Alan Fox (sociologist)

Alan Fox ( born January 23, 1920 in London, † 26 June 2002) was a British industrial relations expert and industrial sociologist.

Life

Fox grew up in London's East End, and worked from the age of 14 in a film camera factory. During the war he was employed in the Air Force as a photographer.

After the war he was admitted from Ruskin College, Oxford to study, where he graduated with a degree in public administration. Then he studied at Exeter College, which he finished with the characteristic of Oxford Financial Statements for Politics, Philosophy and Economics ( PPE). As a scientific research assistant ( Research Fellow ), he began his career at Nuffield College, which made ​​him the Faculty Fellow. 1963 appointed him to the Oxford University for faculty ( Senior Lecturer ) for Industrial Relations Department of Social and Administrative Studies at the

Work

Fox saw himself as a sociologist who studied the management Worker Relations ( Industrial Relations ) from the perspective of pluralism and conflictual interests. One of his most important publications - Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations (1974 ) - is school in the tradition of Durkheim. In this he Labour management system differs according to the analytical categories of "low- trust" - and "high- trust" relationships between the actors, which are applicable to both individual business organizations such as national industrial relations systems.

Along with Hugh Clegg, Allan Flanders and others, he was one of the influential Oxford School of Industrial Relations at Nuffield College, as a left-liberal pluralists in the 1960s, a central role in the reform policy of the British Labour governments to implement and redesign of industrial relations played. Among other things, was Fox Industrial Relations Adviser in the established by the government Harold Wilson's incomes policy Prices and Incomes Board National Institution (1965-1971) and author of Expertise - Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology ( Research Paper, 1966) - for the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations ( 1965-68 ). In later years, Fox approached to more radical positions and criticized pluralism because he had the power and ownership relations in society untouched.

Writings

  • Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology. ( Research Paper ), HMSO, London 1966.
  • A Sociology of Work in Industry. Collier - Macmillan, London, 1971.
  • Industrial Relations: A Social Critique of Pluralist Ideology. In: John Child ( ed.): Man and Organization. Allan & Unwin, London 1973, p 185-233.
  • Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations. Faber and Faber, London 1974.
  • History and Heritage: The Social Origins Of Britain's Industrial Relations System. Allan & Unwin, London 1985.
  • You mismanagement. Hutchinson, London 1985.
  • A Very Late Development: An Autobiography. Rowe, Chippenham 1990.

Literature on Alan Fox

Stephen Wood: A Critical Evaluation of Fox's Radic unreality of Industrial Relations Theory. In: Sociology, born 11/1977, Issue 1, pp. 105-125.

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