docks

T O’Leary

National Secretary, Docks & Waterways Group, TGWU

Thursday 12 October 1972 5.30pm

The Practice & Procedures of the National Industrial Relations Court

C R Seaton

Secretary, the National Industrial Relations Court

Thursday 16 November 1972, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations & the Multi-National Company

Moss Evans

National Liaison Secretary, Vehicle…& Engineering Groups, TGWU

Thursday 18 January 1973, 5.30pm

Who Controls Shop Stewards?

J England

Research Associate, Industrial Relations Unit, University of Warwick

Thursday 15 February 1973, 5.30pm

Problems of Pay & Industrial Relations in the Public Sector

A Fisher

General Secretary, NUPE

Thursday 15 March 1973, 5.30pm

The Role of an Employers’ Association

M Bett

Personnel Director, GEC

Thursday 5 May 1973, 5.30pm

Change & Labour Mobility

Dan Gowler

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Manchester Business School

Thursday 11 October 1973 5.30pm

Why Talk About Equal Pay?

Marie Patterson

National Woman Officer, TGWU

Thursday 15 November 1973 5.30pm

Can a prices & Incomes Policy Succeed?

J R Mortimer

Labour Relations Executive, London Transport Executive

Thursday 17 January 1974, 5.30pm

Trends in Collective Bargaining

E Robertson

Industrial Relations Director, CBI

Thursday 14 February 1974, 5.30pm

The Role of Employee Directors in the British Steel Corporation (a) A Management View (b) An Employee Director’s View

G B Forster

Personnel Director

J Kane

Employee Director

Tubes Division, BSC

Thursday 14 March 1974, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations in a Low Trust Society

Alan Fox

Lecturer, Department of Social & Administrative Studies, University of Oxford

Thursday 2 May 1974, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Panaceas & Pragmatism in Industrial Relations

Professor J Eldridge, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow

Thursday 10 October 1974 5.30pm

Company Industrial Relations Policies: Some Considerations

C Gill

Salford University

Thursday 12 November 1974, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations & the Power Struggle within the NUM

S G Vincent

General Secretary, NUM, North Western Area

Thursday 16 January 1975, 5.30pm

Collective Bargaining & Workers’ Control

Dr Richard Hyman

Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick

Thursday 13 February 1975, 5.30pm

Labour, Management & Government

Sir Denis Barnes, KCB, Chairman, Manpower Services Commission

Thursday 13 March 1975, 5.30pm

Current Trends in Industrial Relations

Allan F Blacklaws

Managing Director (Group Services), Scottish & Newcastle Breweries

Thursday 8 May 1975, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Industrial Relations: The International Dimension

Professor B C Roberts

LSE

Thursday 9 October 1975 5.30pm

Sex Discrimination Act: A Trade Union Approach to its Implementation

Pat Turner

National Woman Officer, GMWU

Thursday 13 November 1975 5.30pm

A Constitutional Meaning of Dealing with National Wage Differentials

Lord Wilfred Brown

Formerly of Glacier Metal Company

Thursday 15 January 1976, 5.30pm

Some Issues in ‘Job Design’

Professor Tom Lupton

Manchester Business School – Presidential Address

Thursday 12 February 1976, 5.30pm

The Challenge of Worker Participation

R W Wright

Executive Councillor, AUEW

Thursday 11 March 1976, 5.30pm

European Community & Industrial Relations in Britain

Ivor Roberts

EEC, Brussels

Thursday 6 May 1976, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Dorothy Wedderburn

Director, Industrial Sociology Unity, Imperial College, London

Thursday 14 October 1976 5.30pm

What’s Going to Happen When Wage Strictures Lose Their Validity?

John Tocher

Divisional Organiser, AUEW

Thursday 18 November 1976, 5.30pm

Third Party Intervention: Conciliation & Arbitration – Their Place in Industrial Relations

Professor John Wood

University of Sheffield

Thursday 13 January 1977, 5.30pm

Organising Managers

Roy Grantham

General Secretary, APEX

Thursday 17 February 1977, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations in a Large Multi-Plant Company

M Bett

Personnel Director, GEC

Thursday 17 March 1977, 5.30pm

Processes of Reform in Industrial Relations

John Purcell

Lecturer in IR

Guy Harkin

Research Fellow, Manchester Business School

Thursday 5 May 1977, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Why So Much Fuss About Industrial Relations?

Professor Hilde Behrend

University of Edinburgh

Thursday 13 October 1977 5.30pm

Industrial Relations & the Mass Media

John Torode

The Guardian

Thursday 17 November 1977 5.30pm

The Grunwick Affair: A Symposium

Thursday 12 January 1978, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations in ICI

J P M Bell

Personnel Manager (UK), ICI

Thursday 16 February 1978, 5.30pm

Problems of Training Managers in Industrial Relations

Arthur Marsh

Senior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Thursday 16 March 1978, 5.30pm

Heath & Safety in Great Britain: A Look Forward

Bill Simpson

Chairman, Health & Safety Executive

Thursday 4 May 1978, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Job Design

Professor T Lupton

Deputy Director, Manchester Business School

Thursday 12 October 1978, 5.30pm

Women & Industrial Relations

Lady Lockwood, Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission

Thursday 16 November 1978, 5.30pm

Current Industrial Relations: An Appraisal

Eric Batstone, Senior Research Fellow, IRRU, University of Warwick

Thursday 11 January 1979, 5.30pm

The CBI & British Industrial Relations

John Methven, Director General, CBI

Thursday 8 February 1979, 5.30pm

Current Industrial Relations: A Symposium

Thursday 8 March 1979, 5.30pm

Industrial Relations of the 1980s

David Warburton, National Industrial Officer, GMWU

Thursday 10 May 1979, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

Some Economic Aspects of Industrial Democracy

Professor L. C. Hunter, University of Glasgow

Thursday 11 October 1979 5.30pm

Title to be Announced

J D M Bell

Chairman, NORWEB

Thursday 15 November 1979 5.30pm

Has Education Failed the Labour Market?

Jim Craigen

Labour MP (Glasgow Maryhill)

Thursday 17 January 1980, 5.30pm

Current Industrial Relations: A Trade Union View

Jackson Moore

General Secretary, United Road Transport Union

Thursday 14 February 1980, 5.30pm

A Symposium: Current Industrial Relations Scene

Arthur Marsh

Senior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Thursday 13 March 1980, 5.30pm

Title to be Announced

Sir Kenneth Barnes KCB

Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment

Thursday 15 May 1980, 5.30pm

Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture

The Inescapability of Incomes Policy

Lord McCarthy

Nuffield College, Oxford