All Outputs (8)

The Sea Change in UK Strike Statistics, Implications for Public Policy, and Misrepresentation of the 2022–2023 Strike Surge (2025)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2025). The Sea Change in UK Strike Statistics, Implications for Public Policy, and Misrepresentation of the 2022–2023 Strike Surge. Industrial Relations Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12474

The UK state has collected data on strike activity for over a century, to inform public policy on industrial relations. This involved creating and maintaining a consistent and reliable data set, despite inevitable limitations and funding pressures. Y... Read More about The Sea Change in UK Strike Statistics, Implications for Public Policy, and Misrepresentation of the 2022–2023 Strike Surge.

Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability (2024)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D., & Cao, X. (2024). Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability. Employee Relations, https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-09-2023-0486

Purpose
This study investigates the origins and elaboration of the managerial “unitary” frame of reference associated with Alan Fox, focusing on unionised firms: the industrial relations context, intellectual roots, elaboration, adaptation by other... Read More about Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability.

The British Printers’ 40-Hour-Week Strike of 1959: Background, Dispute, and Aftermath (2023)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D., Roe, A., & Telford, J. (2023). The British Printers’ 40-Hour-Week Strike of 1959: Background, Dispute, and Aftermath. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), 3-41. https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2023.44.2

The 1959 printing workers’ strike for the 40-hour week led to them winning that iconic demand which then spread to other manual workers. This success was all the more remarkable as the printing industry was riven by union ‘wage autonomy’ and craft di... Read More about The British Printers’ 40-Hour-Week Strike of 1959: Background, Dispute, and Aftermath.

Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught (2021)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2021). Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(6), 479-501. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12349

The 2016 Trade Union Act (TUA) added ‘draconian’ restrictions to the already tortuous postal balloting regime for holding lawful strikes. The government predicted that 29–35% of ballots would lose. Using data from trade union returns to the Certifica... Read More about Strike ballots under the 2016 Trade Union Act: Unions mobilise to counter the latest legal onslaught.

The Industrial Relations of In Place of Strife (1969): The Search for Sanctions through the Prism of Key Industrial Disputes (2021)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2021). The Industrial Relations of In Place of Strife (1969): The Search for Sanctions through the Prism of Key Industrial Disputes. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 42(1), 145-178. https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2021.42.6

The 1969 White Paper In Place of Strife was the Labour government’s response to the 1968 Donovan Report. Its most contested proposals were three penal clauses, where fines could be imposed: against unions for refusing to ballot in certain official st... Read More about The Industrial Relations of In Place of Strife (1969): The Search for Sanctions through the Prism of Key Industrial Disputes.

Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition (2020)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, O., & Lyddon, D. (2020). Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition. Industrial Relations Journal, 51(1-2), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12282

Before the debt crisis of 2010 forced Greece into almost permanent austerity, its hotel workers enjoyed wages and conditions (through a sector collective agreement) similar to those in other economic sectors. This was against the international trend... Read More about Deregulation and institutional conversion in the Greek hotel industry: an employment relations model in transition.

The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014 (2015)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D. (2015). The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014. Employee Relations, 37(6), 733-745. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-05-2015-0084

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strike activity in the UK over the last 50 years.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide literature on UK strikes and an extensive trawl of newspaper sour... Read More about The changing pattern of UK strikes, 1964-2014.

A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010 (2015)
Journal Article
Lyddon, D., Cao, X., Meng, Q., & Lu, J. (2015). A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010. Industrial Relations Journal, 46(2), 134 -152. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12089

This strike in a Chinese factory of the Japanese multinational Honda in 2010 received worldwide coverage. A young workforce sustained an on–off strike, with varying numbers of workers involved, for 19 days. Academic interest has focused on prospects... Read More about A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010.