Union Organization and ActivityJohn Kelly, Paul Willman This, the second book in the innovative The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, features substantial and original research on union strategies. It offers readers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and problems faced by unions in using the new trade union recognition law, and will enrich policy debates with much needed evidence. It covers topics such as:
Written by the key thinkers in the field of industrial relations, it highlights the conditions under which organizing and partnership are likely to appeal to union members and employers and thus it has important policy implications for all parties concerned with industrial relations; unions, employers and governments. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Agency action and outcomes | 4 |
The book | 5 |
Union mobilization and employer countermobilization in the statutory recognition process | 7 |
Method | 9 |
Employer intervention in the statutory procedure | 12 |
Employer behaviour in the workplace | 16 |
Union organizing | 21 |
Public sector modernization | 96 |
Union responses to public service restructuring | 98 |
Conclusions | 107 |
Labourmanagement partnership in the UK public sector | 110 |
settings procedures and questions | 112 |
Results | 116 |
Partnership and industrial relations | 123 |
Discussion and conclusions | 126 |
Conclusions | 29 |
Union organizing | 32 |
Mobilization theory | 33 |
Method | 34 |
organizing research workers | 35 |
organizing in a marketing agency callcentre | 38 |
organizing Amazon warehouse workers | 44 |
Conclusions | 49 |
Equity and representation in the new economy | 51 |
The new economy social and gender divisions | 52 |
reregulation and deregulation | 53 |
Brighton and Hove | 55 |
Conclusion | 70 |
Structuring unions The administrative rationality of collective action | 73 |
The shape of things | 74 |
Reactions to membership loss | 76 |
Organizational issues | 80 |
revitalization? | 86 |
Public service unionism in a restructured public sector Challenges and prospects | 89 |
Public service trade unionism | 91 |
WERS and the public sector | 93 |
The end of the affair? The decline in employers propensity to unionize | 129 |
Determinants of union presence | 130 |
Theory | 132 |
What has happened to voice regimes? | 136 |
compositional change or employer choice? | 139 |
What do unions have to do to persuade nonunion employers to choose union voice? | 141 |
Conclusions | 144 |
Appendix | 146 |
Beyond New Unionism | 150 |
Unions today | 151 |
New Unionism | 153 |
Breaking out | 157 |
Beyond the workplace | 159 |
Employers | 160 |
Government | 161 |
Conclusions | 162 |
Conclusions | 164 |
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