Trade Union Merger Strategies: Purpose, Process, and Performance

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OUP Oxford, May 22, 2008 - Business & Economics - 295 pages
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Contents

Nature and Purpose of the Study
1
Union Strategies in Context
29
Transfer Strategies
77
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About the author (2008)

Roger Undy is an Emeritus Reader and Emeritus Fellow, respectively, of the Saïd Business School and Templeton College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on trade unions and industrial relations, including four books and over 50 articles. His last book Managing the Unions (1996, OUP), was included in Princeton University's 'distinguished books' in industrial relations and labour economics 1997.Roger studied at Ruskin College, Oxford on a TUC Scholarship and at Wadham College, Oxford on a State Scholarship, after working as a skilled maintenance fitter in Nottingham. He has acted as occasional consultant to a number of unions and is presently Vice-President of the Oxford branch of the University and College Union. In 1995-7 he co-directed a programme 'Preparing for the Management of Change in Government', for the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet and was a member of two related'Implementation Groups' planning the National Minimum Wage and changes in Employment Legislation.