Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, 1980

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>&nbsp;<br>The Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) series was designed to contribute to a better understanding of the processes which underlie employment relationships by making available for the first time large, systematic and dispassionate evidence about a broad range of industrial relations and employment practices across almost every sector of the economy.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The main areas covered in the survey include: basic establishment data for industrial relations; union organisation; bargaining structure; procedures; payment methods; industrial action; the introduction of technical and organisational change and a variety of other factors.