- 270 pages
- English
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About this book
This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics, organization theory, history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions' prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as:
- the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990s
- the way in which unions' own structures inhibit their revitalization
- the apparent failure of unions to thrive in the benign times since 1997
- the extent to which use of the internet will permit unions to break with their tradition of organizing by occupation or industry
- the prospects for real social partnership at national level
- the way in which high performance workplaces in the US give voice to workers without unions.
Written by some of the leading scholars in the area, this book gives an insight into union prospects for the future and has important policy implications for all parties concerned with industrial relations, unions, employers and governments.
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Yes, you can access Trade Unions by Sue Fernie,David Metcalf in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The future of British unions: introduction and conclusions
- 2. Markets, firms and unions: a historical-institutionalist perspective on the future of unions in Britain
- 3. Circling the wagons: endogeneity in union decline
- 4. Social movement theory and union revitalization in Britain
- 5. Trade unions: resurgence or perdition? An economic analysis
- 6. Union responses to public–private partnerships in the National Health Service
- 7. Unions and performance related pay: what chance of a procedural role?
- 8. From the Webbs to the Web: the contribution of the Internet to reviving union fortunes
- 9. The public policy face of trade unionism
- 10. Follow the leader: are British trade unions tracking the US decline?
- 11. Trade unions in Germany: on the road to perdition?
- Appendix: trade union numbers, membership and density
- Bibliography
- Index