Allan Flanders
Allan Flanders (27 July 1910 – 29 September 1973) was a British academic, author, and founding member of the Oxford School of Industrial Relations, along with Hugh Clegg, Alan Fox, Lord William McCarthy, Sir George Bain and Otto Kahn-Freund.
[5] After the rise of the Nazis, Flanders left Germany to take over the operations of the ISK British division which was renamed the Socialist Vanguard Group (SVG).
[6] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Flanders wrote on substantive and philosophical matters relating to socialism, workers rights and labour reform, and editorials on contemporary politics in the SVG's publication Socialist Commentary as well as in other reviews.
[9] After working for the Control Commission, he accepted a Whitney Foundation fellowship to study industrial relations in the United States.
[15] After leaving the commission, Flanders was appointed reader of industrial relations at Warwick University in 1971, where he worked until his death on 29 September 1973.
[20] Themes of class struggle, the exploitative nature of capitalism, union militancy, anti-clericalism, opposition to communism and social democracy, and imperialism permeate his work in the 1930s.
Flanders' political activism continued in this time, as he sought to influence foreign policy, and in particular to counter support for the Soviet Union on the British left.
The Fawley plant was a revolutionary subject in England at the time, as the agreements hovered around topics of collective bargaining on labour rights in the UK and the 40-hour work week.
He also notes that job regulation is key in ensuring Britain remains on its trends of full employment in the post-World War II period.
Flanders argues this is especially true of external regulation, which is key in ensuring proper employee-employer relations, but also of trade unions.
His political and intellectual development began with a focus on socialism, so much so that he migrated to Germany to join the ISK and pursue his interest in the topic through learning at the organization's Walkemuhle, or training school at 18, in 1929.
